Tony Long Tells It Like It Is
The History Of Blogging
The History Of Blogging
The Loneliness of the Bloggers?
The Globe & Mail ran an article yesterday about Communication professor turned author-cum-blogcritic Michael Keren who is drumming up publicity for his new book by claiming that bloggers are isolated and lonely, living in a virtual reality instead of forming real relationships or helping to change the world:
Bloggers think of themselves as rebels against mainstream [...]
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Samuel Pepys: Blogger
We’re Live
Finally, the move is complete, and we now have a reliable hosting company. DNS is propagating the changes now, so soon everyone will be able to see the swanky new site design.
Along with our old host, I am jettisoning Movable Type in favor of Wordpress. The process I went through to do so can be [...]
Moving
We are moving to a new host, so if things are wonky around here for the next few days (as if they haven’t been wonky for the last week), that is why.
S.N.A.F.U.
Yes, everything has been broken for a while here. The frustrating thing is that there is nothing I can do about it - it is in the (incompetent) hands of my cut-rate hosting company. Lesson learned. As soon as all of this is straightened out I will be moving to somewhere reliable.
So, if things break [...]
Reorganization
Inspired (or should I say chastised?) by these two posts, I have been looking at ye olde blogge with a critical eye, and have decided to make some changes.
I have been guilty of cluttering up my blog, a blog that is supposedly about minimalism and simplicity. Not only are my posts all over the place, [...]
Words or Ideas?
Everyone is talking about how to make money from blogging. There are lists floating around from one “problogging” blog to the next showing all the ways you can make money with your blog. Of course, the purpose of these lists is to get you to click on the affiliate links to all of the great [...]
Finally….
We have an internet connection at home, finally. Currently it isn’t much; definately not the 8MB connection I am paying for, but hopefully they will get that corrected eventually….I am definately learning patience here….
A Statement Of Intention - Part 2
In my earlier Statement Of Intention, I explained a bit about how the newly solidified direction of this site would impact some of the things I had been doing here previously, but it did not really lay out what I thought that direction was.
So, in order to clear the air, so to speak, I want [...]
Balance, Or Meaning?
Okay, I know I have posted about the work/life balance and how I just don’t get it several times already, but I find the whole concept, and all of the ennui surrounding it to be a fantastic window on the modern American psyche that I just can’t help but return to it…
Anyway, I had the [...]
A Statement Of Intention
There has been, from the beginning of this website, an undercurrent - something brewing in the background. Recently, that thing has become larger, more noticeable, more the focus of my blog, and of my life. So as to head off any confusion that my thoughts and ramblings here may cause, I have decided to make [...]
The Linux Myth Dispeller
I am happy to announce the official launch of my second blog, The Linux Myth Dispeller. The official press release is here.
I am excited to not only resurrect the Myth Dispeller, a project I last worked on in 2000, but to be part of the world’s first Linux-only blog network. The other guys in the [...]
On The Importance Of Blogging - Part III
Yesterday I wrote briefly about Julia Kristiva, and her idea of shared codes through which a text is connected to other texts, and on which any reading depends for meaning.
Considering that from the point of view of an author (blog or otherwise), one would assume that the codes she speaks of are the subconcious clues [...]
On The Importance Of Blogging - Part II
Yesterday I wrote, in Part I of this series, that I would expand a little on the idea of applying syntactic and pragmatic weight and structure to private semantics, and how that applies to how I think about blogging.
In many ways, blogging is, as Claude Lévi-Strauss would call it; bricolage, and most bloggers, especially link [...]
On The Importance Of Blogging - Part I
One of the things that has suprised me when comparing this blog to my previous (private, paper) journals, is how much more difficult it is to write a blog entry than it is to write a journal entry. At first I thought that it was a function of having an audience (however small) and wanting [...]
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