Blogging

Bloggers Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Journalists

In Blogging, Internet, Journalism, Weblogs on 5 April 2005 with Comments Off

Here’s a fun thing to try: Ask your typical blogger what they think of journalists. “Hacks!” They’ll scream. “Journalism sucks!”
Then tell them about bloggers being treated differently than journalists. “Unfair!” They scream. “We’re journalists, too!”
Try to follow the logic here: Journalism is lame and broken, so bloggers want to be journalists.
With me so far? No? [...]

I am a salty old man

In Blogging, Geek, Photography, Powazek, San Francisco on 2 April 2005 with Comments Off

Heather and I are having much fun moblogging today. She has an excuse - she is participating in 24 in 48: A collection of 24 people posting photos for 48 hours for your enjoyment. Me? I just like to follow the cool kids.
Check our Flickr photostreams: his and hers.

Vote Chawazek!

In Blogging, Internet, Photography, Powazek on 21 March 2005 with Comments Off

You know what never gets old? Shilling for votes. Really. It’s a skill I’ve nurtured over my 10 years making web stuff. I’m still sore I never got in the Top 5% in the mid-90s. The ballot was totally confusing. Most of my votes wound up going to David Siegel.
Case in point: I’m honored that [...]

New: Just a Link

In Blogging, Powazek, Weblogs on 14 February 2005 with Comments Off

A new feature to the ol’ dotcom: Just a Link. Approximately three years after everyone else got one, I’ve added a little sidebar link blog to my site. It’s for quick links. Just little one-liners: A link and a thought. The same thing I said was not “all that revolutionary” five years ago. And, yeah, [...]

Technoratized

In Blogging, Geek, Tags, Technorati on 4 February 2005 with Comments Off

Now that I’ve been working at Technorati long enough for the Kool-Aid to kick in, I decided to trick out my blog a bit with some nifty Technoratiness. Here are the highlights:
1. Search! Google may have this site indexed back to 1997, but it can take weeks for new entries to show up there. If [...]

Searching vs. Browsing

In Blogging, Folksonomy, Tags, Technorati on 19 January 2005 with Comments Off

Or: Why you’re gonna be hearing the word “tag” a lot
Think about these two words for a moment: “Search” and “Browse.” They’re words that are used frequently to describe things we do on computers. But consider their traditional associations:
Browsing is shopping, strolling, flipping through a magazine. Browsing is fun, casual, entertaining.
Searching is mechanical, trial and [...]

The “Kostroversy” Context

In Blogging, Design, Internet on 5 April 2004 with Comments Off

Something interesting happened this weekend. But it’s not interesting for all the reasons it seems interesting at first.
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is a political blogger. He maintains a site called the Daily Kos, where he writes thousands of words a day about Amercian politics, especially Bush and the war in Iraq. His politics are left of [...]