Sat, April 3, 2004
Looking Around—10:19 AM
Yipes! Only one new article this week. Sorry, kids. But I haven't been completely neglectful. Mini-rants on RIAA, Letterman, Disney, all excellent. And, lately, I've been commenting like a maniac on other sites. Looking for more of My Take On Everything? Here's what I've been saying on sites with readerships above the single-digit range...
Lakes, RIAA, Thelma [Tidball Rodeo]
Jeff Tidball has made the bold choice of not publishing an archive of his entries, so you have to look fast and check back often. I'm also prevented from linking to individual entries, but the three I mentioned have erudite comments from me, and you should check out the Banzai one also, because apparently I've become a common noun, just like TiVo, Coke, and Scotch tape. It feels good!
Update: As mentioned in the comments, His Tidballness has graced us with permanent (for now) links to archive material: Lakes, RIAA, Thelma, Banzai. Ancient comments didn't survive the redesign, so my wisdom is lost to the ages.
This is a website [What Do I Know]
I'm less of a frenzied devotee of What Do I Know than I was when I first started reading it, but Todd makes a terrific argument for why I don't have to call this a blog if I don't want to, and brings up interesting issues relating to why I wouldn't want to. It hit close to home for me because of the pathological fear of blogs that I've seen expressed by this site's readers, and as usual I blame the media. When people make a blog sound like something special and different, it gives off an exclusionary vibe and it sets readers on edge. To me, the difference between this section of the site and the longer-form columns is that it's updated more frequently and I put more links right in the text. Is that really so scary?
Jeff Tidball — Mon, 4/5/04 12:37pm
The decision to leave archives unpublished was originally a cowardly one – I know there are typos and a whole range of lazy thought lurking in old posts, so the idea was to limit the amount of text with the potential to embarrass me at any given time.
I do wish that decision was compatible with the option to link to individual entries. Perhaps when (if) I get around to a site retrofit, I'll publish permalink URLs while continuing to leave out a formal archive.