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Posts about the nature of blogging.
Newsflash: I am a Guy
April 27th, 2007 | 2 Comments
Andrew Sullivan asks if he blogs like a girl. Apparently, he does not.
However, I apparently blog like a guy.
It’s a Redesign!
June 28th, 2006 | 3 Comments
To make a long story short, Google really, really, REALLY didn’t like the crazy URL scheme that pMachine had. Nonsensical query strings + different URLs for the same content = search engine disaster. Plus I wanted to fix some of my wonky design choices from the old layout. Namely the 800×600 resolution unfriendliness as well as some less-than-ideal markup.
I’ll also be slowly bringing over some content—book and movie reviews—from another site that I had that wasn’t getting much (ok, any) traffic, since the content fits well here. Look for it to pop up in the archives. I may also be reviving some of the pre-pMachine entries (yes, I still have them all) and re-posting them. Going through them has been kind of a trip; most of that material is ancient history by pretty much any life metric.
The Nature of Blogging, II
June 13th, 2006 | No Comments
So I’ve been thinking some more about the nature of blogging. The common analogy is that a blog is like someone’s home, and reading a blog is like being a guest in someone’s home and thus you should behave accordingly, meaning that anything the blog author wants to say is sacrosanct, and if you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all.
I think the analogy is pretty much a complete failure.
