The word “blog” is a portmanteau term for Web log or Weblog. In 1997 Jorn Barger, the keeper of Robot Wisdom, a Web site full of writings about James Joyce, artificial intelligence, and Judaism as racism (he’s reputedly a racist himself), coined the word “Weblog.” In 1999 Peter Merholz, the author of a Weblog called Peterme, split it in two like this?”We blog”?creating a word that could serve as either noun or verb. “Blog” was born.
Sarah Boxer in The New York Review of Books
They’re back, such as they are, so the quest for more of them can begin in earnest.
The excellent Andrea Mignolo , deviser of the Oulipo theme, is blameless. It’s other people’s themes leaving small black holes in the database. Friends, I have been to the database and looked upon it and returned.
Quello che non mi uccide mi fortifica – it sounds almost sensible in Italian.
We would be embarrassed here at the powerhouse Wordability tech centre except that (a) we are past the age of embarrassment and (b) techos don’t embarrass: they blame. We have SOSd the designer via the interesting Get Satisfaction website
Young women should have nothing whatsoever to do with prostate cancer.
This blog is now in its second year, so it’s high time it sported a decent set of links. Those already there are fine; what’s missing, rather conspicuously, are blogs. But how to select those when your own blog is a miscellany and your Web-reading desultory?
New bloggers are always told to stake out a subject area and stay inside it. You become identified with a subject and a point-of-view; like-minded people link to you, and you to them, and everybody blogs happily ever after in their little patch of net. This set-up makes it hard for miscellaneous minds. Continue reading »
The effect of updating the Tarski theme was to break the blog. Until I fix whatever’s wrong, this theme – Blogtxt – will do. For my fellow bloggers: Tarski is (I’m assured) technically excellent, very well-supported and customisable. On the downside, its CSS is rather complex, so to tweak its appearance can take some time, trial and error.
The CSS for Blogtxt is by design about as simple as CSS gets. It follows that I won’t be able to resist playing with it. Hark! do you hear the sound of breaking links?