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That's what you are!! Reading each others blogs, writing your own, linking to each others blogs, writing about each others blogs, linking each others links to your blogs, writing about blog linking... bah!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

to quote one of the prl motos: "when we all have blog we wont have to communicate with each other anymore."

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

colin, you forgot "starting threads about them"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

and "replying to threads about them"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(nb: i think blogs are pretty lame/saturated at this point, btw.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

In the future, every person will have a blog. Then what? I feel sorry for the aliens when they finally arrive and pick over the bones of our culture, what are they going to make of it?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"good lord, they've been invoking this moment in cliches for eons now!"

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

And another ace from Mr Blount.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The was a reason we kept diaries under lock and key in the past, you know. It was because we knew no-one else really cared that much about the ebb and flux of our daily emotions, or what we thought of this or that war.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"just lie back and think of england, dear."

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess, what are you proposing to do to me?!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"nb: i think blogs are pretty lame/saturated at this point, btw"

jess, I'm genuinely curious how you came to this conclusion?

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 23 June 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Blog, a definition:
Whatever their principal purpose, all blogs filter information and archive it in an enduring chronological manner. Because updating is immediate and seamless, the information can be extremely timely. The format also encourages conversation and exchange in ways a static Web site cannot. A blog can have multiple authors, and readers can comment on the posts, ask questions and receive prompt and specific responses.

I think blogs re-capture the early days of the web. For one, it re-instated the usage of links to other sites, something that was lost when big corporations and big brands took over the net. So when somebody says that blogging is crap, he says that the web is crap.

ILX is a blog of sorts, and far better in some aspects than any singular blog, ILX is a multi-author blog.

The trackback feature:

Backlinking crudely approximates the two-way linking feature of an early hypertext system invented by Ted Nelson called Xanadu. Nelson coined the term Hypertext—the linking of information and a system for viewing it—in 1963 (its actual invention is thought to be by Vannevar BushD in 1945), but his project was hampered by the technology of the time as well as Nelson's noble flaw: a passion for maximum efficiency and correctness. Nelson spent most of his life developing an impressively overengineered system that would have been perfect if only his team had the strength to complete it, and Xanadu's glory was stolen from under its feet by a much quicker and dirtier system invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the late 1980s: the World Wide Web. (Ted's rather bitter about this, understandably.)

What blogging does with the trackback feature cannot be done by the web as we know it, so blogspace is more advanced than the html-web.

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Monday, 23 June 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

So it's true, blogs really are like assholes

― Dan I., Monday, 23 June 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Sore and brown?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 June 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and...

Yay!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 June 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The blog format PLUS music writing is a great fit - it's just fanzine culture but far far less work. I don't read any non-music ones any more.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 23 June 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

quite liked the k-punk/blissblog/skykicking exchange re d&g, influence, deterritorialisation, foxx, sylvian, etc; but I confess I had to collate it & print it out (in tiny tiny type) before I could wade through it.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Monday, 23 June 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i gave up blogging to spend more hours down the pub talking rubbish about stuff to other people

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Monday, 23 June 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

phil, basically: too many, not enough ones i want to read. simple, really. gut reaction.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(should read: "too many to keep up with")

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Tip bookmark or add this link into your blog template:

Alex's watchlist [from close your eyes: http://musik.antville.org/ ]
http://freshblogs.com/farm/index.cgi?uid=300&wid=350

[it informs which music weblogs have been updated recently, in order]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

how can blogs become saturated?? that's like proclaiming we are on the verge of moving into the most barren time for pop radio since 1996! oh wait!

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Monday, 23 June 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

chip, do you have a blog? move over heronbone!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

jess is busy crafting the next new thing in his olympia style lab with partner momus

(hi jess!)

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 23 June 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I knew of some good movie blog I could read. Maybe I should just start one.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 23 June 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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