Memetics Experiment: It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it. A memetics experiment — pass it along. Life in the Aggregator. An Experiment: Life in the Aggregator. How far can it travel?  Please play by passing it along, including all source links... [jenett.radio] I'm willing to play [McGee's Musings] There we... (Memes)

Reports of the Death of Publishing Greatly Exaggerated: Don Park responds to Ray Ozzie's obituary for publishing, saying "Publishing is not dead." I would tend to agree. Publishing is definitely sick, buffeted by unfamiliar pressures, in disarray, due for some changes, racing to keep up with technology changes, slow to adopt technology. Publishing is many things. (I feel mildly... (Memes)

Tweney Understanding Weblogs: Dylan Tweney has summarized some of the recent thinking on weblogs (overlapping with many of the recent links posted here) in an article in which he also discusses realizing the personal knowledge-management benefits of keeping a weblog: In other words, I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for... (Best Practices)

Getting Ready for a Partial Move: Andrew Bayer was hassling me about not having set up radiofreeblogistan.com yet, but hey, my sysadmin is a friend, we barter services, he's been busy. So I spent a little time reading up on httpd.conf and I set up the VirtualHost entries for that domain and a few other pending domains.... (Salon Bloggers)

Philosophy Blogs?: Was visiting some friends visiting in San Francisco last night. Catching up on each other's doings, we naturally got into a discussion of blogs (almost derailed by jokes about how funny the words sound). One, an old philosophy buddy from my undergraduate years (he's now a professor at Ohio State) said... (Weblog Concepts)

John Robb Responds to Shirky on Scaling: Robb makes the case that weblogs will (and do) scale more effectively than discussion groups: Too much input is exactly the reason that discussion groups can't scale. A serial thread on a topic with a million contributors swamps a discussion. As a reader, I can't find the good posts in massive... (Memes)