A friend of mine asked me if there are any pot blogs. A quick search found a reference to this Slash-style group weblog at Marijuana.Com and a number of topical blog entries, but that's it.
It seems like a natural for a personal blog. Or maybe a drugs blog in general. Maybe I should have searched for that. I noticed in Dave Winer's excellent list of questions for candidates (everyone should do this and we should all try to interview all the candidates) he asked the "why is marijuana illegal?" question. Again, it seems like there might be some stoned blog-readers out there who would flock to a marijuana blog, if they remembered to bookmark it.
Posted by:
filchyboy at
September 25, 2003 8:47 PM
Thanks, filchyboy.
Yes, Drug WarRant covers the entire drug war, but I certainly spend a lot of time on marijuana. I'll be working on a drug-war-related guide to the Illinois Senate race soon.
Your attention, please:
What is interesting in the blogosphere? Your attention. That was I heard the folks at attentiontrust discuss at a dinner that Niall Kennedy set up, the first night of the Blog Business Summit. First, it was your links: people wanted your links, to build a fan base. Then these were googled,... (Weblog Concepts)
Blogging a yoga conference:
Susan Mernit gave me a head’s up about this wekeend’s YOGA JOURNAL LIVE at ESTES PARK, a conference blog related to The 10th Annual Yoga Journal Colorado Conference (which itself includes a conference-within-a-conference featuring yoga legend Sri B.K.S. Iyengar). The blog is described as “A live conference blog sharing the teaching... (Event blogging)
On this day in 2002
Blogs a half-baked KM solution?:
In Network Computing's BuzzCut column, Mike DeMaria talks about blogs as an improvement over e-mail for project updating but as an imperfect solution, at best, for archiving and retrieving links: Until blog developers address the issues of archive classification and sorting, blogs can't possibly live up to their potential.... (Best Practices)
Technology maddening when it's not:
Technology maddening when it's not liberating. Today Radio, the tool I use to keep Radio Free Blogistan up-to-date is malfunctioning on me, refusing to past the last couple-seven entries. Oddly, you can see them by going to today's archive page but not on the home page.... (Miscellany)
I saw Bonds hit No. 612 the other day:
First time at PacBell Park. Saw the Giants paste the Padres last night with an old friend who happened to be visiting from San Diego. My first time in the new stadium. Pretty cool. It would be even better for a day game, I'm sure. One odd thing is the rule... (Miscellany)
Journalistic ethics, from J.D.'s transcript of the Panel:
In New Media Musings, J.D. Lasica writes: Hadn't realized this, but yesterday OJR published my column on weblogs and journalism — or, more accurately, a partial transcript of the panel at UC Berkeley last week... He quotes an excerpt on journalistic ethics and blogging from Rebecca Blood that I want to... (Weblog Concepts)
They've joined the bleedin' choir invisible:
Pining?. B writes:"The biologists told me that many of these dead fish are very bright and healthy looking, except for the part about them being dead."—Paul Wertz, an information officer with the California Department of [Dead] Fish and Game.... (Miscellany)
Radio driving me nuts today:
I can't figure out what's wrong, but when I look at the home page all I see is the first-draft-with-typo version of my first entry of the day and nothing since. They Events Log appears to show regular uploads and my local versions of the pages are up-to-date, so I don't... ()
No towers in Tony's rearview mirror:
Towers excised from Sopranos' opening credits. I was wondering about this while racing through the Sopranos' season three on VHS (no cable), the shot of the twin towers in Tony's rearview mirror during the popular opening-credits sequence. I assumed they'd take it out or replace it, and Nick Denton has the... (Miscellany)
Man who had sex with:
Man who had sex with underwear-clad dogs forced to flee. It's bad enough the guy dressed up the dogs he molested in bras and panties, but did he have to kill them too?... (Miscellany)
Compendium of weblog resources:
The most useful thing in the aforementioned article was a link to Weblogs Compendium, another good central clearinghouse of blog information and resources, today featuring pointers to useful third-party services such as myMediaList (for adding lists of books, music, and other media to your blog or web page) and blogLinker (for... (Weblog Concepts)
Business blogs in the news again:
Enterpreneur.com publishes a light article called Who Let the Blogs Out?: With a blog, you can answer questions, post business updates, link to similar sites and receive commentary from users. A collaborative company blog could give your employees one place to go to keep up on business happenings, memos and announcements.... (Best Practices)
Stroll through my neighborhood:
An odd referrer led me to Dive into Mark's weblog neighborhood deriver (written in Python). My neighborhood is fairly star-spangled. As usual, I'll chalk this up mostly to generous linkage from Scripting News, along with some recent links to and from megnut and Rebecca's Pocket.... (Weblog Concepts)
Turning data into information:
Charly Z also hepped me to Daniel Danilov's Reflections, where he recently posted a think-piece about how blogs help impose a mental grid on raw data, part of the process the mind uses to turn that data into relevant information: Anyone who complains about blogs being a waste of space or... (Salon Bloggers)
Comment monitor updates via RSS:
Also on the Driver 8 tip, another entry notes that Phil Pearson has "a new version of his comment monitor ... that will update me on new comments on my blog... through the RSS aggregator."... (Salon Bloggers)
The case against (most) weblogs:
Charly Z of Driver 8 tipped me off this morning to a few interesting threads. First is this biting essay called either "Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs!" (according to its top header), "Why I Hate WebLogs" according to its filename, or the punch-pulling "Why I Hate (Personal) Weblogs" used in its... (Memes)
