Journo vs. Blogger: are we STILL having this argument?: Scott Rosenberg attended O'Reilly's Emerging Techology Conference, coming away with another journalism versus blogging experience; Scott thought we were over this false dichotomy. Jeepers. I really thought we'd all moved on, too. On the otherhand, there's still fallout from the Washington Post's so-called ombudsman's initial interactions with the blogosphere. She was... ()

Almost nanofamous: I was playing around with some of the implementations of Steven Johnson's "googleshare" concept (What's xian's googleshare of 'blogistan', 'mediajunkie', 'nanofame') and I found I had to exclude a word (starts with nanot--) to avoid references to a nanotech research site called NanoFAME and get a more meaningful measurement. The good... (Nanopublishing)

Kinja is alpha testing: I spy in my referrer logs with my little eye an incoming link from alpha. kinja. com/ user/ nick. You may recall that Kinja (née Lafayette) is Gawker Media's "blog of all blogs" projects headed up by Meg Hourihan. They must be getting close to having something useful to decloak. I... (Nanopublishing)

I thought I knew Victoria's: I thought I knew Victoria's secret. I always figured Victoria's secret was that she was a guy. According to What is Victoria's Secret? the answer is bulimia.... (Miscellany)

Revolution is not an AOL keyword: After Gil Scott-Heron. Or, as my friend Non likes to call him, Lung Scott-Egret (or the variant B and I like: Lung Pict-Egret). From the UC Berkeley J-School's intellectual property weblog comes Revolution is not an AOL keyword.... (Miscellany)

Where is Glenn?: Instapundit has his doubts about the identify of Raed. His comments prompted me to echo him, though: These are very interesting posts, but the question isn't so much is Glenn real, or in Tennessee. It's whether he's really an ordinary American as he claims, or something else (conceivably, on either side).... (Politics)

Weblogs.com ping-response messages: So, as I mentioned a while back, Textpattern reports on what happens when you ping Weblogs.com. Ordinarily, you see this message: Article posted Weblogs.com says: Thanks for the ping. We checked and found that the “x-ism” weblog has changed, so it will appear in changes.xml next time it is updated. (The... (Weblog Concepts)

Graceful spaz. something something: Graceful spaz. something something... (Miscellany)

Just to annoy weblogs.com. I’m: Just to annoy weblogs.com. I’m posting again in under five minutes, specifically to generate the error message.... (Miscellany)

You know you\'re listening to: You know you\'re listening to Ween when.... You type “steel cut dwarfs” onto your grocery shopping list.... (Miscellany)

Wish for a good ending: This was in my inbox this morning: Subject: in Erbil for an hour I'm back to Erbil city since half an hour ago to check out on the house, we are now in a small village in the mountains that is one hour and half far from Erbil.. its a big... (Miscellany)

maybe... when first light ray shows up after the war I will start up a blog: Late last year I had been encouraging Delshad to start a blog, but he has been on the move most of the time since then. Yesterday he wrote from Erbil: Dear Xian, I'm now Erbil and most possibly move to some village or town far from here... I really don't like... (Miscellany)

Evacuating via Erbil: Here's the message I got from Delshad on Tuesday, sent to all his online friends: Dear friends, This is just a very short note to tell you that I'm now leaving back to Erbil where then I will go with the family to some village - seems the war is already... (Miscellany)

Occasional dispatches from Iraq: Long story short, I have a friend in Iraq named Delshad. He is a Kurd and he lives in northern Iraq, in the northern no-fly zone. Last fall he was trying to get out of the country, but only got as far as Syria and then returned. With the war on,... (Salon Bloggers)