Comments on: Blogging tools I’d like to see http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pherstapsasp http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2009 Pherstapsasp Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:20:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2009 Vincent walked into the beeing wilderness with their tv, found the fan, impaled it to about liitle height, plopped generally on the shore and turned on Nickelodeon, where the histerically Odd watchers were on. Shola and the medieval hanging grabbed a spring each, filming them over their shoulders. Vincent walked into the beeing wilderness with their tv, found the fan, impaled it to about liitle height, plopped generally on the shore and turned on Nickelodeon, where the histerically Odd watchers were on. Shola and the medieval hanging grabbed a spring each, filming them over their shoulders.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2008 Dave Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:24:16 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2008 Natalie - Glad to hear I'm not actually any more nuts than you are. That's reassuring! As for de-linking, in my case it has no relationship to whether or not the blog in question links back to VN. But if they stop blogging for more than a few months, they're gone. I usually retain the Bloglines subscription so if they resume blogging, I can restore the link. I think reciprocal linking is dumb. But then again, I don't really care if people like me or not. I suppose that's obvious. Karen - That last phrase does have a nice ring to it! Natalie – Glad to hear I’m not actually any more nuts than you are. That’s reassuring!

As for de-linking, in my case it has no relationship to whether or not the blog in question links back to VN. But if they stop blogging for more than a few months, they’re gone. I usually retain the Bloglines subscription so if they resume blogging, I can restore the link. I think reciprocal linking is dumb. But then again, I don’t really care if people like me or not. I suppose that’s obvious.

Karen – That last phrase does have a nice ring to it!

]]> By: Karen http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2007 Karen Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:22:29 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2007 Heh. Had to come back to tell you that I thought about this several times yesterday afternoon. And about how to quash that instinct makes me want to cry, "Why do you hate me now?!" whenever I'm un-linked. Also, I think the phrase "woe betide" is due for a comeback. Such a nice ring to it: "Woe betide those who would seek to de-friend me!" Heh. Had to come back to tell you that I thought about this several times yesterday afternoon. And about how to quash that instinct makes me want to cry, “Why do you hate me now?!” whenever I’m un-linked.

Also, I think the phrase “woe betide” is due for a comeback. Such a nice ring to it: “Woe betide those who would seek to de-friend me!”

]]> By: Natalie http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2006 Natalie Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:33:40 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2006 Dave, hear-hear to all of that. Especially the option to link to dreams. A lot of my dreams are now blog posts that I'm sure I've actually done (but didn't) when I wake up, and all sorts of techy stuff I'm sure really took place. I wonder if there should be a survey of bloggers dreams and how they relate to blogging? About de-linking: sometimes I remove a link, not out of de-friendliness but because someone hasn't been posting for a long time, or they're mainly blogging about things I'm not really interested in. You're right though, there should be some system to tell people why one is de-linking or being de-linked. Dave, hear-hear to all of that. Especially the option to link to dreams. A lot of my dreams are now blog posts that I’m sure I’ve actually done (but didn’t) when I wake up, and all sorts of techy stuff I’m sure really took place. I wonder if there should be a survey of bloggers dreams and how they relate to blogging?
About de-linking: sometimes I remove a link, not out of de-friendliness but because someone hasn’t been posting for a long time, or they’re mainly blogging about things I’m not really interested in. You’re right though, there should be some system to tell people why one is de-linking or being de-linked.

]]> By: Heraclitean Fire » Links http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2005 Heraclitean Fire » Links Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:19:30 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2005 [...] Via Negativa » Blogging tools I'd like to see (tags: blogs) [...] [...] Via Negativa » Blogging tools I’d like to see (tags: blogs) [...]

]]> By: Larry Ayers http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2004 Larry Ayers Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:34:50 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2004 "Blogs should come outfitted not with hit counters but with actual counters, like diners..." You just tossed that one off in a comment on comments, Dave, but the idea deserves development. Yet more blurring of the net/life boundaries... “Blogs should come outfitted not with hit counters but with actual counters, like diners…”

You just tossed that one off in a comment on comments, Dave, but the idea deserves development. Yet more blurring of the net/life boundaries…

]]> By: Brenda http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2003 Brenda Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:41:46 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2003 Whoot! Not knowing that which we speak of, a sort of blindness (Daddy Derrida approves), with ethical tears (he says tears are ethical) that obscure or alternatively reveal the truth... already I like your TOS, Mr. Via Negativa. Whoot! Not knowing that which we speak of, a sort of blindness (Daddy Derrida approves), with ethical tears (he says tears are ethical) that obscure or alternatively reveal the truth… already I like your TOS, Mr. Via Negativa.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2002 Dave Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:27:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2002 David - Thanks for putting that in perspective. I've only read one Gibson novel, <em>Neuromancer</em>. Interesting if not especially enjoyable. SB - <em>Of course</em> we want to know about your cats! All I';m saying is that blogging about things that don't force one to get out of one's chair shouldn't win one extra points. I realize that for a disabled person, there may not be too many options. But there's still book reviews, record reviews, etc. I do feel we bloggers ought to providing new content of lasting value, from time to time at least. (Obviously, you do that with your poems, among other things.) David – Thanks for putting that in perspective. I’ve only read one Gibson novel, Neuromancer. Interesting if not especially enjoyable.

SB – Of course we want to know about your cats! All I’;m saying is that blogging about things that don’t force one to get out of one’s chair shouldn’t win one extra points. I realize that for a disabled person, there may not be too many options. But there’s still book reviews, record reviews, etc. I do feel we bloggers ought to providing new content of lasting value, from time to time at least. (Obviously, you do that with your poems, among other things.)

]]> By: SB http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2001 SB Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:54:45 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2001 What??! You don't want to know about my cats?! What??! You don’t want to know about my cats?!

]]> By: David Harmon http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2000 David Harmon Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:41:14 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/18/blogging-tools-id-like-to-see/#comment-2000 "I'm trying to remember: was it H. G. Well's The Time Machine where the protagonist wakes up clutching some memento from his dream?" Actually, I heard a similar story in person, back when I was hanging out with Neo-Pagans. I'm sure the idea's shown up in myth once or twice, and it certainly has in modern fiction. And yeah, Gibson's cyberspace is a direct steal from the traditions of the "astral plane". This becomes more obvious with _Count_Zero_ and later books. (Vernor Vinge did it earlier and better in _True_Names_) “I’m trying to remember: was it H. G. Well’s The Time Machine where the protagonist wakes up clutching some memento from his dream?”

Actually, I heard a similar story in person, back when I was hanging out with Neo-Pagans. I’m sure the idea’s shown up in myth once or twice, and it certainly has in modern fiction.

And yeah, Gibson’s cyberspace is a direct steal from the traditions of the “astral plane”. This becomes more obvious with _Count_Zero_ and later books. (Vernor Vinge did it earlier and better in _True_Names_)

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