Category: Blogging

Let me, then, share Cat Head Theatre’s rendition of Hamlet:

Ah, YouTube, gracious provider of content for the contentedly otherwise contentless.

Well, the Kansas City Star has once again snipped yours truly for its editorial page.

They excerpt this post as follows:

Roger that, good buddy
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it until I’m proven otherwise: Blogs are CB radio with permalinks. And we know how much CB changed the face of citizen media in the 1970s. It spawned a number of books, three “Smokey and the Bandit” movies and “Convoy.” Some of its slang lives on, but you don’t see many cars with the antennae on their roofs anymore, do you?

I’d like to think I was pointing out that bloggers can, and sometimes do, find themselves more important than they are in mass culture.

Perry Mays takes it seriously.

Lieberman, ‘Snakes’ and the seductive mythology of the blogosphere:

If ever America needed a wake-up call about the mythology of blogging, we got it this month.

On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary, a triumph widely credited to the rah-rah racket produced by pro-Lamont armies stationed along the Internet.

Indeed, the bloggers had scored big. They had helped vault a local politician to national prominence and cemented the Iraq war as Issue No. 1 in the congressional elections. Not a bad day.

But their victory was short-lived. Even before the primary, Lieberman announced that, should he lose, he’d still run in November as an independent. This electoral chutzpah effectively rope-a-doped the bloggers and recharged the senator’s fabled Joe-mentum. Lieberman’s still the man to beat in the general election.

If this wasn’t enough to drain the effervescence from the blogger bubbly, America’s noisy Web wags were dealt an even more sobering blow 10 days later when Snakes on a Plane opened nationwide to a decidedly flat $15.3 million box office.

Before its premiere, Snakes had been the latest blogger darling, as swarms of online film geeks prematurely crowned it the summer’s big sleeper. This hyperventilating fan base even convinced Snakes’ distributor, New Line Cinema, to up the movie’s rating to R, to ensure a gorier, more venomous snake fest.

But all that clapping and yapping couldn’t put enough fannies in the seats. Ticket sales for Snakes’ debut barely topped those of Talladega Nights, which was already in its third week.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it until I’m proven otherwise: blogs are CB radio with permalinks.

And we know how much CB changed the face of citizen media in the 1970s. It spawned a number of books, three Smokey and the Bandit movies, and Convoy. Some of its slang lives on, but you don’t see many cars with the antennae on their roofs any more, do you?

MfBJN: The #4 source on the Internet for worst kind of popular tripe.

But we’re improving every day in our quest to be your best source for the worst kind of popular tripe.

Robert B. Parker’s "blog" on Amazon.com.

One post with 61 comments from readers. I cannot fault him for not keeping up with it; blogs are facile mechanisms for writers who aren’t doing five pages a day, no more, no less, for profit.

Forget this minor league blogging stuff; Damn Interesting is looking to bolster its roster.

I am going to take my cuts before the scouts, believe you me. Or believe me you. However those tricky direct object/indirect object relationships work out, which is typically badly and end with much breaking of dishes.

Michelle Malkin: HELP THE SWEATER KITTENZ

The only way that could be a better headline would be if it was FREE THE SWEATER KITTENZ

Sean Hackbarth at The American Mind says:

A minor pet peeve of mine is being called only by my first name when I’m mentioned with my weblog….

I agree with Sean. Dammit, you people, I have a middle initial. J. It’s right there between The Brian and the Noggle in my name. How can I make my pretentiousness known if I don’t enforce proper branding, and how will people tell me apart from the other famous Brian Noggles of the world unless the J. is present?

If you cannot link me right, I insist you not link me at all. Which, I believe, is actually much of the blogosphere’s current policy.

Has anyone ever noticed that status.blogger.com tends to have a post describing a problem after they’ve fixed the problem?

Kevin McGehee: Karaoke Superstar!

No one does a better version of Dido’s “White Flag”. He sings it with such emotion that one thinks that perhaps he’s experienced profound loss, such as the lack of a recent Instalanche to bolster his traffic numbers. Unlike some of us.

Michelle Catalano, formerly of A Small Victory, is blogging about big 1970s cars and punk music at Faster Than The World. Update your bookmarks and buy misspelled domain names as appropriate.

Oh, yeah?

McGehee’s right. His new self-portrait does make him look like a Klingon:

A cross-dressing Klingon at that.

Check it out….MfBJN is linked top left on the forthcoming Kansas City Star KC Buzz Blog!

Woo!

Damn Interesting, a blog of articles about, well, interesting things.

I don’t know that I’ve ever tried to read a blog’s complete archives before.

I know, over the last week I’ve blogged less than the retired Michelle Catalano, but we’ve moved, and I have been too busy trying not to have to sort my ton of books to set up an actual office and/or Internet connection.

Since that plot has obviously failed, I guess I will get back to blogging soon.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s blog.

(Link seen on Ace of Spades HQ.)