Sunday, June 15, 2003
An emergency backup, since Dawn uses her ‘Delete’ key like it was a vibrator and this was Friday nig
Well, if you read this blog, you probably saw “A Tale Of Two Moxies.” Dawn Olsen had much to do with the brouhaha, and she’s got a delightfully horrible entry up today.
Go for the drama, but stay for the run-on sentences and absolutely criminal butchering of the English language!
I’m saving a comment I left for her in my blog, because she’s delete-happy, and has a tendency to try to hide any negative comments made about her.
Aren’t blog wars fun? Anyhoo...my comment:
I must have missed that part of your admission of “humanness.”
By the way...your grammar is horrid, your sentence structure is bordering on criminal and your presentation in general is about halfway to illiterate. Please don’t spend so much time insulting others until you clean your own house.
As for being something? You’re just another big mouth with a blog. I used to be a net.personality (look it up)...I have traveled in circles you would probably like to be in, but you know what?
I DON’T TELL ANYONE.
It’s called class. Get some.
*UPDATE: As expected, Dawn removed all comments from her post. At least she’s consistently hypocritical.
Posted by JimK at 03:00 AM on June 15, 2003
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Sunday, May 04, 2003
A question for all bloggers
I’m considering starting a new business. Now, the web hosting market is saturated. However, ballsy web hosts who are willing to protect *you* are in short supply, and the recent brouhaha over Boycott Hollywood has reignited an idea I had earlier this year.
What I want is to know if there is interest out there, because I am flat broke and this would be risky for me to start up.
I am considering starting a web hosting company. The server(s) would be state-of-the-art, Red Hat Linux with Plesk control panels for all and generous bandwidth allotments, all the bells and whistles. The kicker is, I will protect you from shutdown.
I will not harbor criminal activity, warez, etc. I won’t allow child porn. What I want to do is focus on bloggers and political activism sites like Boycott Hollywood. I would ESPECIALLY like to specialize in getting people off Blogger. I have done this for myself and for Lee at Right Thinking, and it’s fairly easy to set up a searchable archive so you don’t have to re-enter months or years of Blogger posts.
Also, I am intimately familiar with the needs of bloggers, and have set up a number of blogs of my own and for others. I have been designing websites since 1995 and I worked for ISPs and design companies, and now do things for myself from home. I am available for support more hours of the day than I care to admit, and I would set up a live chat client that would allow people to know when I am available and when I am not.
My pledge will be simple: I will not shut you down on any threat of a lawsuit. I will not regulate your content. If the lawyers come a’knockin, I will “accidentally” lose all your personal information with one click of the delete key.
In short, I will be a human digital shield, only I won’t run away when they start shooting.
Well, that’s my idea. I’m interested in knowing if there is support out there for this? I would need about 15-20 clients to start in order not to go broke trying it. I guess it’s all come down to this:
Whattya think?
P.S. - If you;re a lawyer and you’d like to weigh in with some free friendly advice that *isn’t* legal advice (I know the drill!) then please, weigh in.
Posted by JimK at 08:15 PM on May 04, 2003
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Friday, May 02, 2003
Check your referrers
If you run a website that allows you to access log files, or you’re adept enough to put up some php or javascript code that will show you the people who link into your site...look therough there every now and again. I have found some really cool blogs based on nothing but the list of the last 50 referrers I have way down there to the right.
That reminds me: I use a piece of software called NewzCrawler to collect the XML/RSS feeds from tons of different sites into one easy to check location. It also does web pages, so I can download Blogger and LiveJournal-based sites and read them at my leisure. It’s for the PC, but Mac folks can use NetNewsWire to do the same thing. It makes it so much easier to read a lot of sites very quickly.
Posted by JimK at 10:31 PM on May 02, 2003
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The blogosphere keeps us healthy
News flash: watching the set keeps you turned on to life
Even if they were not joiners, their armchair engagement with the wider world appeared to be protective. They experienced a psychological connection with others.
Now, I know this story is about a small community in Australia, but I believe the same holds true no matter where you’re from, and it’s especially true in the blog world. I belong to a very small blog circle, but I feel connected to each person. I read many, many blogs every day, and I wouldn’t consider myself a member of their “blog family,” but I still feel connected and interested in what they are doing. I also have a circle of real-world friends, all of whom I met on-line, that I keep track of and talk to.
All of this comes because I spend an inordinate amount of time on reading news and opinion sites. Hell, the whole reason I met my wife is because I was looking for news and info on my then-favorite band, and she was in the Usenet group I found. And that was way before it became trendy, dammit, we got together in 1995 off an Internet meeting. :)
Anyway, I believe that the blog circles that form over discussing current events are evidence that support this theory. People staying on top of news, and putting their opinions about said news out there, are reaching out for others to participate in the process, and it’s working. Blogging is clearly the killer app of 2002-2003. Why?
Because it connects us. The news may be dark and dreary, but the people we meet sure aren’t.
Posted by JimK at 08:48 PM on May 02, 2003
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Friday, November 29, 2002
Spend.
I’m with this plan...Michele has the right idea.
I plan to spend a little money I don’t have just to stick it to Adbusters. Our economy is built on the notion that someone makes stuff, someone sells stuff and I buy that stuff, and I’m not putting someone out of a job for some misguided ideal.
Buy something.
Posted by JimK at 11:03 PM on November 29, 2002
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Design advice
Mrs. du Toit has a nice post about usability in the blog world. As I get older (I’m only 32, but my eyes are already starting to back off my formerly eagle-eyed vision) these kinds of issues become more and more inportant on the web.
Police yourselves, fellow bloggers.
Posted by JimK at 10:57 PM on November 29, 2002
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Thursday, November 28, 2002
Not the high road, Volokh
This post by Eugene Volokh defines the word disingenuous. ON the surface, it seems that Volokh is condemning the drama surrounding some bloggers and their link/de-link sagas.
In reality, all he’s doing is making his own foray into the dramatic, taking a potshot at someone many of us recognize (he almost quoted her verbatim), and in the end, he’s in the mud with those he’s criticizing.
I respect you, Mr. Volokh...but I don’t respect that post. If you want to make fun of someone or throw an insult, just do it. Don’t pretend you’re taking the high road while you’re trudging through the ditch on the side like the rest of us.
Posted by JimK at 11:17 AM on November 28, 2002
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Sunday, November 24, 2002
Blacklist ‘em
Mitch Berg has a good idea here...let’s start a list of talking heads who need to shut the hell up and disappear into the annals of history.
I would like to add a few names…
Arianna Huffington - for simple being alive.
Sarah Brady - the reason should be empirically obvious.
Chuck Schumer - For having his head up Hilary’s ass clear to his neck.
Al Gore - Dude, you screwed the pooch. Get over it and go get a job, loser.
Posted by JimK at 01:34 AM on November 24, 2002
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Sunday, November 17, 2002
A blog post about blogs
I don’t mean to insult anyone, but why is every blog in the freakin’ world looking exactly the same? I *know* Movable Type comes with more than one template, and Blogger has hundreds. C’mon people, this stuff isn’t hard! Some of you people are professors, pilots, mathematical geniuses...surely you can figure out a little HTML and a style sheet, no?
This is not to say that style counts more than substance. Obviously, the content FAR outweighs the delivery mechanism. But for the love of Mike, don’t you all get sick of the same layout, same colors, same everything?
I offer a challenge to the blogosphere: REDESIGN YOUR BLOGS! Do something that makes your site look a *little* different from everyone else’s. Please?
I’ll give you a dollar.
Posted by JimK at 03:16 AM on November 17, 2002
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