See, we aren't a blog.

[Nonentity]

Chaircats, help me find the feed!

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT I AM ASSISTED!

[Jayce]

Not long ago I discovered the beautiful descriptor "e/n blog".

[Nonentity]

It is a mystery!

[Dundee]

http://www.f13.net/xml-rss2.php

But you didn't hear that from me.

[Yegolev]

I read somewhere that the average blog has one reader.

You must have read that on my blog.  It's not really a blog, though, since it predates the word.  It's probably wholly uninteresting to anyone that doesn't enjoy ME as much as I enjoy myself.  Which is pretty much everyone.  Also: main page last updated twelve months ago, I think.  The interesting bits are on the subpages, anyway.

The F13 feed isn't something you just pick up and use like a garden hose.  It's more like a surreptitious IV that was placed into your vein while you slept.  If you find it, heads will roll.  Roll!

[Dundee]

I read somewhere that the average blog has one reader.

You must have read that on my blog.  It's not really a blog, though, since it predates the word.  It's probably wholly uninteresting to anyone that doesn't enjoy ME as much as I enjoy myself.  Which is pretty much everyone.  Also: main page last updated twelve months ago, I think.

It sounds like a real blog.

[Sunbury]

Speaking of Blogs, I was Googling for work-at-home/online writing jobs for my gf.


I was shocked *SHOCKED* I tell's ya when I ran across a good number of classified ads by companies looking for people to set up and write Blog entries about product X or service X - and working in references to their company, who paid you a wage for writing that blog!  I'm not talking about 'ripoff' companies, but more-or-less legit, like chemical industry X, looking for people to do this.

<SarcasmOn>
What is the web coming to?

[Nonentity]

http://www.f13.net/xml-rss2.php

But you didn't hear that from me.

Your bookmark has strangely moved up two slots in my links folder.

Fancy that.

[Yoru]

Not long ago I discovered the beautiful descriptor "e/n blog".

E/N predates the blog buzzword by half a decade. Hell, E/N was basically about what most blogging is about, just without the fancy Web2.0 guerrilla marketing buzzworded software.

Also, kitties!

[El Gallo]

I don't even know what a feed is.

[Trippy]

f13's feed is hard to find. Your related feeds would have been another vote for Boing Boing, though.

I think Escapist+CNN+Dilbert=MMO nerd is pretty amusing.

There's a feed?! I've seriously looked twice on the main page for the feed, like spending more then a few seconds trying to find it, and I have yet to find it.

There used to be a link on the front page but that got removed so now you have to figure out the super sekrit URL to get to it. Hint: it's just using the default Nucleus CMS RSS2 URL (there's an Atom one as well if you prefer that).

Edit: oops, that's what I get for not reading the next page but since Dundee let the cat out of the bag, there's an Atom feed at atom.php if you prefer that format.

[Azazel]

I don't even know what a feed is.

I also don't understand this newfangled technology. I assume it'd annoy me though, by downloading shit top my computer that I'd never get around to reading as opposed to letting me go look at the bits I want of what I want when I want to.

[Righ]

Are digg, Slashdot and Metafilter really blogs? As well as providing links to things of interest to a community, don't blogs have to say something? If they don't, and its okay for blogs to just be connectors, isn't Technorati a better blog than any of these?

[Krakrok]

Blogs are basically a distributed comment system (P2P comments). To be a 'true' blog I'd argue that the site has to support track back functionality. That is what makes them different from your general geocities or centalized news/comment/forum system.

[Trippy]

Blogs are basically a distributed comment system (P2P comments). To be a 'true' blog I'd argue that the site has to support track back functionality. That is what makes them different from your general geocities or centalized news/comment/forum system.

Trackbacks are just a (semi) automated way of sending spam, I mean, setting up a link between one site and another. You can do the same by manually typing in a link in a comment field.

[Dundee]

Are digg, Slashdot and Metafilter really blogs? As well as providing links to things of interest to a community, don't blogs have to say something? If they don't, and its okay for blogs to just be connectors, isn't Technorati a better blog than any of these?

There's lots of content on Slashdot and Metafilter, comment-wise.

Digg has something to say with regard to how links get rated, plus commentary on how stupid the submitter is and how the submitter is not either.

That said, the definition of blog is pretty fuzzy. We should go back to saying "website" or "homepage". They're all websites. My website is a homepage. Kinda real tired of blog already. If short for weblog, one imagines you have to be logging something, but in practice it's more of a place to delete spam.

Man, I am sick of the spam.

Also of my being prefixed to everything. First thing I have always done with a new computer since 1995 has been to rename "My Computer" to "PC" and "Network Neighborhood" to "Network" so I can pretend to be an adult. Now it's all MyEverything.

...Until OurStuff catches on.

[Trippy]

Also of my being prefixed to everything. First thing I have always done with a new computer since 1995 has been to rename "My Computer" to "PC" and "Network Neighborhood" to "Network" so I can pretend to be an adult. Now it's all MyEverything.

What about "iComputer" and "iNetwork"? :-D

[stray]

I hate the "My Computer" icon period (whether it's "mine" or not). Give me control panels and desktop mounted discs.

[Lum]

Next time I'm just going to post pictures of my cat.

Well, since I don't own a cat, just a cat.

Possibly a list of cats.

Top ten MMO cats.

Liet's chaircats are cute, but I still nominate my chaircat for the list. She is quite enamored with Lord of the Rings when it comes on TV. She's also quite territorial, as you can see from her defense of one of our catassing chairs, so we can't have any more chaircats. We do have a neighbor cat who comes by twice a day to cadge some food, though.

[Raph]

I'm allergic to cats.

Which means cats love me. 

[Viin]

I'm allergic to cats.

Which means cats love me. 

Funny how that works. If you are allergic all the animals know it and swarm you. Don't come to my house if you are allergic to pets in general, as my 2 dogs and 2 cats will probably tackle you to the ground and lick your face.

[Cheddar]

I'm allergic to cats.

Which means cats love me. 

Funny how that works. If you are allergic all the animals know it and swarm you. Don't come to my house if you are allergic to pets in general, as my 2 dogs and 2 cats will probably tackle you to the ground and lick your face.

I am allergic to your wife.  Can I come over?

[Viin]

I am allergic to your wife.  Can I come over?

She's not quite as feisty as the animals. You'd be disappointed.

[Yoru]

Liet's chaircats are cute, but I still nominate my chaircat for the list. She is quite enamored with Lord of the Rings when it comes on TV.

... you have a geek cat. That's pretty awesome.

Now just teach her to play MMOs. I'm sure a catnip-scented keyboard could get her to do it.

[DataGod]

But then, the forums here get more activity than most of those blogs put together and cover all of the topics aside from the non-wankery. But ya know.

This I actually consider a fallacy of that table (and the chart at Raph's). When most of the conversation about MMO happen on forums, you need to include forums to get a true assessment of community. Blogs are just people standing on a box and talking to a wandering crowd. Some communities can come from there (Brokentoys, Raph's), but it's still generally one voice.

Forums are about many voices. And the constant seeking of clarity to find that middle ground (or not  ). They are more akin to the games they talk about, for the messiness that is social interaction.

ORLY?


I think whats missing is a debate on this thread about how the definition of "community" is changing....

[Jayce]

I really think we should abandon the name blog, because it's too ugly.

Just as legitimate would be:  We'

[Nonentity]

Are digg, Slashdot and Metafilter really blogs? As well as providing links to things of interest to a community, don't blogs have to say something? If they don't, and its okay for blogs to just be connectors, isn't Technorati a better blog than any of these?

There's lots of content on Slashdot and Metafilter, comment-wise.

Digg has something to say with regard to how links get rated, plus commentary on how stupid the submitter is and how the submitter is not either.

That said, the definition of blog is pretty fuzzy. We should go back to saying "website" or "homepage". They're all websites. My website is a homepage. Kinda real tired of blog already. If short for weblog, one imagines you have to be logging something, but in practice it's more of a place to delete spam.

Man, I am sick of the spam.

Also of my being prefixed to everything. First thing I have always done with a new computer since 1995 has been to rename "My Computer" to "PC" and "Network Neighborhood" to "Network" so I can pretend to be an adult. Now it's all MyEverything.

...Until OurStuff catches on.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, in Windows Vista, they dropped the whole 'My Blah' prefix on everything.

It's just Computer, Documents, Network. As it should be.

[eldaec]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, in Windows Vista, they dropped the whole 'My Blah' prefix on everything.

It's just Computer, Documents, Network. As it should be.

Wow.

That's the first feature of Vista anyone has ever described to me that has made me even slightly look forward to the upgrade. They should put that on the front of the packaging.

I am not joking.

[Nonentity]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, in Windows Vista, they dropped the whole 'My Blah' prefix on everything.

It's just Computer, Documents, Network. As it should be.

Wow.

That's the first feature of Vista anyone has ever described to me that has made me even slightly look forward to the upgrade. They should put that on the front of the packaging.

I am not joking.

I'm sure you're right.

Also, you can the glass interface bubbly and pink, and it comes with this weird cat dragon pink clock widget thing! WITH A BUBBLES SCREENSAVER!

I did all my Vista testing with that setup. Anyone who used that computer gave me weird looks when they looked over and saw the bubbles floating around the monitor.

[stray]

Do you still press "Start" in order to shutdown?

[Nonentity]

Do you still press "Start" in order to shutdown?

People still do that?

I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and click Shutdown.

Er... yes, you can still do that. I haven't used it in a while, but I don't believe it doesn't say 'Start', it's just a round green Windows button.

[stray]

it's just a round green Windows button.

Seriously, that's a big improvement interface wise. Took them forever though.

[Strazos]

What's with the start button hate? It's just a button.

[schild]

I can't work when things are ugly.

[stray]

What's with the start button hate? It's just a button.

It's just an example of poor interface design (and it doesn't end there).

Nothing wrong with the function of the start menu per se. There's just something wrong with the idea of pressing "Start" in order to log off or shutdown. That is something that boggles even the most ignorant of computer newbs, but for some reason, MS doesn't get it. They have tried so hard over the years to be like Macs, but they don't have the same underlying philosophy behind their decisions. Each successive interface is a jumbled mess, only with more bells and whistles.