Category: Our Web, Ourselves.

Fray has a new design. Looks pretty spiffy.

Last night, I played cards with his wife. I’ve never seen him without a shirt until now. My thinking is you have to be pretty hairless to pull this sort of thing off.

Wishbone Zine is now Slolane.org I think because Wishone creator Angela has given birth to twins. Something tells me we won’t be seeing the zine again which is sad because it was one of my favorites. But it’s not like I don’t understand.

AirlineMeals.net is a collection of photos of airplane food from flights all over the world, most with hilarious captions. Fasincating in a trashy-John Waters sort of way (via the latest issue of Bitch Magazine).

I’ll admit, when I first started weblogging, I was a little bit concerned with being one of the popular kids, having lots of people read me, getting awards, speaking on panels, what have you. Then I grew up and forgot about it. About 80 people come here a day and read what I have to say and I love them all. I’d still do it if it were only my dad and my college buddies since we’re all obligated to support each other’s dorky projects anyway. But the friends I’ve never met are great.

Which is why I think this is easily the dumbest, most destructive thing I’ve heard about weblogging. Thankfully, I don’t know any of the details because if I did, I’d probably be digging a hole to China to hide in to avoid the embarrasment. All I know is I went for a routine visit to my friend Jessica’s blog and found nothing. When I asked her about it, she pointed me to this explanation

Read if you must but jeez, it’s pathetic, grown people (some of them, please?) acting like lunchtime in the junior high cafeteria. You cheated, no you did, no I campeigned, which isn’t cheating. I did both because winning an award for a web site where I discuss funny things that happen to me at the dentist’s office is the highlight of my life.

Ugh, are you kidding me?

The Bloggies in question, by the way, are put together by Nikolai Nolan, someone who has shown nothing but support and dedication to the art of blogging for years. And he’s 19, at a challenging university and with better thing to do, hopefully, than sift though mountains of petty vanity.

It was supposed to be fun, kiddies. That was the only reason I got into weblogging. Because it was fun to meet people, write everyday and be a creative person in this still evolving medium. That kind of D.I.Y. energy is exciting to me.

In the spirit of that, And if you don’t like something that’s on the web, build something else yourself. That’s the spirit of things around here. Save the bitching, insults, and paranoia for talk radio, media’s equivalent of junior high school writ very loud.

I’m going to go groan now.

P.S. No slag intended to Denise, who was very big about trying, level-headedly to clear this mess up.

Sorry about that. i’m having desktop trouble and, while using my laptop, I forgot my MT password. Mena was kind enough to send it on as she just returned from Japan and being a big web rock star and all. So here I am again.

I told myself when I started this thing that I wouldn’t blog if I didn’t have something to say that day. And passing link floatsam from hand to hand doesn’t count. That’s why I haven’t in the last few days. I’m planning on sitting down tomorrow and stringing some thoughts together.

Just to keep you updated. That is all.

Lunch with my friend Matt yesterday provoked a better name for my streaming radio plug-in idea than I had thought of…Radio Tivo. I like it.

Many of us who have weblogs out there can’t program worth a plug nickel which is one reason why Lazy Web is a great idea. I’ve had a few ideas in the past that I think would make great use of web technology (but really now, what do I know?) and since I can’t program, they stay ideas.

Enter Lazy Web. Now you can post said ideas and an ambitious programmer will come on by, pluck your idea and she if he/she can make it happen.

My Best Idea: I love to listen to streaming radio while working at my computer but I’ll often lose track of time and forget when my favorite shows began. This invariably happens for shows that are in a different time zone, like afternoon drive time on my favorite radio station from childhood.

Ergo…

What about a Winamp or Real Player plug-in that allows you to program the player as if it were an alarm clock? For example, you could program Fresh Air to automatically come on at 1 PM PST and then switch over to drive time on some station on the east coast. You could also program which days would do what, so the player wouldn’t be going through its rotation of stations while you’re not at work (say on Saturday). Seems simple enough to me (link via Consolation Champs).

Leaving for da east coast and Thanksgiving with my family. Blogging will be sporatic, if at all. I come back a week from Saturday. Happy Holidays everyone!