Chipping the web – nove
November 24th, 2006 5:44:53 pm pst by Sterling Camden
The nonagility of biotech (Thanks, Assaf). Most people are so afraid of risk that they eschew rewards.
A timeline of blog history from Vaspers the Grate (via Doc, who corrects his own).
And Vaspers pointed me to Rebecca Blood’s essay weblogs, a history and perspective. Especially the perspective. Even though this ancient document was written way back in 2000, Rebecca had me saying “wow” and reading to the end. Subscribed.
Rebecca and every other woman on my blogroll should have made this list ahead of a cartoon character. And I question whether Daryl Hannah or Paris Hilton have ever written a line of code, even if you include HTML in the broad sense of the term. It’s plain to me that CRAVE believes that the store of female geeks is so small that it requires stretching with filler. A quick Google of “girl geek” would have dispelled that notion. For shame. (via Mike Arrington)
AbbreviationZ, the A to Z of Acronyms and Abbreviations on the Net. Via TDavid, who was surprised to find that WTF has 61 uses beyond the presumed definition.
Animated map of the spread of the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl. Sickening. Thanks, Armchair Anarchist.
What’s the difference between Microsoft Windows and a light bulb? You can unscrew the light bulb.
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Thanks for linking to my Blog History Timeline.
I like how Rebecca Blood emphasizes the irreverence, sarcasm, strident opinions, and fierce independence of the early bloggers, and how the first blogs were more “pre-surfed web”, like your blog, than the less interesting “digital diaries” that sprang up with Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal, and the MySpace toilet.
You’re welcome, VtG — and thanks for pulling that together for us.
I share your general opinion of MySpace, but I do find some of the “digital diary” entries in blogs interesting. I even do quite a bit of that myself.
Nothing “wrong” with online journals, but they remind me of a few people I know who blabber narcissistically on and on and on and on about nothing, and use their discourse to prevent disturbing subsconcious thoughts from rising to full consciousness, guilt, anxiety, etc.
I’m working on trying to understand neurotic chattering boxes who inflict their prolix verbiage on everybody: the mouth as weapon.
Well, that quest intrigues me. Subscribed.
A reciprocal subscription: I have subscribed to your email updates. And I will tonight post something about Mouth As Weapon and endless myopic discourse.
P.S. I just posted my article “Mouth as Weapon: 9 Signs of Psycho Blabbers” and linked to this post here. I dedicate my post to you. Thanks for making the wheels of my brain spin.
You’re welcome. Thanks for subscribing and for the link. A thoughtful post, especially 6 and 9. It shall be linked by day’s end.
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