Via Crooked Timber, one of the wittiest metablogging posts I’ve read in quite a while. This is my favourite bit: Maxim of Controversy: 1. Be controversial. (Occasionally say what you are certain is true. It adds credibility.) 2. Hint at that for which you have no evidence. Via Invisible Adjunct, a sample job application letter […]

It was only a matter of time: a University of New South Wales student has been prosecuted for operating a website that distributed “pirated” music. I first heard about this on the fibreculture list, where people more knowledgeable than I about this stuff are building an interesting discussion about the implications. One point raised there […]

Both Anne Galloway and Adrian Miles have made connections between two newly coined blogtopian* ideas (does that count as a newly minted term?): grid blogging, which I mentioned yesterday, and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s clumping: What if we could automagically clump our conversations by specifying one (or more) initial entries to an agent I’m imagining as […]

Ashley Benigno has an interesting idea for a less centralized, but smarter alternative to group weblogs. It’s getting a fair bit of attention already from some very smart bloggers. He explains it well, so here you go: Grid blogging aims to investigate the potentials of a distributed media production model spread across blogosphere nodes. It […]

Via Queensland Uni buddy Nick Caldwell, I found another excellent academic blog: Crooked Timber. It’s a group weblog covering all manner of fascinating stuff including political science, literature, and philosophy – good mixture of news, links, and musings too. Check it out.

This is a test post using w.bloggar which is just completely cool. No more logging into blogger.com via a browser just to post entries or edit templates. One of its many excellent features is the ability to tell the world what track you were listening to at the time of posting using the Windows Media […]

At Invisible Shoebox, Meredith announces that her interview with pixelkitty is now up at Melbourne-based online culture mag Sleepy Brain. Saichan from sleepybrain comments: is it ironic that such an ephemeral medium as blogs can be set in stone in a magazine (albeit an online mag…)? Meanwhile, in the post yesterday I received a hardcopy […]