Well, like my usual self I went from one blog site to the next, and found myself face to face with a level 10 boss: Blogatron (no the site does not exist, email me if you ever register it or find out it is).
So here are my presents for you. First up, is a list of weblog items, both tools and blogging software brought to you by our friends at Yahoo. At this point I'm no longer really looking for much else other than sites that syndicate blogs, but some of the tools looked neat. This site also had a list of weblog syndicators, readers and tutorials. If you enjoy Java, or like to brag to your friends about it, or you want to dabble with something new, check out Roller -- a Java-based weblogger.
Next up, is a post discussing the Blogger.com buyout, from a MT user - Jay Cross. I thought his comment in response to Dave Winer's post was worth mentioning because, as I have mentioned a couple of times now, most of my time each day is spent educating and explaining what blogs are and why you would want to use one. Fortunately most of the discussions take place over instant messaging, so I'll say something like:
"If you can take the time to message me on this, you can take the time to put something up on a blog. If you are really lazy, just cut and paste - oddly enough people will read it and you will generate traffic."
Here is a quick rebuttal to some arguments I had not heard regarding RSS. I think it's foolish to claim that RSS is anything but a great solution to a problem (lack of standardized, simple, easy-to-use, cheap syndication) and ranks right up there with Bob Metcalfe's statement's about how the Internet is going to collapse (yes, the founder of 3Com and inventor of 'Ethernet' said that).
Lastly, it appears Blogshares has an 'official' blog maintained by several moderators at the forum - nothing much to see as of now, but I'll keep you posted (do the same for me). While perusing the forum I came upon a thread in Market Observations called: Mena Trott = Bill Gates?!?. What struck my fancy was a post by a user named Stefan who mentioned his use of Pivotlog. Pivot was one of the first blogging software that I came upon in my initial research for Collectrix. I managed to befriend a couple of the developers and still talk to one of them on a semi-regular basis. Anyways, it's a sweet & simple solution for blogging, packing many of the needed goods into a easy to use install -- yes, there are some downsides, but their new version should take care of them.
Anywho, I went to Stefan's site and noticed the Blog 40 icon. I clicked on it and found myself in the Netherlands once more, and I can't speak a lick of Netherlandanese, but I managed to submit my blog into their system (it is quite similar to BlogHotorNot). I couldn't figure out how to copy a customized script for my site, so that I can be rated with the click of the neat-o button, any ideas? Everything ended nicely though, as I pointed Jason to the site and reminded me of a neat word: Hollish, which ranks up there with Cthulhiana - and that's really what matters at the end of the day.
Posted by Tim at April 3, 2003 11:59 PM | TrackBack