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Doug Miller points at a Rael Dornfest explication of “similarities between Blosxom and Dave Winer’s Channel Z.” Bryan Bell pointed out Blosxom’s flexibility in this area just before bloggerCon, where I noted to Dave again the value of adding “multiple department designations” to Manila newsItem sites. But what’s most encouraging in Doug’s post is this TB comment: “???This: ‘Append an index.rss and you’ve an RSS feed of the path, day, path/day combination, or specific posting in question’ is a very cool idea??? It’s an idea I’ve also played with for use with my categories here at DSD via Tinderbox, which makes doing it childishly easy.” I’m all for easy.

A July ‘03 post pointed to by Robert Scoble. Swear to BAWP, I didn’t see this before edBlogger’s ‘Writing Process, Blogging Process’ roundtable. Wish I had. “Dave Pollard writes about the blogging process. That sounds pretty good to me.” [The Scobleizer Weblog]
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Via Alan Levine: “Related to recent wonderings of Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?, it appears that author William Gibson is blogged out. In Last Postcard from Costa Del Blog, Gibson pens: ‘Time for me to get back to my day job, which means that it’s time for me to stop blogging. I’ve found blogging to be a low-impact activity, mildly narcotic and mostly quite convivial, but the thing I’ve most enjoyed about it is how it never fails to underline the fact that if I’m doing this I’m definitely not writing a novel??? Maybe it’s the next great slogan for blogging: “low-impact activity, mildly narcotic and mostly quite convivial”‘” [cogdogblog]

Me too! This present use of digital paper appears as a high speed flurry of post-its and ether airplanes. Scrible, stick, zoom, thunk. Yesterday I listened to this witty reflection on blogging by Andrei Codrescu. Today I read “Weeding,” librarian Thomas Washington’s lament for web-crowded books. “???. The goal is never to go under, never to fully immerse oneself in the contents of the page.” All week at Galileo I’ve been dustily stumbling on the same set of borrowers’ Date Due trails on the front pages of spine-weary classic novels. Sigh - time for a ‘blog weeding’ winter break.
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