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Monday, April 29, 2002

What the blog: I have few regrets in life except this one, that I've just spent the entire evening reading every weblog that I've bookmarked over the last couple of months when I should have been doing something more useful like watching television. . .

Unfair, I know. Just a reaction to:

1) weblog clustering:

'The A-list, in particular, often have a kind of contempt or disgust for the war bloggers. Not only do the war bloggers have the wrong politics (the A-list tends to extreme liberalism; if it was left to them, Nader would be President of the US now) but they also see war blogs as a perversion of the medium. It's just not what blogs should be for. (This is obviously a generalization and this opinion is not held universally, by any means.) The E/N [everything/nothing teens/early twentysomethings] crowd see the A-list as a bunch of stuck-up overeducated elitists; the A-list sees the E/N crowd as a bunch of punk kids. The War bloggers tend to look at the A-list as being unrealistic, idealistic, and out of touch. The effect of all this is to cut way down on the amount of cross-cluster linking; why should I route my readers to THOSE sons-of-bitches? Let 'em find their own readers.'
[USS Clueless].

2) Jacob Shwirtz's blogging archetype test telling me that I'm right-wing pundit Andrew Sullivan:


You are an Andrew Sullivan.
You are not afraid to share your political views with everyone in candid and clear ways.
You may also be making some money... one day.

Take the What Blogging Archetype Are You test at GAZM.org

And, 3), if Faisal is correct in his breakdown of the weblog life cycle, and I'm afraid that he is, he really is, the fear that iMakeContent is just about to start name-dropping links to other weblogs. [Faisal.com].

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The future is here: To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Popular Mechanics magazine is showing off every one of its past covers. Some top examples:

Jan 1902: The beginning of the horseless age
Jan 1902: Where skeletons of the living are photographed
July 1915: Fighting with poison gas
April 1935: Air travel in comfort
Nov 1959: In ten years: US coast to coast in 90 minutes
Sept 1969: Your personal helicopter
April 1995: Everybody's guide to the Internet
April 2002: US Air Force - special ops

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Order of the Royal Boot: William Tallon is upset. He worked for the Queen Mother for 51 years. Now, as well as getting the sack without receiving any severance pay, he's been asked to leave his grace-and-favour apartment in the grounds of Clarence House. His new home is an £80-a-week housing association flat in Kennington. Bet he kicks himself for not keeping up to date with his union subs. [This is London].

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