The WELL: inkwell.vue.182: Rebecca Blood, "The Weblog Handbook"

#124: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sun 18 May 03 10:31

Sun, 18 May 2003 10:31:00 PDT

Have a great trip, Rebecca! [Read entire topic]

#123: Christian Crumlish (xian) Sat 17 May 03 13:15

Sat, 17 May 2003 13:15:00 PDT

thanks for gracing us with your presence. knock 'em dead (or some suitably nonviolent equivalent metaphor) in Wien.

and somebody get her a visiting scholar comp acct for at least a few more months (till she's thoroughly hooked, heh heh heh). [Read entire topic]

#122: Rebecca Blood (rebeccablood) Fri 16 May 03 21:13

Fri, 16 May 2003 21:13:00 PDT

xian, I think your gardening metaphor is very apt. I remember seeing one weblogger talk about going through his archives and weeding out links that no longer worked, tending his archives. :) [Read entire topic]

#121: Rebecca Blood (rebeccablood) Fri 16 May 03 21:11

Fri, 16 May 2003 21:11:00 PDT

Cynthia, Jon, and everyone in this thread, thank you so much for such a fun and thought-provoking conversation. some of these questions made me revisit some of the assumptions I've fallen into in the last year and a half, and for that I am extremely grateful.

I will be leaving for Vienna on Tuesday for a week, and I'm not taking my computer--and my access here will run out at the end of the month. But I'm going to continue to check here at least once a day through Monday, and then when I get back. If there's anything you didn't get to ask, please do. It's a real pleasure to talk with such smart, thoughtful people. [Read entire topic]

#120: andyp (aapark) Fri 16 May 03 17:19

Fri, 16 May 2003 17:19:00 PDT

Yes, thanks Cynthia for making this available. [Read entire topic]

#119: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 16 May 03 16:09

Fri, 16 May 2003 16:09:00 PDT

Thanks, Cynthia! [Read entire topic]

#118: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Fri 16 May 03 15:52

Fri, 16 May 2003 15:52:00 PDT

I'd like to thank Rebecca Blood for joining us here in Inkwell.vue. It's hard to believe two weeks have gone by already. Rebecca, though Matthew Fox's discussion is now spotlighted on our web pages, you and Jon (and the other participants, of course) are more than welcome to continue this discussion for as long as you like. [Read entire topic]

#117: Christian Crumlish (xian) Fri 16 May 03 15:43

Fri, 16 May 2003 15:43:00 PDT

i think at best it works like gardening. wide text columns and narrow gutters are just some of the architectural tricks that have stood the test of time (in this medium and others). after that we're talking personal expression and what zeldman calls "the indendent content creator" (finish that clause for brownie points), and so really it's do what you will shall be the extent of the law.

gardening because you plant things that catch your fancy and weed the ones that have died on the vine or are running amok like kudzu. seasons change as do your fancies. the whole thing gets denser and more rich whether its waxing or waning, as long as you keep attending to and husbanding it.

experiments, habits, sudden fits or destruction and reconception are common to both gardening and blogging.

free association: an occasional blog by gardeners (disclaimer: i host it, know the writers extremely well): http://godetia.com/dirt/

sorry for rambling on. caught by a trope! [Read entire topic]

#116: Rebecca Blood (rebeccablood) Fri 16 May 03 11:18

Fri, 16 May 2003 11:18:00 PDT

> jon: In my case... I'm trying to simplify. <

It's easy to get carried away, isn't it? I'm continuously populating my sidebar with little bits of information, and then going through and stripping it down when it gets cluttered. This fad of putting links in the sidebar and longer pieces in the main body of the weblog is another manifestation of the same thing.

I do think a weblog works best when its design highlights the text, rather than being cluttered up with a million distractions. But I'm one to talk: my sidebar has links to online charities, recent articles and appearances, and mini reviews of all the films I've seen. I can't get enough stuff into that sidebar. [Read entire topic]

#115: Michael C. Berch (mcb) Fri 16 May 03 00:12

Fri, 16 May 2003 00:12:00 PDT

Interesting stuff, thanks. [Read entire topic]