- Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.—Gravity’s Rainbow
‘Is it about a bicycle?’ he asked.—The Third Policeman
Tag Archives: blogging
Plague
Every once in a while I check the spam filter here in the Basement, just to be sure a legitimate comment hasn’t been trapped. (It hasn’t happened yet.) Today, out of twelve bits of spam, only one was in English. The rest were Chinese. What gives with that? That’s not the ratio with my e-mail [...]
InstaPudhead
Why I don’t read InstaPundit. (I know you’ve been dying to know.) I don’t bother with Mickey Kaus either. That guy’s always on the verge of making sense, but never really does. Wait a minute—if I start listing all the people I don’t read because of the low return on my investment of time … [...]
Blogology
I have this funny urge to do a taxonomy of blogs. Some of the distinguishing characteristics would be: Single author | multiple authors Multiple posts per day | multiple days between posts Blogger does | does not already have an outlet in traditional media Blogger did | did not acquire an outlet in traditional media [...]
Dud
Boy, that last entry (“Shifting”) was a stinker, wasn’t it? In the meantime I stumbled upon the Big Guy‘s blog, and I can’t figure out whether it validates the effort of all us myriad scribblers* or invalidates it.** __________ *I mean, if He does it … **What’s left to say, really?
Fours
Good grief! I hardly blog at all, and here I’ve been tagged. I’m it. And not the it from the eBay ads, just “it.” Okay, what the heck. Four of this and four of that—petits fours … pour vous et vous seulement (and you know who vous are). Four jobs I’ve had: Visa gofer (the travel [...]
Basement
It suddenly dawned on me that WorldWideWeber is not an appropriate name for this blog. After tossing around a few alternatives, I’ve settled on Notes from the Basement. It should be apparent that this is an homage à Dostoïevski,* a nod to his Записки из подполья, usually rendered in English as Notes from Underground (or even less [...]
Unread
Here’s a sig that resonates: In the future, everyone will have a blog, and none of them will be read. My unread blog will be Symmachus. (Found it over at Daily Kos—a phenomenally widely read blog.)
Test
Submitting new blog entries by e-mail—what a concept! Now let’s see if it works …
Anonymity
The photo got me thinking in about eight directions at once: about vanity, internet anonymity, blogging styles … okay, maybe not eight, literally. I find that I like it when a photo of the author accompanies an article online, or appears on a blog page. It’s nice to connect a face with a voice. I [...]
Spiel