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Tag: Blogging

  • intimidating but also intimate / reflections on formative time in a revenant medium

    Metablogging is the most (self-)indulgent form of blogging—a bit of (self-demonstrating/self-performing) wisdom that was already a well-worn cliche when Technorati was still a thing that people cared about. But we are products of our milieu, are we not? Adam Kotsko would agree, I think—and this reflective bit of his from earlier this week flipped me…

  • dead media beat

    Thanks to Jay Springett and Uncle Warren for alerting me to the sunsetting of Bruce Sterling’s old Beyond the Beyond blog at Wired, which I only stopped following because Wired yanked the RSS on it some time ago—this despite its being perhaps the most influential thing they ever published, or ever will publish. Jay’s accompanying…

  • Albion reimagined, blogosphere rebooted

    Paul Watson (ov thee Lazarus Corporation) has been reading vintage anarcho-utopias: Despite the clumsiness of info-dumps and/or other literary faults, fiction — or any other artform — is far better at describing, and igniting the imagination about, different potential futures than any dry political tract (or indeed blogpost) filled with jargon, references, and footnotes. That’s why even frothing…