Comments on: Going pro

By: Katrina

Katrina — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:41:22 +0000

On the issue of bloggers not linking to each other like they used to: I had a blog in the olden days, and I used trackback a lot, and it was great in order to follow cross-blog conversations. However, when started a new one early in 2009, I couldn’t find this feature on the current blogger software (if I’ve missed it, please let me know). Without that feature, it’s impossible (or rather, so tedious nobody will bother) to find out where your posts are being referenced on other people’s pages.

By: Demetrius

Demetrius — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:48:07 +0000

Perhaps you have been reading the wrong blogs, up to a point. Professional bloggers often have to have a relatively fixed position, and an angle. Some amateurs or rather free agents can take an individual and thinking line. But not too many do, unluckily.

By: subrosa

subrosa — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:27:24 +0000

I’m a retiree who blogs on politics from Scotland. For some unknown reason I’m listed 43 in Wikio UK and am third of the Scottish bloggers.

Sadly not enough women blog, especially women retirees who make all sorts of excuses about not understanding complex technology, but I really don’t blame them as it is hard work and most of all time consuming.

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:28:27 +0000

Is it the Candy Apple Grey to ‘04’s New Day Rising?

Good question—I have to wait until Michael Azzerad writes the definitive history of blogging (This Blog Could Be Your Life) to find out.

Old hag: thanks! Saturday, to be exact.

By: The 45 year old hag

The 45 year old hag — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:38:49 +0000

Old? Ahemmm. Speak yourself.

Happy birthday, Michael!

By: J. Fisher

J. Fisher — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:46:08 +0000

Ah, 2004. Bad times. How bad, you ask? Really, really bad. Why, back in September of that year, blogging sold out and became corporate. And so what does that mean for the current iteration of your blog. Is it the Candy Apple Grey to '04's New Day Rising?

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:10:07 +0000

You rotten kids today, with your OMGs and your NSFWs. Get off my lawn!

Srsly, I am old—48 next week, in fact. But the Hüsker Dü line is a standard joke on Ye Olde Blogge of mine, and you can even find it if you click on the “hyper”-”link” on the phrase “blogging sold out and became corporate.” Apparently, the “hyper”-”link” will take you directly to a post of mine from 2004, almost like a “transporter” or “time machine.” As for my reference to AOL, check out the first citation in “Thing the Eighth.” I dunno, I thought having AOL on the other line would be something of a laff riot.

I also think gopher and Prodigy are going to be really big someday.

By: justme

justme — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:28:43 +0000

>> I liked Hüsker Dü before you did

>> that’s AOL on the other line

OMG! Another old geezer who thinks he is really cool …
(AOL? please, what are you still using dial-up or something?)

By: David

David — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:29:20 +0000

Or at least Odoevsky predicted the Christmas Letter.

By: JoB

JoB — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:34:13 +0000

Roger that!

By: roger

roger — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:29:49 +0000

I’ve never understood the deal about insisting and wanting to be marginal, and then resenting that one isn’t in the center. There are hundreds of thousands of blogs, and I imagine a good ninety more percent of them have never given a shit if they got a reward or were in the top ten (of what?). And they will chug along, commenting on sports, or porno, or dissing high school enemies, or soliloquizing about starving or cutting themselves. Because they learned a tongue.,

And this, I think, is wholly good.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:23:12 +0000

Blogging was invented in 4338, imagined in the 1830s by some Russian guy.

By: HP

HP — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:20:36 +0000

the lone-gunmen style of blogging that’s already being romanticized

Oh, man, I really want to read that. Are we talking Brontë or something more like the pulps?

“Dan ensconced himself before the sleek Dell laptop and let his fingers dance among the keys. The words came easy to him, like a cheap hoyden in an after-hours joint up on Twelfth. In college he was D-Day, and on Usenet he was Bork.bork.bork. But in the blogosphere, everyone knew him as Aratosthenes.”

By: Bill Scher

Bill Scher — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:00:34 +0000

Dead on post Michael.

Evil is Evil, I am way behind in updating the LiberalOasis blogroll—as Michael said, it’s a lot of work! If you have blogs to add, please send them to contact – at – liberaloasis.com.

By: David

David — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:08:42 +0000

Well, it should have started in 1985. I’m sure it would have got things off to a rousing, better start and hastened the WWW.