"I am the world crier,
& this is my dangerous career . . .
I am the one to call your bluff,
& this is my climate."
--Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
"You can only tell the shapes of things by looking at their edges..."
What's this weblog? Some weblogs are about weblogs and weblogging; others about the web and computing; my kind is still about the world, its sharp edges. Follow me, here you'll find edgy social commentary, criticism, cynicism, conjunctions and conundrums, outrage. Recent scientific, technical and healthcare developments. Occasional rants. Common sense and crazy wisdom. Exciting artistic and cultural news. Human pathos, whimsy, folly, darkness and depravity.
"It's mentalicious!"
--Matt Rossi
"Hot damn, this is a consistently excellent weblog."
-- Lynnette Millett, Medley
What's a weblog? Unlike a list of "cool links," the links in a blog are "hot", more timely and dated and, as one commentator put it, of "finer granularity." Another maven describes a weblog as "kind of a continual tour, with a human guide whom you get to know".
Cameron Barrett, who runs the CamWorld weblog, has written some nice musings about the weblog phenomenon. Weblogs: A History and Perspective by another superb weblogger, Rebecca Blood, is a thorough and reflective piece. And Christopher Lydon's late, lamented, literate NPR talkshow The Connection devoted an hour to weblogging in May, 2000. A July, 2000 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel feature by Jim Higgins gives an overview of the phenomenon and has some thoughtful things to say about this weblog. The New York Times' December 2000 take on the phenomenon also mentions FmH. (I've also heard that the Miami Herald pointed some readers to FmH in fall 2000 but the article does not appear to be online...) Lawrence Lee, consummate weblogger of Tomalak's Realm, writes here about how he links. And, although apologetically deemed "casual and unscientific", Aaronland keeps a comprehensive catalogue of writings about weblog theory and practice.
I'd love to hear
what you get out of this; a weblog can be a conversation, a
community. Comment on a particular post by clicking on the 
icon at the end of that post. As
Steve Baum says at Ethel
, "If anyone's offended by anything on this site then please do notify me immediately. I
like to keep track of those times when I get something right."
Please let me know if you find any of these links to be broken, especially when they're brand new. (Although all links were accurate at the date shown, some publications do not maintain archives, so some may now be broken or out of date.)
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