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I wonder how many people

January 11, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I wonder how many people

remember bOING bOING the magazine? It was wonderful, eclectic, fun. Back in the day, it was one of the things that heralded that something new was coming. I wasn’t sure what it was. But I think of it, and Mondo 2000, and a few others as this sort of canary in a coal mine in reverse. The atmosphere was changing, and instead of dying, this canary was thriving.

Anyhow, I love Cory Doctorow’s blogging over at boing boing the website. Cory’s one of those people I virtually bump into all the time, though we’ve never met. I went over to a great friend’s place once while I was in Ottawa, my friend who most closely approaches the ideal of the evil genius (though he’s not really evil at all). And he’s telling me about this new friend of his Cory… the same guy who I had asked that week (by email) about a DSL config problem I was having. Coincidence.

So anyhow I’ve been enjoying his and Mark Frauenfelder’s work/fun for ages now. And it bugs me a bit that somehow boing boing the website has seemingly become identified simply as Cory’s personal weblog. Cory has a personal site: it’s at craphound.com. Boing Boing is, as far as I can tell, a collaborative project including a weblog, a guestlog, and a directory, plus archives of Mark’s illustrations and lots of other fun stuff. To identify that with just one person is misleading and, I think, somewhat of an insult to the other contributors.

I’m sure I’m making too big a deal of this, but whatever. Misattribution has always gotten to me.

Tags: Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, Personal

Yet more inspired blogging

January 11, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Yet more inspired blogging

by my friend Ed in Blork Blog: “that second thing [that Brussels Sprouts taste cabbagey] is less of a problem these days, as I am gaining more and more respect for the cabbage, mostly on historical and philosophical grounds.”

Uh huh. I like Brussels Sprouts (try boiling them then lightly frying in oil and garlic). But not, I repeat NOT, for philosophical reasons.

Tags: Food

The End of Free

January 10, 2002 by Michael Boyle

The End of Free

indeed. It seems that Blogger will soon cease to be a free-only web app. Some are predicting that the anouncement Evan is going to make will be a Blogger Premium service.

I’m certain that lots of people will become very discombobulated over this news, but I think it’s great news and wish Evan all the luck in the world with the new service.

The idealist in me (who really knows nothing of the back-story of the demise of the original Pyra) kinda wishes that they could have gotten this together a year or so ago so that that whole gang could have stuck it out as a team. But again, I know little to nothing of the back-story there, so it’s sort of ridiculous to suggest it.

Tags: Blogging

Whew

January 9, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Whew

. I’m really glad that Dantz has released a working version of Retrospect for OS X. I’ve been keeping backups of my documents and such, of course, but I like having a complete backup of my system.

Tags: Backup

It looks like

January 8, 2002 by Michael Boyle

It looks like

Rep. Rick Boucher is taking on the music lobby. Interesting. Hope he makes some headway, at least in terms of educating people about the excesses of the DMCA.

Tags: US Politics

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