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Auld is the Lang Syne

December 31st, 2010 · 13 Comments

I started blogging ten years ago tomorrow–January 1st, 2001–with a quote from Parappa the Rapper, a welcome to my newborn niece, and the default Blogger theme. I wasn’t a very good blogger, but in 2001, who was? I’d make all these little placeholder posts, with the idea of going back and finishing them later. Heh. [...]

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Tags: Blogging

It's Been Real

June 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

I may make the big upgrade to WordPress 3.0 tonight, or soon. So if it all goes awry and this blog goes up in digital smoke–well, you won’t be reading this!

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Tags: Blogging

On Not Blogging

December 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

“Do not fancy that an intermission of writing is a decay of kindness.”

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Tags: Blogging · Paleoblogging

Survival of the Fittest

November 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Timothy Burke on old weird eugenics.

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Tags: Academia · Blogging · Gilded Age

The Golden Age of Blogging

September 4th, 2009 · 10 Comments

The Golden Age of Blogging is over; bring on the Silver Age.

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Tags: Blogging · Favorites · Not Blogging · Robots

The Slow Blog Movement, Continued

June 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

On slowiness.

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Tags: Blogging · Daddyhood · Early Internets · Not Blogging

Meta

February 22nd, 2009 · 14 Comments

Three ways to leave your lover.

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Tags: Blogging · Not Blogging

Digital History Hacks

February 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Toasting the essential digital history blog.

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Tags: Academia · Blogging · Digital History · Favorites

Slow Blog Manifesto

December 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Slow and low, that is the tempo. Hat tip to Dan Cohen.

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Tags: Asides · Blogging · Not Blogging

I Am Oddly Relieved

November 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Blogging is dead, says Wired. Which is only fair since I declared Wired dead in 1998.

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Tags: Asides · Blogging