Category: Random

Newsflash: Powazek Quits Weblogging. While in an unrelated, but nonetheless relevant counterpoint, Mark has said:

“I didn’t do it for myself, I didn’t do it for you, I did it because I had to. I am Batman.”

The domain name: ikillu.com sounds extremely close to e-memes “ICQ” and Mahir’s “I Kiss You”. Tagline: “The Mafia Revolution Responsible For The Deaths Of…” Find out more at kitsch bitch…

Barbelith is now brought to you via a G4 400, 192Mb RAM, DVD drive, TV card, Zip Drive, 17″ Studio Monitor, Kritter USB webcam, OS9. Long live the Mac Revolution.

I’m really keen on anti-advertising. I wonder occasionally if I should try to persuade my boss to run banners for really creative sites as house ads instead of some of the dubiously designed ones that we currently run. I wonder if that would increase general click-thru rates?

I have written and rewritten this post about thirty times, and every time it sounds too flippant. So I’m not going to bother writing anything detailed or in depth. Fuck it. I feel like someone slid the hook from “I Know What You Did Last Summer” into my stomach and with superhuman strength forced it towards my throat. Or I feel crazed and in control of a passenger jet. But mostly I just feel cold, and cruel, and hollow, and vengeful and actually partially dead. There will be no more posting tonight.

Thanks to Dan at Daily Doozer, who has scanned all of the PCFormat feature on weblogging. Read away…

Finally, a piece of beautiful design found through my referrers log: rupture.co.uk…

Wow. People can get really heated about stuff can’t they? Metafilter madness.

Current weblogging design favourites: wetlog, public weblog, magnetbox, keithbrown.com, tame.net, Web Therapy, Confessions of a Wannabe Actor, underachievers.com.

I went to the UK webloggers meet this afternoon with Katy (who also writes a goodly amount about the experience). It’s a pity that I wasn’t more in a mood to party, as it was really quite fun. Special kudos to Luke, for being cool and giving me all kinds of advice on Macs vs PCs (and looking like Chandler Bing) and to Jen, whose site I looked at as soon as I got home. It’s really bloody nice…