February 21, 2004

The Periodic Table of Blogs.
posted by anonymous 20 years ago
  • I thought I was a moderately plugged-in kinda guy, but dang--so many new ones, so little time...
  • Well, I've only ever visited two of the sites on there (Ten Years... and Wood S Lot, if you're interested). Maybe I should stay in more.
  • Don't feel bad. Any table that doesn't include MonkeyFilter has got problems.
  • And no link to my hit counter? Psssh. Amateur.
  • If MonkeyFilter were a twee, which twee would it be?
  • A tweety?
  • Been done before: Web Elements* (from the same well-warped mind who immortalized my first blog in "We Didn't Start the Weblogs") *but then, hasn't it ALL been done before?
  • I've only read 2 as well - Kottke and Wil Wheaton. I'm surprised they didn't include Slashdot, wasn't that technically the first 'weblog' ever? That's what NPR said. (I have no clue, though.)
  • It looks like they're all individuals' blogs -- there's no community blogs there at all, I don't think.
  • I believe that Robot Wisdom was the first. Or at least the first one to call itself a weblog. Or something. I don't know. The dude scares me anyway.
  • And Wil Wheaton has aced me out of domination of the initials "WW"... (except I'm WWdotcom, he's just WWdotnet!) Here's an early history of weblogs, from somebody who was there. Someday I must tell you all how I got to be the first person banned from Cam's linklist... anecdote alert... anecdote alert...
  • Hey, Wendell - I heard you were the first person banned from Cam's linklist? That true? How'd that happen?
  • (wait! first let me get the felt board, the hand-puppets, and more wood for the fire. ok.)
  • *waiting to hear wendell's anecdote...*
  • To put it as briefly as I can: 1999: Early early days of blogging; I started OneSwellFoop out of a Tripod free page and worked to network with other bloggers. Cameron Barrett added me to his site's "definitive bloglist" (and it was, way back then). I broke the boredom and teach myself html by doing "spoof pages" (most of whom are lost), but one of them was a 'self-hack' parodying a then-infamous team of site pirates called "United Lone Gunmen", saved here. The original version included a line saying "We have more important blogs to hack, like kottke and CamWorld." Kottke liked it, but Cam was livid. He thought I just wasn't taking hacking seriously (and I wasn't) and my reference was going to enourage real hackers to attack his site. I removed the offending line, but he "de-listed" me. I struck back humorously by redesigning my blog to look exactly like his and changing the page title to "ScamWorld" (page not found). He has been aggressively ignoring me ever since. I had better luck poking fun at other bloggers, including the time I did a "Motley Fool"-style page I called "The Motley Foop", containing a news story accusing another blogger of trying to buy out all the other blogs. My page was lost but his reply is still out there.
  • ...and those were the days when "the definitive bloglist" had less than 100 people blogging on it. (And, yes, it was the origin of the mythical 'Blogging A-List').