Archive for category: The Weblog medium

Somebody tell Denton about sticky posts    (2011.02.13)

You don’t need to abandon “the blog format” to keep breaking news highest on a homepage

‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive’    (2010.12.30)

Paul Ford: ‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive. Everyone is braced for audience attack’

I’m not the only one who thinks comments are harmful on news sites    (2010.12.14)

Ask Ben Hammersley: Chasing “the conversation” is “actually almost a cultural crime”

Joe Jervis, menace to society    (2010.09.23)

Joe Jervis writes a blog that attracts comments calling for violence

How to ‘renew’ Toronto’s national newspaper    (2010.07.19)

What I told John Stackhouse of the Globe and Mail. In short: Why did you ever believe Mathew Ingram on the topic of comments? (Now with update after off-topic caterwauling from Carl Wilson)

‘Typical teens, Stockholm’    (2010.03.14)

Scott Schuman takes a delightful fashion photograph of two ladies whose progeny may take over Sweden

The Internets don’t want you to improve    (2010.03.03)

The Internets, like other young men, hold grudges. The issue is not your own desire or need to change. It is enemies’ and opponents’ desire and need to stop you from doing that

When failure is an option    (2010.02.12)

I try to improve. Who, it seems, does not? Denis McGrath

Was Tara Ariano ever Canadian?    (2010.01.12)

Alleged Canadian Tara Ariano: “Your money is stupid”