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  • EdgeTheory: Is Our Social Activity Sanitized, Inauthentic?

    My counter-example to that would be The Daily Dish, which covers Obama, beards on men, the View From My Window, marriage equality, The Pet Shop Boys, Obama again, religion, faith, the Catholic Church, conservatism, liberalism, Mental Health Breaks, and on and on. Sullivan's diverse concerns and styles haven't diluted his "brand," a term I doubt he takes much time thinking about, and it's worth understanding why.

    HIs blog is consistently in the top 20 blogs in terms of traffic. In terms of influence? I'd say it's the most influential personal blog in the world. I disagree with him frequently but read him daily.

    Sullivan's definitive take on blogging, Why I Blog, here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/200..., which every blogger should read. Then they should read Orwell's Politics and the English Language again.

    I would say to Saad: If you're going to blog about politics, your post should at least read as if you read and follow political blogs. Otherwise, it will seem inauthentic. If you're worried that it's link bait, it probably is. Still, maybe no one's commenting or sharing, but that doesn't mean they're not reading.

    Social media corrupts fundamentally in this way: Everyone feels she must have a personal brand. If there is miscegenation to worry about in our world, right now, that's it.

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  • EdgeTheory: Is Our Social Activity Sanitized, Inauthentic?

    My counter-example to that would be The Daily Dish, which covers Obama, beards on men, the View From My Window, marriage equality, The Pet Shop Boys, Obama again, religion, faith, the Catholic Church, conservatism, liberalism, Mental Health Breaks, and on and on. Sullivan's diverse concerns and styles haven't diluted his "brand," a term I doubt he takes much time thinking about, and it's worth understanding why.

    HIs blog is consistently in the top 20 blogs in terms of traffic. In terms of influence? I'd say it's the most influential personal blog in the world. I disagree with him frequently but read him daily.

    Sullivan's definitive take on blogging, Why I Blog, here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/200..., which every blogger should read. Then they should read Orwell's Politics and the English Language again.

    I would say to Saad: If you're going to blog about politics, your post should at least read as if you read and follow political blogs. Otherwise, it will seem inauthentic. If you're worried that it's link bait, it probably is. Still, maybe no one's commenting or sharing, but that doesn't mean they're not reading.

    Social media corrupts fundamentally in this way: Everyone feels she must have a personal brand. If there is miscegenation to worry about in our world, right now, that's it.

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  • James Randi: "I'm gay."

    Aside from respecting Randi, which many many people do, this post just gives one more reason to love Wil Wheaton. :-)

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  • Making Blogger Blogs Prettier: Google Launches New Template Designer

    My prediction: Blogger blogs will become even uglier than they are already.

    Who thought it would be a good idea to give non-designers the ability to micromanage their color choices and layouts? It's absurd. It's answer to a problem no one had.

    Unlike the spam comments.

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  • Blogger Intros Highly Customizable Template Designer

    Louis, please, this is a press release. When did you start working for Google? With this post and all your Buzz cheerleading, I begin to wonder. Since when does Google need an uncritical advocate?

    Right now, any blogger who cares about design would use tumblr; anyone who cares about infinite control and flexibility would use self-hosted WordPress; anyone who cares only about Google, and cares only about using a free platform that allows running ads, would use Blogger. And anyone who says otherwise hasn't done their research or doesn't know any better. Which means, has only noticed Google pimping their platform because they also use gmail.

    Blogger is the most backward blogging platform in existence and color pickers for every css element doesn't change that in the least.

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  • Blogger Intros Highly Customizable Template Designer

    I still maintain that this is a press release. Google loves it and could have written it, which is my point. That's not why I read you before I read anyone else.

    Negativity is someone else's job, that's true, and I have tons of negativity about Blogger coming from a gay perspective.

    What I expect out of you is balance. I think, as it pertains to Google products, you've lost yours.

    And pleassseeee, don't call me, sir. ;-)

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  • Blogger Intros Highly Customizable Template Designer

    I wouldn't critique anyone whose viewpoint I didn't find valuable. I mean, why would I waste my time? And you know that.

    Also, I sign up for hundreds of services per year and always try to sign up as homo superior. I get a real kick out of getting e-mails or messages addressed as "dear homo." As if I were the only one! That pleases my vanity, and my sense of irony and humor.

    But you can call me Rick.

    I turned off Buzz, btw. Half-baked, IMNSHO.

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  • Blogger Intros Highly Customizable Template Designer

    I wouldn't critique anyone whose viewpoint I didn't find valuable. I mean, why would I waste my time? And you know that.

    Also, I sign up for hundreds of services per year and always try to sign up as homo superior. I get a real kick out of getting e-mails or messages addressed as "dear homo." As if I were the only one! That pleases my vanity, and my sense of irony and humor.

    But you can call me Rick.

    I turned off Buzz, btw. Half-baked, IMNSHO.

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  • Blogger Intros Highly Customizable Template Designer

    I still maintain that this is a press release. Google loves it and could have written it, which is my point. That's not why I read you before I read anyone else.

    Negativity is someone else's job, that's true, and I have tons of negativity about Blogger coming from a gay perspective.

    What I expect out of you is balance. I think, as it pertains to Google products, you've lost yours.

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  • Blogger Intros Highly Customizable Template Designer

    I still maintain that this is a press release. Google loves it and could have written it, which is my point. That's not why I read you before I read anyone else.

    Negativity is someone else's job, that's true, and I have tons of negativity about Blogger coming from a gay perspective.

    What I expect out of you is balance. I think, as it pertains to Google products, you've lost yours.

    And pleassseeee, don't call me, sir. ;-)

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  • Blogger Intros Highly Customizable Template Designer

    Louis, please, this is a press release. When did you start working for Google? With this post and all your Buzz cheerleading, I begin to wonder. Since when does Google need an uncritical advocate?

    Right now, any blogger who cares about design would use tumblr; anyone who cares about infinite control and flexibility would use self-hosted WordPress; anyone who cares only about Google, and cares only about using a free platform that allows running ads, would use Blogger. And anyone who says otherwise hasn't done their research or doesn't know any better. Which means, has only noticed Google pimping their platform because they also use gmail.

    Blogger is the most backward blogging platform in existence and color pickers for every css element doesn't change that in the least.

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