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The Weblog Awards - 2002
Posted 13/10/2002 under
The Weblog Awards - 2002
Welcome to the 2002 Weblog Awards?. I’m Nikolai Nolan, and I’ll be your host, again.
The Bloggies? are publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs in 30 categories. And not much more introduction is necessary, except for a link to last year’s winners. Here are the rules:
Truly Ageless
Posted 13/10/2002 under
Truly Ageless
We’re sending the message that the personal, creative side of the web is diverse and ageless and if each of you personal website builders out there will openly share your date of birth with us, we’ll be on our way to proving it!
The Blog Phenomenon
Posted 12/10/2002 under
The Blog Phenomenon
A recent overlooked Web trend?overlooked by the mainstream media, at least?is the proliferation of public diaries, generically referred to as Blogs. The term originated from “WeB log” and was further promoted by pyra.com as a Blog at its www.blogger.com site, although www.pita.com is considered the original source of easy-to-use Web logging. People who “Blog” are called Bloggers, and right now there are hundreds, thousands of Blogs on the Net.
Generally speaking, these postings are fascinating, since they often have serious elements of Hyde Park corner blather, besides blatant exhibitionism and obvious self-indulgence. And whatever you think of them, you’ll admit that they are much more interesting than the static vanity site from years ago.
A List Apart - How to Write a Better Weblog
Posted 12/10/2002 under
A List Apart - How to Write a Better Weblog
THERE?S BEEN A RECENT retread of the weblogging phenomenon following a few articles at PC Mag, Time, and The Morning News. After posting my own short list of things that ought to be banned from weblogs, I realized that a list of things to be encouraged would be more useful. Some people are new to weblogging. Others want to raise the bar. In the end, everybody wants better sites, and some of these suggestions might help.
The bulk of this advice focuses on writing, which is generally at the heart of weblogs. All of them are obvious yet often ignored, to the detriment of both the readers and the writers. They?re aimed at people trying to improve the general appeal of their weblogs, but folks writing privately for friends and family might also find them useful. We?ll begin with an example.
Collaboratively mapping weblogs for smarter blogsearching.
Posted 10/10/2002 under
We have our blogs, like to read each other’s and it would be cool to discover blogs from people living next to us. But there isn’t a good seach engine for that.
The Blogger Code
Posted 09/10/2002 under
Geeks have one. So do hairy gay men and their admirers.
Isn’t it time bloggers have a code to describe themselves as well?
(OK, so maybe not, but we charge forward nonetheless).Answer the following baker’s dozen questions.
Select the answer in each category that best describes you.
The code will only be as accurate as you are truthful.
(Skip the question to leave any quotient out of your code)
A truly remarkable effort John!!
Posted 09/10/2002 under
A Truly Remarkable Effort John!!
Considering that you have to run the country and all, to get time for this web log is gratifying - - - “Anyway, so the ALP are obviously not top-shit, they’re like, bottom-shit. And Crean has boobies.”
Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing
Posted 05/10/2002 under
Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing
A lot of people in the weblog world are asking “How can we make money doing this?” The answer is that most of us can’t. Weblogs are not a new kind of publishing that requires a new system of financial reward. Instead, weblogs mark a radical break. They are such an efficient tool for distributing the written word that they make publishing a financially worthless activity. It’s intuitively appealing to believe that by making the connection between writer and reader more direct, weblogs will improve the environment for direct payments as well, but the opposite is true. By removing the barriers to publishing, weblogs ensure that the few people who earn anything from their weblogs will make their money indirectly.
Modeling the Internet’s Large-Scale Topology
Posted 05/10/2002 under
Modeling the Internet’s Large-Scale Topology
Network generators that capture the Internet’s large-scale topology are crucial for the development of efficient routing protocols and modeling Internet traffic. Our ability to design realistic generators is limited by the incomplete understanding of the fundamental driving forces that affect the Internet’s evolution. By combining the most extensive data on the time evolution, topology and physical layout of the Internet, we identify the universal mechanisms that shape the Internet’s router and autonomous system level topology. We find that the physical layout of nodes form a fractal set, determined by population density patterns around the globe. The placement of links is driven by competition between preferential attachment and linear distance dependence, a marked departure from the currently employed exponential laws. The universal parameters that we extract significantly restrict the class of potentially correct Internet models, and indicate that the networks created by all available topology generators are significantly different from the Internet.
What Does the Internet Look Like?
Posted 05/10/2002 under
What Does the Internet Look Like?
It is less random than people thought
FEW questions are simultaneously so baffling and so significant as: ?what is the structure of the Internet?? Baffling, because the thing has grown without any planning or central organisation. Significant, because knowing how the routing computers that are the net’s physical embodiment are interconnected is vital if it is to be used properly. At the latest count, there were 228,265 of these routers around the world. They direct the packets of data that make up Internet traffic.
