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Clues on how to make websites. And blogs too.
Dvorak's Blogprimer
Understanding and Reading a Blog: a reader's (visitor's) guide.
The Cluetrain Manifesto
The end of business as usual. It is an essay, written collaboratively, with a central argument that consumers are empowered by the interactive web to make smarter purchase decisions, or something like that...
Dan Gillmor's The End of Objectivity (currently version 0.91 as of this writing)
Dan Gillmor tries to make a more honest alternative to the traditional journalistic credo of "objectivity," they are 1)thoroughness, 2)accuracy, 3)fairness and 4)transparency. The basis of his reasoning (more or less) is that no person can ever be truly "objective" eg. neutral and acceptable to all sides of an argument (It makes a lot of sense to me). It is especially evidenced by the various political blogs. What a blogger (read:journalist) can do without sacrificing personal beliefs and integrity is to try to be thorough, accurate, fair, and transparent in grounding his/her argument; as opposed to watering down his/her argument for the sake of political correctnes, taboo, or whatnots.
Rebecca Blood's essays
Rebecca's pocket is one of the first public weblogs, along with JOHO, and some others (I think). Rebecca has gone so far as to become a frequent speaker in several international blogging and web design seminars and simposium. She has even written a book.
Wikipedia on Weblogs
A very comprehensive description of blogs and blogging is included in this article. It also lists other content management systems (which is basically what a blogging system is) which are not limited to making blogs (unlike the ones below). Tools like Zope, Plone, etc.
BrainJar
BrainJar.com: Experiments in Web Programming. Lotsa Good stuffs: Javascript, CSS, XHTML, even ActiveX Action Scripts.
The CSS Zen Garden
Graphic Designers should take CSS seriously. This demo site shows why. The beautiful pages are made purely using XHTML and CSS; no Javascript tricks or plugins necessary. They even load fast (well, at least most of the samples do).
diveintomark
Mark Pilgrim's guide to markup.
Tim Berners-Lee
Creator of HTTP and WWW; NOT the Internet
W3C
the World Wide Web consortium: Leading the Web to Its Full Potential
the Web Design Group
an excellent resource! easy to digest resource for begginer HTML coders
Aside from BlogDrive, of course :) This list is definitely not exhaustive.
Blogger
"The Spot for your Blog." Also known as BlogSpot. One
of the original freeware web-based blogging tools, along with Xanga, Pitas, and some other ones that I
haven't even bothered to find. Blogger was the more succesful of
them, originally managed by Pyra Labs until sold to Google. Pyra
was eventually acquired by Google, too. Blogger is also the most
popular free blogging tool (by the number of blogs, based on some
survey or other I read somewhere)
Live Journal
One highlight of this tool is that it allows for "friends only" posts, meaning you can mark some of your entry as readable only by some specific group of other LiveJournal users which you have classified as 'friends.' Of course you can also make your LiveJournal public too.
Typepad
If I'm ever gonna pay for blogging services, I guess Typepad will get my money. Unless I wanna rent a domain name and server space while I'm at it, in which case I'd go with either one of the next two.
Movable Type, and Wordpress
These are the big two of the do-it-yourself blog tools. They are basically a collection of php and perl scripts which you install onto your own server. You're gonna have to at least get a basic acquaintance with the term LAMP, though arguably you only need to have a basic understanding of HTTP and FTP, along with basic knowledge of PHP and Perl. In either case MT and WP does not provide 'push button publishing' like the other tools listed above, but in turn offer total controll of your blogs.
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I guess these blogs kinda shows just really cool bloggers do with their personal space. Its either that or I just can't seem to put them in any other category :p But they're all interesting blogs.
Reading blogs can be addictive. Especially if you read the comments and trackbacks. And then they lead to ezine articles, web sites, online essays...
Blogs that every blog seem to link to...
Boing
Boing
"A directory of Wonderful things."
You'd have better luck following its RSS feeds daily; this collective
blog creates new posts at an average rate of six per hour. For twenty-
four hours a day. And they're all "wonderful things"
Dvorak
Uncensored
Tech columnist John C. Dvorak goes off-
topic. I always loved his stuffs, I've been reading his columns from
since the first time my dad got me a PC
Magazine subscription back in junior high; way back from the very
early nineties...
Kottke.org
a
former professional full-time web designer and graphic designer. Now a
full-time professional blogger. Kottke has been featured in
Wired, though I've known about him for a while back before then. I
think it was from a Boing Boing post featuring his oppinion on the
copyrighting of Girl Scout campfire songs (link to specific post
coming soon™)
Engadget
One of the two big gadget blogs
Gizmodo
One of the two big gadget blogs
InstaPundit.com
One of the big two US law blogs. Its also one of the first famous
blogs, gaining notoriety sometime after 9/11, becoming the first of
the 'Warbloggers,' sites which argue in favor for the US's war on
terrorism. The site has been referred to by Wired as the
blogfather. It gets a lot of hits anyway.
Wil Wheaton dot
Net
Get real. Seriously, you don't know Wil?
The Volokh
Conspiracy
One of the big two US law blogs. It
is left wing to Instapundit's right wing. I think. Yeah well, you
US citizens can explain this whole left-right thing better than I
can.
Though interesting, not too many specific links to them. Though I think they get a lot of hits anyway. I think.
Ad
Blog
By John Kuraoka aka. Long John Silver (ARRR!!!). An
advertising-free weblog covering the world of advertising. Discovered
through Shallow Thoughts. Wish he'd
make an RSS feed, though...
Andy
HoboTraveler
A godawfully-big & messy site of a
Hobo (I'll try to dig up a link to a more
definitive explanation of the term) travelling the world.
The Becker-
Posner Blog
Senator Becker and Judge Posner
began their blogging career guest-blogging at
Lawrence Lessig's blog. Obviously
they got addicted.
blorp
Justin Frankel, creator of WinAmp, Gnutella, and the JesuSonic CruzFX
10000!
Kevin Sites
Blog
Kevin Sites (yes that's his name; its not a
misspelling of Kevin's site) is a freelance war reporter. His writing
is great. I've posted about him before.
lizard_sf's
Xanga Site
First got acquainted with him when I stumbled into his home page,
mrlizard.com. I was attracted
to his talk about 'liberal anarchy.' If I'm not mistaken, Lizard SF
is also his legal name. When he stopped actively adding articles to
his home page (due to his new hobby of blogging at Xanga) sometime
around 2001, I stopped visiting his site. I only recently visited
back, and it turns out that he has managed to make some
interesting posts on his 'new' blog...
Winds of Change.NET
"Liberty. Discovery. Humanity. Victory."
The Sneeze
"Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions."
I think they were here from the beggining of blogging, way back in '94... Let's see if I can find some more...
JOHO
the Blog
one of the first bloggers, and the
initiator of The Cluetrain
Manifesto.
Rebecca's
Pocket
She has lots of interesting writings, the
first one I read being "The
History of Weblogs"
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Not just Free and Open Source Software, and not just Hacker Culture. I also wish to highlight other corners which show 'the other side.' The side I come from.
Armed and Dangerous
Eric S. Raymond: hacker, computer language expert, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." Also a gun loving liberal wiccan priest, an OSI founding member and "cyber-culture" sociologist. One of my favorite thing coming from him is his idea for the hacker emblem. He is also known as ESR.
Bruce Perens
an OSI founding member, he had a falling out with ESR shortly after the Netscape Open-Source episode and subsequently left. Also a former Pixar 3D coder, former HP Global Strategist, currently a software consultant who among others initiated the PalmSource project (let me dig around for that link, its around here somewhere...).
Eben Moglen
General counsel, FSF. He began his career at the gentle age of fifteen working for IBM, and upon graduating from high school decided to take up law at Harvard, instead. Note that this site is actually a repository of his papers and essays, instead of a regular blog.
Groklaw
Covering IT court cases in the 'States. Particularly the famous SCO Unix vs. IBM case; which wound up becoming a challenge to the GNU GPL. As a result, SCO is almost bankrupt, of course.
Inside Firefox
Ben Goodger's inside track on Firefox development
RMS blog
Richard Stallman aka. RMS, founder and head of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Project GNU. I should write much, much more about him. Soon™. But perhaps you can start getting to know him by reading his collected essays, most of which are available at the FSF's philosophy section.
7-Zip
The 7-Zip format is the compression format used by Power Archiver to achive its better-than-zip (meaning smaller copressed-to-original filesize ratio, even better than Rar, GZip, and BZip; though slightly slower) compression. And it's open source (although with some hooks to proprietary Win32 libraries; there are people working on it.
GameCritics.com
"smart reviews for serious gamers" I first encountered this site looking for an alternative to Gamespot. Sure, there's the Adrenaline Vault, IGN, and other game review sites (which I do visit too on occasions), but I like GameCritics in particular due to its more thoughtful reviews, often taking a cultural viewpoint of the reviewed games' content. Its features are also fun to read.
MSDN's Channel 9
Microsoft developers make a Wiki, purportedly inspired by the Cluetrain...
Open Source for Windows
A repository hosted by Sourceforge listing a collection of Free and/or Open Source Software which have been rebuilt or coded from scratch specifically to work under one or several version of "that other operating system" (as if most of the world knows any other, or has ever seen a computer not using it). It obviously lists Firefox and 7-Zip :p and such stallwarts as WinGIMP and Blender 3D.
Spread Firefox
Spread Firefox is a grasroots marketing communication campaign, initiated by the Mozilla foundation, to promote the browser. Interesting to note that the site is powered with software from Civic Space, the same group which organized Howard Dean's presidential camaign blog. A related site is Get Firefox.
Kuro5hin
Also known as K5. "Technology and culture, from the trenches." Some would associate K5 with Slashdot saying that K5's an alternative to it, but increasingly the user contributed articles of K5 has focused more on culture (perhaps arguably cyber culture) and less on specific technology issues.
Slashdot
"News for Nerds, Stuffs that Matters". The original geek discussion site. Many find it a useful repository for news of interest to geeks (I don't claim myself a geek but I do find /. useful too), but some complains that its discussions are a tad too juvenile, one in particular Bruce Perens. As do some regulars of K5.
The Open Source Initiative
Formed 1998, along with the open-sourcing of Netscape Navigator's source, as a marketing campaign for Free Software (Free as in Free Speech, not as in Free Beer), by (controversially) renaming it "Open Source", seeing that (in some oppinion) the term "Free Software" creates too much ambiguity to be understood correctly by the general public.
The Free Software Foundation
"Free as in Freedom". The organisation formed at 1986 by Richard M. Stallman to garner support for his GNU operating system and also to promote Free Software. The organization which gave birth to the GNU-GPL.
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On the 26th of December, 2004, one of the worst natural disaster in history occured. The death toll as of this writing is more than 200.000, while the number of those left injured and/or homeless number more than millions. The nations and areas affected are still struggling to get back on their feet. There may not be much that we can do for them, but please don't forget about them too soon.
Granted, I do have a vested interest since one of the areas affected is the birth island of my parents. And it is arguable that there has been too much cumulative attention given to the issue to the point that the disaster has become a mass-media commodity. But there is a point where it no longer becomes commercial enough to warrant commercial mass-media attention (and arguably that time has arrived now), and I wish to support those that still dedicate themselves to the issue despite of its un-trendiness.
There are other disasters. There are other areas needing help. This definitely does not mean much. This is also not the most I can do.
On exploring the aftermath, I have found the following sites usefull.
the SEA-EAT blog
Centralized international info blog covering the whole disaster area. These guys are still very much active, though their attention has focused mostly on the poorer areas affected (areas like Sri Lanka and Suriname if I'm not mistaken) (which is a good thing I might add), citing that enough attention has been given to Indonesia and Thailand (although I might add that not all areas of Indonesia get equal attention...).
Surf Aid International
A non-profit set-up by some surfers aiming in a sense "to give back to their favorite surfing spots." These guys are among the first to set up shop in Nias after the tsunamis struck (even before the national red cross and the US military). Before the disaster their primary focus for aid was the Mentawais, a few islands south of Nias. They maintain a (mostly) weekly update of how they're doing there.
NiasIsland.com
A community site set up by some Niasi webmasters where anyone (as far as I can tell mostly other Niasi) can post. Nias is my both my parents' birthplace.
tsunamihelp.info wiki
Managed by the editors of the SEA-EAT blog mentioned above. The site began as a Wikinews article, but after increased server activity due to the tsunami, they decided to move to their own server, to ease up the burden on the main Wikinews server, I think. Or something like that. Anyway during January the updates were still strong, but lately things have slowed down a bit. I guess people just move on...
IndonesiaHelp.org and IndonesiaHELP.blog
Two blogs set up by Indonesians. These too have slowed down their updates. Guess its better to use forums getting more hits and/or media attention...
Wikipedia
Wikipedia: Impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Indonesia. The main Wikipedia article concerning the tsunami-quake has gotten so large that the community have decided to split it into several dozen pages and turn it into a category. Another interesting sub-page is the humanitarian response page. Some have cited these Wikipedia posts as citizen journalism in action.
BBC News
Asia Quake Disaster: In Depth. One of the last major media that still keeps a daily track on the happenings surrounding the disaster areas. I've also heard somewhere in radio that Netherland's Radio Welleg Ombruch has also begun to create a weekly segment, but I haven't managed to search for their web presence yet.
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A friend once asked me why I seem to have this wealth of knowledge. Why I seem to be so smart. I would venture a guess that these links have a lot to do with it. The operative phrase here being "seem to be".
I used to have this ugly humongo link list on the left there. And as big as it is I keep wanting to add more (kinda like my bookmark habit, see below). So instead of making much more of a mess over there, I've decided to create a links page instead. It'd be kinda like a bunch of link-type blog posts mashed up together, only this time describing a bunch of links at the same time.
To keep things easy on the eyes, I've divided this links section into several categories. They are either in alphabetical order or some arbitrary psychological order I choose to impose upon you (your guess as good as mine). Generally they'll mostly be blogs (slipping the occasional website or two here and there), guessing that if you wanted a comprehensive guide to the Web you'd be better off browsing About.com, Yahoo! Directory or the Open Directory Project. Or Googlewhacking at random. You do remember don't you that there are other search engines aside from Google? And I haven't even mentioned Microsoft's new MSN Search (which I heard is quite good actually). And of course there's also Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.
If I'm actually excited enough about any link I list here I'll post an 80x15 blog-button linking to them on the main side section. Or make one for them if they don't have one. Or, if I really have to, any button the site happens to provide.
And another note: these pages are obviously still under development. I doubt they'd ever be done. Abandoned, perhaps, but not done.
So here goes...
*I do have some thoughts to review you guys linked at my sidebar; just gimme a second as I'm still experincing brain-freeze from converting my links section...
In adition, here's some links that are not quite really 'external,' but I'd like to keep them handy anyways...
And finally, here's my Mozilla/Firefox bookmarks file -- to repeat an old saying: I'm a packrat when it comes to hitting Ctrl-D, and I try to be systematic about it, but as you can see the list just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Sometimes I actually find the courage to delete an entry or two. Sometimes.
Currently its about 800kbytes. You have been warned.
See, I'm not so smart after all; I just spend waaay too much time online :p
a blogchalk is details about a personal (usually a personal) blog and its author. This not really a blogchalk in the technical sense of a search-engine attracting collection of meta-tags and keywords, but more a line by line description of who I am...
Male, born very-early eighties, Jakarta, Indonesia, from Niasi parents, doesn't surf, would love to learn how. Fresh undergraduate (majoring Communication Sciences, specialisation Advertising), not too bright in college. FOSS and Free Culture admirer, wanna-be hacker, purported digital visual graphic artist. Open- minded spiritual (extremely non-strict Lutheran Protestant Christian), too easily influenced, struggling man-boy. Interested in understanding reiki, prana, chi, and other forms of energy (wonder if I'll ever learn). My bloginality is INFP (get your bloginality from here). And finally, my real name is Ferdinand Fanötöna Zebua (but isn't it dangerous to tell the world one's real name? Some would say one should...)
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One particular issue I follow closely (which so far has not gained much attention from the rest of 'the real world') is the issue of Free Culture. It is an issue which at its heart seeks to correct how the world's effort to economically reward innovation has been skewered to reward some particularly big 'players' (such as the recording industry, big pharma, software juggernauts) with de-facto monopolies. Monopolies which in turn has stifled innovation.
To understand just exactly what I had said in that paragraph above, I suggest visiting the following blogs and sites.
A Copyfighter's Musings
I discovered him in the early days of my exploration into the Creative Commons movement. Forgot exactly just what he was talking about. He first began blogging during the DMCA protests, I think...
Creative Commons
Taken from the web page: "Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative works." It was started by Lawrence Lessig after losing the Eric Eldred copyright case, which seek to overturn the Sony Bono Copyright Act. I first discovered about the Creative Commons by clicking on a little button at the bottom of WWdN. Quite similar to the slightly big one you'll find on my sidebar.
Dan Gillmor on Grasroots Journalism, etc.
"A conversation about the future of journalism "by the people, for the people" -- and occasional other thoughts." I first got wind of him through a Lessig post hinting his book, "We the Media," itself a very interesting read. He first got famous as a reporter covering the Silicon Valley dot-com bubble, according to Wikipedia.
freeculture.org
"freeculture.org: to build upon." An international student organisation promoting cultural freedom. Review coming soon...
Lawrence Lessig
Author of the books "Free Culture", "The Future of Ideas", and "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace". He also founded the Creative Commons with a few other people. First read about him in an interview in Fortune (I'll dig up the link to that article someday). One of his first widely distributed electronics work is a presentation he made for Oscon 2000 (an 8 meg flash presentation still widely streamed through KaZaA and Bittorent today).
Union for the Public Domain
The public domain is a term describing the legal space occupied by works which is considered to be copyrighted by nobody eg. owned by the public. The UDP is an international organization (international in a sense; so far members consist mostly of Americans and Europeans) dedicated to the preservation of that space. Without the public domain, every creative work, every idea, would be owned by somebody. Imagine a copyright on the English language (its in the public domain).
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I don't write intellectually. I write expressively. I don't claim to be accurate, fair or thorough. I don't wanna get stuck on certain topics. Though I sometimes do. But not that often. I'd like to expand. I wanna write more poems. But I'll only upload them if they're good. I only rant about my life's hardships if it will rescue just a little bit of my sanity. I'm saner than I make myself out to be, though.
If I am an OS kernel, and I just had a kernel dump, I'd imagine that the text in this blog is what it would more or less look like.
There. Do you get it?
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