Questions Answered
When are you going to cross the pond and have a drink with Neilalien in NYC? One shot for each year blogging makes ten for you and ten for me.
Ten years... Are we both crazy or what? :)
My wife has friends in NYC so I suspect I'll definitely be over there in the next couple of years for sure. I will be in touch. Two questions back at you: (a) are there any bars in or around 177a Bleeker Street?(b) can your alien physiology cope with our earth alcohol?
So having all enthusiastically leapt aboard this self-centred internet meme wagon, I have two questions for you: (a) do you feel SPECIAL? (b) how long do we think we've got left before it's all 'So Last Week'? (Especially as, well, it's Friday. Innit.) by uwitness
(a) Of course I feel special. We are all special unique snowflakes in bloggerdom.
(b) It was over the moment I signed up.
What *kind* of confessional stuff *do* you do on the internet?
I have a personal twitter that is pretty easy to find if you want to stalk me. I don't update it that often.
Given all the platforms for blogging or whatever we call it this week, how do you filter what you read?
I use Google Reader to quickly surf stuff and some google alerts on various topics I'm interested in. I also use Yahoo Pipes to generate some custom RSS feeds (mainly aggregating groups of pages together).
Twitters good for fresh links.
Two sources I look at a lot are Google Recommended Items in Google Reader (I use the like button and it's suggestions are good) and Popurls.com.
When did you first fall in love?
I don't do this kind confessional stuff on the internet. Sorry. If you want to know the answer find me get me drunk and happy. Then ask the question...
Favorite Neal Stephenson novel? Also have you ever seen this marvellous picture before? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XMPh28LDNJ0/S2LwcW5EoBI/AAAAAAAAFL0/y7LN2X1e9NQ/s1600-h/drac.jpg
undoubtedly Cryptonomicon and no I've not seen that marvellous picture - I've added it to my list of things to be blogged. :)
What's your favorite Grant Morrison work, and why?
Doom Patrol - because it was jampacked with crazy ideas and early GM at his very best. "REVERTH MY BUTTOCKTH SERGEANT MAJOR!" - need I say more?
Did you know there is a comma in your URL on your formspring page? (http://www,timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/) by jovike
fixed. thanks!
Have you ever linked to a picture of a cute kitten? by miketd
I posted a lolcat I created once...
In this age of link-and-quote del.icio.us bookmarking, are we all LinkMachineGo now? by kevandotorg
I'd add twitter linking and tumbling to that. I'd say we are all Jorn Barger now. You take your pick. The first page on the internet was a page of links to interesting things. Maybe the last one will be too... :)
Are you affected by this Blogger FTP debacle or are you on a different blog publishing set-up? by jovike
I gave up on Blogger many years ago took the hit and converted over to Wordpress around the time they introduced the new templating system in Blogger.
Did you have a Barbelith account, Darren? Are/were you a Barbelith?
I was on Barbelith but seem to recollect only contributing to the comics forum. It never really grabbed me - I've always preferred spending my time looking at blogs rather than online forums.
Are you tempted to do more thought-blogging rather than just link-blogging?
i enjoy struggling against the limitations of link-blogging but do go through phases of wanting to write longer pieces. I'd probably find writing longer pieces far to time consuming.
What do you think are the major differences between personal blogs now, and when we all started? by orbyn
I would say the major change is the way personal blogging has spread out over a number of services (flickr, twitter, tumblr etc). back in the day I could follow your blog and get the full orbyn experience. not anymore. I think this is diminishing blogging - I though lifestreams might solve this but I find they are quite bland in practice.
I also miss the sense of community and the fun that was part early blogging but I suspect that as the community got larger it was impossible to sustain that.
Is Zaphod talking yet? (I've lost track of the months, so this may well be a very silly question.) by miketd
zaphod is talking with a very limited vocab. he can say "mummy", "daddy", "nah" (no), "batman", "bubbles" and "teatime". we're very proud and obviously think he's a genius.
Is it true that all these years you've really kept a 'secret' blog where you write posts about the minutiae of your daily life? And post kitten photos?
no, I've never kept a secret blog. If you want the full LMG experience you need to follow flickr, facebook, twitter and read the blog.
What domain/site names did you consider before going with Time/Linkmachinego? Can you remember back that far? by orbyn
timemachinego came first by a few months - i'm a massive grant morrison fan and TMG being available as .com made it a no brainer. LinkMachineGo was suggested by my long suffering flatmate a bit later when i attempting to blog for the first time. I might also been influenced by Tom Coates barbelith site but don't remember exactly when i first looked at his site.
