In keeping with the design and functionality around here being a good two or three years behind the curve, I’ve gone ahead and enabled Trackback and tried to fix up the RSS feeds (RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0). Please let me know if I broke anything. (Also, if there’s a quick way to allow trackbacks on all the old posts without going through and doing it manually, that’d be helpful to know too.)
Category: Blog Nation
Senryu in the City.
“How can we fix us? The fights, the silence . . . I know! Let’s get a puppy!” A hearty congrats to Joel Derfner, who’s both a friend from college and the brother/roommate of a good friend here at Columbia, on the publication of his recent book, Gay Haiku (a project which originated on his blog…assuredly a better way to make this hobby pay than the Kottke route.)
Property of Craig.
A very happy 5th Blogday to the consistently well-written, entertaining, and informative Booknotes. Here’s to many more.
Live from the UK.
He’s seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser gate…and he’s always made sure to post about it soon afterwards at LinkMachineGo, another excellent blog joining the ranks of recent five-year veterans. Congrats! (Somewhere, Grant Morrison is rejoicing.)
Five Alive.
Happy recent 5th blogdays to Quiddity, one of the web’s best-kept secrets for quality fangirl linkage, to Neilalien, bane of Dormammu and otherworldly portal to all things Strange in this realm, and to Le Blogeur, who’s been eyeing the blog nation since before it was hip….we’ve come a long way, Sally/Renton.
Arrr.
Sorry, Ted – You may be The Late Adopter, but now we have an even later adopter in the Columbia History Department — On Friday, ancient historian Jason Governale set sail with his new blog Corsairs United. Happy hunting.
Recurring Effect.
Found while perusing the Metafilter dust-up (via LinkMachineGo) that ensued after Kottke‘s recent decision to quit his job and blog for food (I stopped reading Kottke years ago, but power to him) — Dan Hartung, one of the earliest old-school bloggers and former proprietor of Lake Effect, has returned to the game with Stilicho. Welcome back!
New Looks, New Voices.
With spring just around the corner, old blog stalwarts Lots of Co. and Do You Feel Loved? (and, for that matter, even the ghastly-retro AICN) get spiffy new redesigns. And, if you stop by GitM mainly for the politics, I have two newly-born blogs of note for you. My Columbia colleague Ted Wilkinson (currently working on a dissertation on Pat Brown) has set up shop over at The Late Adopter, and Ben Kirby, an old friend and political hand from DC, is now posting at The Spencerian. All of the above are well worth checking out.
Missed Connection.
Hmmm…I tried to update this morning and was locked out of MT…”Got an error: Bad ObjectDriver config: Connection error: Too many connections.” It seems fixed now — still, it’s random snafus like these that make me think I really need to get wiser about how to troubleshoot such issues.
Watching the Detectives.
A hearty congrats to Chris at Do You Feel Loved?, who procured one of his dream jobs yesterday, and will be working for none other than DC Comics starting next week. With this and Batman Begins, is Detective Comics back for the ’05?