Sobjective Linkblog and GUID rant
I like linkblogs, when that's all there is too it. When mixed with regular content the link posts seem rather trollish. Examples:
- Programmer Indicted on Charges of Shade Code Accounting
- Quality is Job 1.1
- Shuttle debris new icon for Space Shuttle project?
Yet, in the trend of assimilation I find myself wanting to link to items that I find of interest and add an obscure yet luring reference. I don't as these can be taken out of context from any angle. (#2 is the best example of this, #1 is just a great title but authoer is obscured when I post it with little context here, where #3 I wanted to add context, but the more I added (and even kept), the worse it got. Perhaps I'm just not at this!)
On to "LINK vs. GUID in RSS feeds." I feel it is a 'vs.' argument. I like the whole blogging meme. When I see a post I like, I list to go to that post and possibley catch some ambience and comments. When bloggers fill in (at least Radio, and RSS) the LINK field with the non-perma link, I'm blasted to whatever inspired them to write their entry. It's all hit-or-miss as Radio defaultly fills in the perma-link of no insper-link is filled in. My point? I never got it that blogging was about commenting about stuff I read on the web and each blog entry was to be a link. Blog, Link, Guid, Perma-link. Bleah. Journaling and micro-content were my first expectations. Logging and critiquing Web content factors came much later. B
On the flip site, I like as a blog as a convenient Favorites menu (given a search engine as the primary look-up tool). In a commons arena, say a Wiki w/ Weblogs, this kind of blogging adds noise to the rest of the crowd where weblog entries are probably best as essay-ettes. Alternatives would be tools like the BookmarkBlogger allow you to do this on a periodic and filtered basis.
But then they'res the public aggregators...
Artima's Buzz feeds (at least through FeedReader) take me to the Artima entry and I have to find the 'view original' link to take me to the weblog I was hoping to end up at. It reminds me of pointer dereferencing errors of manipulating the pointer instead of the objects!
It's not really that big of deal to me. A minor annoyance that I've been watching for months now without gathering thoughts into a weblog entry. I need to go back, find the URL's, give a bunch of examples (w/ URL's) from Dave Winer, Fark, OxDECAFBAD, Phil's new linkblog, ..., but then I'd feel obligated to give my sobjective analysis of each one, which would lead me back to my original blogging style.
Hmm.. Sobjective. I like that. Take it for what it's worth. If I was a rich man I might take it to the (tm) office. Google finds mostly mispellings. I suppose a marketing analyst would say "SOBjective?!?", of which I'd reply: Isn't that the kind of obscure audacity that draws attention?
S bjective. :-)
11:00:42 PM  ,
|
