Comments on: Has it been quiet? http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/04/29/has-it-been-quiet It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:29:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 By: Buzz Andersen http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/04/29/has-it-been-quiet/comment-page-1#comment-1160 Buzz Andersen Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=516#comment-1160 <p>I've noticed that too. I've almost wondered if the blogosphere is sort of running out of gas or something.</p> I’ve noticed that too. I’ve almost wondered if the blogosphere is sort of running out of gas or something.

]]> By: Chris Snyder http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/04/29/has-it-been-quiet/comment-page-1#comment-1161 Chris Snyder Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=516#comment-1161 <p>Fewer unemployed/underemployed technocrati?</p> <p>Also, I wonder how much online journaling has gone underground, hidden behind access control or just not posted to the web for personal, professional, or legal reasons?</p> Fewer unemployed/underemployed technocrati?

Also, I wonder how much online journaling has gone underground, hidden behind access control or just not posted to the web for personal, professional, or legal reasons?

]]> By: fluffy http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/04/29/has-it-been-quiet/comment-page-1#comment-1162 fluffy Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=516#comment-1162 <p>Hey, even Kottke's been pretty quiet lately. I think maybe the buzz over weblogs has just died down; I mean, how long can people weblog about weblogging about conferences about weblogging about kitten pictures?</p> Hey, even Kottke’s been pretty quiet lately. I think maybe the buzz over weblogs has just died down; I mean, how long can people weblog about weblogging about conferences about weblogging about kitten pictures?

]]> By: Phil Ringnalda http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/04/29/has-it-been-quiet/comment-page-1#comment-1163 Phil Ringnalda Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=516#comment-1163 <p>Eh, you've been around long enough to have gone through several of these, haven't you? Just like the way stuff sweeps through dorms or boarding schools where lots of overly open and suggestible people are crammed together, we all notice a bit of a slowdown, so we have less to react to, so then someone writes about it being slow...</p> <p>The nice thing is that every single time, there are even more new people who aren't being infected, and may even still be in their first flush of infatuation with weblogs, posting like rats with a crack dispensing lever. Pick a keyword that you're interested in, and trot it over to Feedster or PubSub or one of the dozens of others, and find some new stuff to read, poke around their blogrolls, basically act like it's 2000 (or whatever your year was) again. Or, look through your referrers (how long has it been?) for people you don't recognize linking to you, and see what they have to say. Either way, does wonders for me.</p> Eh, you’ve been around long enough to have gone through several of these, haven’t you? Just like the way stuff sweeps through dorms or boarding schools where lots of overly open and suggestible people are crammed together, we all notice a bit of a slowdown, so we have less to react to, so then someone writes about it being slow…

The nice thing is that every single time, there are even more new people who aren’t being infected, and may even still be in their first flush of infatuation with weblogs, posting like rats with a crack dispensing lever. Pick a keyword that you’re interested in, and trot it over to Feedster or PubSub or one of the dozens of others, and find some new stuff to read, poke around their blogrolls, basically act like it’s 2000 (or whatever your year was) again. Or, look through your referrers (how long has it been?) for people you don’t recognize linking to you, and see what they have to say. Either way, does wonders for me.

]]> By: Phillip Pearson http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/04/29/has-it-been-quiet/comment-page-1#comment-1164 Phillip Pearson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=516#comment-1164 <p>Feels quiet to me. Doesn't seem like a lot of interesting public projects are in action right now. IMHO the good stuff is going on behind closed doors - Bloglines, Technorati, Six Apart, Google, etc. UserLand, which always seemed to be at the center of anything new and interesting, is in maintenance mode, and the Atom boys are just quietly doing their stuff. Don't know what the RDF people are into right now. Can't think of anything cool to do with the Topic Exchange, and I'm running out of disk space and bandwidth anyway. Marc Canter et all are going strong with the PeopleAggregator open source SNS project, but I don't exactly know where they're aiming there.</p> <p>Umm ...</p> Feels quiet to me. Doesn’t seem like a lot of interesting public projects are in action right now. IMHO the good stuff is going on behind closed doors - Bloglines, Technorati, Six Apart, Google, etc. UserLand, which always seemed to be at the center of anything new and interesting, is in maintenance mode, and the Atom boys are just quietly doing their stuff. Don’t know what the RDF people are into right now. Can’t think of anything cool to do with the Topic Exchange, and I’m running out of disk space and bandwidth anyway. Marc Canter et all are going strong with the PeopleAggregator open source SNS project, but I don’t exactly know where they’re aiming there.

Umm …

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