The Ultimate Blog Post 93
An anonymous reader writes to mention Lore Sjöberg's 'Ultimate Blog Post'. He goes over the history of the blog (dating back over 2000 years), and conveniently condenses out the perfect blog posts for a few notable sites. From the article: "Boing Boing: Crocheted replica of subway map cracks DRM on collection of old video games. FARK: Drunk frat boy in Florida has sex with underage donkey, sues Strong Bad for negligence. Still no cure for overused in-jokes. Slashdot: AMD, SCO patent MP3 over TCP/IP, sue ATI, EA. Microsoft probably responsible somehow. Engadget: Samsung releases new cell phone/mp3 player/camera/web browser/GPS/game player/wireless hub. Now in gray! Joystiq: Will Wright to design first-person Warcraft shooter for the Wii. Jack Thompson responds with aneurysm."
The Ultimate Comment (Score:5, Funny)
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Ultimate karma whoring thread hijack. (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/25/03646
Reminder that poster DID warn you about getting your browser jammed up.
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In other words, DailyKos fails it (again).
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Obligatory Apple user comment that Safari loads it just fine. Link to Apple [slashdot.org] but lacking "http://www." resulting in it giving a Slashdot 404.
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Apology for failure to preview previous post. Corrected link to Apple. [apple.com]
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Ultimate unnoticed side debate (Score:1, Offtopic)
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The Ultimate Insult (Score:2)
The Ultimate Obscure Reference (Score:2)
I guess there's nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.
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Some days, this place is a Beowulf cluster of comments like that.
line breaks help... (Score:5, Funny)
FARK: Drunk frat boy in Florida has sex with underage donkey, sues Strong Bad for negligence. Still no cure for overused in-jokes.
Slashdot: AMD, SCO patent MP3 over TCP/IP, sue ATI, EA. Microsoft probably responsible somehow.
Kottke: Elwin Festerator is the unsung inventor of the curly telephone cord. "I looked at a straight telephone cord, and I asked myself, Elwin, why can't that be curly? So I went out and got my brand-new curling gun, and I curled the hell out of it." Related link: New Yorker article on the Olympic curling team.
Engadget: Samsung releases new cell phone/mp3 player/camera/web browser/GPS/game player/wireless hub. Now in gray!
Joystiq: Will Wright to design first-person Warcraft shooter for the Wii. Jack Thompson responds with aneurysm.
Groklaw: Transcript of SCO deposition on previous court order concerning applicability of evidence to last year's motion to review earlier statements. Seriously, we love this stuff.
Daily Kos: Bush caught in three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Little Green Footballs: Bush enjoys triumphant three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Gawker: Paris Hilton does pretty much anything.
Cute Overload: A kitten licks a puppy while the puppy licks a bunny.
Fleshbot: Same as Cute Overload, only with coeds.
MacRumors: Apple is going to sue us for revealing that Apple is going to sue us.
MAKE blog: How to create a nuclear accelerator using a Flash drive, a Commodore 64 and a guy named Roger.
Metafilter: Unhelpful link text. Extra links added for padding that have little to do with the main topic of the entry. Are extremely loaded rhetorical questions the only thing that can save us now?
Digg: Hey, cool, someone wrote an article about Digg!
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Or is your comment some sort of ill-placed metahumor? (hint: Feigning the lack of a sense of humor for satire does not make you ironic. It makes you stupid.)
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Damn I wanted to know what kuro5hin would have had!
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We are so counter-culture it hurts, but we're still pissed that Rusty the fucker took our money and didn't improve the site. CMF my ass.
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This is not the ultimate blog post (Score:5, Funny)
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Apparently I have included too many caps. Slashcode whines. My karma laments its passed days of glory.
Hmm... (Score:3, Insightful)
I mean... It's kinda-sorta funny. I guess.
It doesn't really hold a candle to his "I'm Somebody's Fetish" T-shirts, though.
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This actually makes sense, if you consider how most Slashdotters seem to feel towards the mainstream media (they don't seem to be too fond of it) and everything "open source" (media included). If the
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I don't have a problem using a blog as a news source. Though I withhold judgement until some confirmation comes. However, most of the blogs linked by Slashdot are actually just cut-and-pasted from "traditional" media, though admittedly usually with some spelling mistakes, groundless speculation and a misleading headline added.
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You do that with "normal" news too, right?
I mean, the shit [zombietime.com] that passes [flounder.com] for "unbiased" news [michellemalkin.com] lately [youtube.com] is pretty freaky.
What's more, of those obvious frauds I linked to, only one really got to be a big story; most of the rest non-blog readers will be ignorant of, even though they're about as well established as a proof of a lie or manipulation can possibly be.
The media is 100% untrustworthy on war reporting, and it's hard to see it as anything but deliber
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Scouring the net for news is just sad, if you confirm the story it's common sense, if you dig deeper in order to confirm it's journalism, and if you put all your stories together to form a coherent picture it's good journalism.
Eventually we might get some of that on Slashdot but I won't hold my breath.
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Oh, I liked the Metafilter one. Mainly because that's how I see a lot of 'A list' bloggers entries. Just stupid undescribed links. It reminded me a lot of the Winer.
And remember, God never burdens us with more ice cream sandwiches than we can eat.
Adsense nonsense (Score:1)
You won't see a single ad on my blog.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that your life is not enhanced by trying to always sell crap to everyone all the time?
The best Web 2.0 for me would be a throwback to a time when advetisers had not yet discovered the net. Now there's a concept - an advertising free backbone! Call it Web -2!
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They forgot: (Score:5, Funny)
MySpace: OMG! T0day, me slit wrists again. i so emo! it cuz i make video for knew my chemical romance song! watch it [here]! comment me plz! thx bai!
Xanga: i scraped knee today when goig to kindergarten. dreamt about pony. hope toof fairi gives me $$ so i can bye lickorish. dreamt of ponies lsat night!
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OMG PONIES!!!
YAY FOR PONIES, JUST YAY!
sorry couldn't resist, it's just that any reference to ponies kicks it off...
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It was funny, yeah, but it's not meant to be taken seriously. It'd be like summarising Slashdot as geeks with no social life who live in their mother's basement and write "First Post!" all the time. We can laugh at it, but I'd be worried if someone thought that was a genuine summary of here...
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Nope... (Score:2)
You're off my friends list!
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(Xanga Comment ): A/S/L?
2000 years? (Score:2, Funny)
IIRC 'blog' is short for 'weblog'. I must be tired or something, because I fail to grasp how a WebLog can predate the Web by aprox. 1970 years...
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The Egyptians are going to be pissed (Score:3, Interesting)
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Short version (Score:2, Insightful)
Lore Sjoberg (Score:3, Informative)
The only good blog post ... (Score:2)
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From Wikipedia: [wikipedia.org]
Aaaaaand... [wikipedia.org]
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This does not cover the full definition. It means "web log" and is a record of someone's web surfing. And in case you didn't realize, comments on slashdot are displayed in chron
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What you're suffering from is a bad case of cognitive dissonance: "I like Slashdot. I don't like blogs. Therefore, Slashdot is not a blog."
90% of the posts on Slashdot are links to other websites, decorated with two or three sentenc
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Actually, I don't like slashdot that much. I am saying slashdot is not a blog, because slashdot is not a blog, not because I am a huge fan of slashdot.
When your definition of a word, especially a newly coined one, differs from that of almost everyone else who uses it regularly, you might want to reconsider your definition.
The definition becomes pointless is everything
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Faulty logic. Yes, comments are indeed displayed in chronological order. However, as per the definition, entries are displayed in reverse chronological order (newest at the top).
I can tell you really WANT slashdot to be a forum, but the facts are confounding you at every turn. It's a technology news BLOG that allows comments. Slightly altering definitions presented to you don't change tha
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Exactly. Blogs are driven by the ego of a single writer, even if they allow comments. Slashdot is a technology news site that allows comments.
No comment? (Score:1)
- RG>
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Big deal (Score:2)
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Great introduction, there. (Score:2, Funny)
"Blog" itself is short for "weblog," which is short for "we blog because we weren't very popular in high school and we're trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people."
Oh come on, now. When you consider the fact that a blog is nothing more than someone's diary
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Nothing new here, move along. (Score:1)
Hmmm, what can I say here... (Score:3, Informative)
Accurate (Score:2)
Digg: Hey, cool, someone wrote an article about Digg!
I'd add to that also, "btw, here's a story from three years ago on the front page!"
The Romans? (Score:1)
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Boing Boing (Score:1)
The signature (Score:2)
"Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a handyman, a handicapper and a handmaiden."
I think I better put that in my blog! And yes I'm going to be blogging about this!