February 29, 2004
Ethan and Ben
12:58 UTC » Emergent Democracy - Photo
That' me holding Ben
Ethan and BenA lot of the people working on emergent democracy look founding fatherish. I wonder if you start looking like a founding father after you start pondering or whether looking in the mirror each day causes you to go down the "pondering about democracy" path. Where does that put me?At the Emerging Tech conference, more than one person noted the striking resemblance between Ethan Zuckerman and Benjamin Franklin. Coincidence? You decide.
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February 28, 2004
Mustached Japanese soldiers in Iraq and Oshin
23:38 UTC » Japanese Culture - Warblogging
Interesting article by Mike Rogers describing the influence of the popular Japanese TV drama Oshin and mustached Japanese soldiers in Iraq. Also some interesting perspectives about the ability to identify with suffering and Japan's relationship with the Middle East.
Alright, think about Oshin. Think about that story and that kind of suffering. I don't think Americans can relate to that. Of course Japanese can.And, get this: Oshin has been broadcast in most Middle Eastern countries for at least the last 12 years. Iran? Sure. According to the Nikkei Shimbun News Oshin scores a remarkable 82% viewer rating; Iraq? Of course 76.7%; Thailand? 81.6%; China!? I thought most Chinese people hate Japanese because of the war! Yeah, well, maybe so, but they love Oshin! 75.9% viewer rating in China; Poland? 70%.
Gee, I wonder if the people in the Middle East can relate to this kind of starvation, suffering, and pain? Of course they can.
Which brings me to the next part of this puzzle: The Japanese military has ordered all troops in Iraq to grow beards and moustaches. Weird, eh? Well, no... Smart. Besides understanding the ways of society in the Middle-East, Oshin's husband has a moustache. Don't believe me? Check this out:
Via Bob
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A text message from Iran
23:11 UTC » Global Politics - Wireless and Mobile
Newsweek"We will not take part in the funeral for freedom."A cell-phone text message circulated in Iran to protest against a clampdown on reformists in last weeks of parliamentary elections.
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Avantouinti!
21:30 UTC » Health and Medicine - Joi's Diary
I woke up this morning with a headache and decided I needed to get my circulation going. I told Marko and he suggested avantouinti. Hmmm...
Marko took me to the Finnish Sauna Society sauna where we hung out in traditional smoke saunas for awhile with a bunch of naked Finnish men. The saunas were covered in soot from the way they prepare them using real wood fires. The experience was about as similar to saunas back home as eating real sushi in Japan is similar to eating California supermarket sushi.
After we were thoroughly heated, we sauntered out to a hole in the ocean and jumped in. Avantouinti! ("ice hole swimming" in Finnish) For a moment I lost touch with my limbs and wasn't sure I'd make it out, but I survived. Then, we did a rinse, heat, repeat. The second time around was much easier and thoroughly enjoyable and it did indeed get my circulation going.
One funny thing I noticed was that every time something strange was about to happen, Marko would say, "this is VERY traditional." I remember when I was taking Marko around Japan, that's what I would say to him when I was about to feed him something pretty weird.
Anyway, Marko may have been trying to get me back for feeding him snapping turtle in Kyoto, but I enjoyed my avantouinti very much and recommend it to anyone who gets a chance.
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I'm in Orkut jail
I was making fun of Marc Canter because he kept on ending up in Orkut jail, but I got this message today when I tried to invite a friend into Orkut.
To keep orkut.com a trusted community, we have implemented an automated system that tries to identify members who may be abusing it. While your account is being reviewed, you will still be able to login, but the system will prevent you from performing any actions such as inviting friends or posting messages.I haven't invited very many people and have only sent three private messages. I wonder what the triggers are. Maybe approving too many friend request. Hmm...If your account has been flagged by mistake, we're very sorry. Certain actions can trigger our alarm by accident. If you think you have been mistakenly suspended, please send an email to help+blocked@orkut.com with your username, and we'll review your account as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Loic in Germany
13:37 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Joi's Diary - Social Software
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February 27, 2004
grps roaming works... technically
23:59 UTC » Wireless and Mobile
I spent last month so excited by my Nokia 6600. Land in a random city, flip open my PowerBook, click, "connect" and I was immediately online via bluetooth, gprs and my T-Mobile roaming. Internet everywhere. It was sooo cool... until I got my bill. $3500 for one month of mobile abandon. At $3500 / month, I would say that it works, "technically" but is totally unacceptable socially and economically. It's like having a PowerBook stolen from the carriers and being beaten over the head with the stupid stick. It reminds me of the "good old days" of x.25. What's the point of broadband wireless unless people can afford it. This trip I'm hunting down the free wifi and only using grps when absolutely necessary.
NOTE TO CARRIERS: Make gprs cheap, flat fee and with free roaming or else... or else... you suck and I'm going to take my marbles and go play on 802.11.
UPDATE: I just got a Sonera account so I don't have to roam in Finland. It's about $20 for up to 100MB.
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Python on the 6600
23:17 UTC » Python Fun - Wireless and Mobile
I just saw python running on the Nokia 6600. Soo cool. I can't wait to get my hands on it. You may have heard, but python is coming first, not perl. My next python script will be a bot from my phone.
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TV wayback machine
A cool site with TV clips from the 60's.
via Markoff
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February 26, 2004
Echoing some echo chamber thoughts
07:41 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Emergent Democracy - Global Politics - Social Software
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February 25, 2004
Off to Helsinki
I'm off to Helsinki. See you on the other side. Thanks for all the sushi!
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Seven years in the search business
06:22 UTC » Joi's Diary - Search
Yesterday I visited Google Japan's offices then later had dinner with Yajima-san, the CEO of Digital Advertising Consortium (DAC).
We talked a lot about the future of blogging as well as the good old days. Sato-san who was recruited by Google to get the Tokyo office going and Mr. Yajima both worked with me in the early days of getting Infoseek Japan going. We recruited Sato-san from Asatsu to startup Infoseek Japan inside of Digital Garage and Yajima-san was at Hakuhodo in charge of looking at the Internet advertising business.
My company Digital Garage had just lost our offer to do Yahoo Japan because Softbank invested in the parent company in the US and got to do Japan as part of the deal. Softbank offered to give us 1% of Yahoo Japan in exchange for helping them with Yahoo Japan, but we told them to take a hike. (In retrospect, maybe we should have done this deal.) Anyway, I shifted gears and we ended up with Infoseek. I was convinced that search engines were going to be the next big thing.
Softbank needed to get Yahoo Japan's business going so they joined forces with Dentsu the biggest ad agency in Japan to make an ad rep company called Cyber Communications Inc. (CCI). In response, we decided to set up a competing ad rep company. It turns out that all of the non-Dentsu ad agencies combined is about equal to the total revenue of Dentsu. Hayashi-san, my partner at Digital Garage and I gathered all of the other ad agencies together and put together the first consortium of its kind in Japan. We spent close to six months explaining the concept of banner ads and ad impressions. I remember that we couldn't get the ad agencies to understand the notion of ad impressions and how ad prices should be set by page views and not page position. Yahoo was an easier sell because they framed their pitch in old-media terms. IE, the "top page" will cost you X, sponsorship of section Y would cost you Z, etc. I remember explaining that we should be able to target ads based on what people are searching for and that eventually you would even be able to track click-through rates and disintermediate ad sales guys. No one believed me. They did believe me enough to rally against Dentsu/Softbank and form DAC with us to sell Infoseek ads. The first year, our guys were in the market competing with Yahoo Japan, which had a clear head start and we struggled to make a million dollars in sales. That was about seven years ago. Now DAC is public and I'm happy to hear they've got about $100M in revenue and are neck-to-neck with CCI.
Yesterday, we joked about how I was basically dreaming about Google AdSense and AdWords seven years ago. We also talked about how Steve Kirsch, the founder and Chairman of Infoseek was right and the others were wrong. Steve wanted to keep working on the Infoseek search engine, but in the "portal days" Infoseek tried to become a media portal, hiring media people and eventually being acquired by Disney. Infoseek pursued a big media strategy and dropped its focus on search. It's not clear whether Infoseek would have been able to compete with Google, but if they had stayed "just a search engine" maybe they could have given Sergey and Larry a run for the money.
Anyway, seven years after I was getting all excited about search, the search engine has finally become an essential part of the Internet. Even Yahoo has built its own search engine. Too bad it's Google and not Infoseek. ;-p
Having said that, Infoseek Japan still exists and is the third largest portal in Japan after Yahoo and MSN. It is owned by Rakuten and I continue to actively advise the group. Infoseek Japan is a strong profitable portal business but alas, it uses Google for its search results. Considering the fact that most of the original search engine people are gone, I think that Sato-san, Yajima-san and I have probably been in the Internet search engine business longer than just about anyone else in the world... scary thought.
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February 24, 2004
We are not an echo chamber!
14:35 UTC » Blogging about Blogging
NO NO NO No No no no! We're not an echo chamber!
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Einstein on intellect and personality
07:53 UTC » Advanced Science - Joi's Diary
Albert Einstein'We should take care not to make the intellect our god; - it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.'
via JV
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February 23, 2004
Flashmob supercomputer
16:01 UTC » Moblogging - Software
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Jimmy Carter blogs Africa
13:41 UTC » Activism - Blogging about Blogging - Global Politics
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February 22, 2004
Caring about the rest of the world
07:26 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Emergent Democracy - Global Politics - Movies - Reforming Japanese Democracy
As a child I travelled a lot, but mostly between US and Japan. I dealt with a lot of bicultural issues, but the rest of the world seemed far away. In the 90's I started going to Europe and Asia more, but it was always to "civilized" places.
Several years ago, I became actively involved in trying to reform Japan and I was allowed to be quite vocal about this. Last year, I gave a rant at Davos about how broken Japanese democracy was. Afterwards, Ms. Ogata, the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees told me that I should stop ranting as a Japanese and think more about global democracy and global issues. These words stuck with me and last year I tried to think about blogs and emergent democracy outside of the Japanese context. With the US elections front and center, the obvious place to try to apply these thoughts was the US. Having spent a year or so thinking about US politics, I realize how important the US election is, but I'm drawn more and more to countries that need more help.
I think many of us avoid thinking about or worrying about the rest of the world. We hear people talking about poverty, but it sounds like something in some far away country on a National Geographic special. Most people just don't care. To be honest, I cared, but in retrospect, I didn't REALLY care. I guess better late than never. As I prepare for my trip to Africa with Ethan and try to figure out exactly how I can contribute and what I should be studying, I'm drawn back to organizations such as the UNHCR. On the flight back to Japan, I saw Beyond Borders, a movie about relief work and the UNHCR, starring Angelina Jolie. The movie captured some of the experiences of being an activist on a global level and I watched it thinking about what drove some people to such high levels of commitment. Googling around, I found Angelina Jolie's journal from her mission to Russia last year. (We need to get her a blog...) What is really striking to me and something that I'm trying understand is the process that people go through to reach a higher level of caring for human beings outside of their immediate circle. I think that this process holds the key for some of the important contributions that technologies can make.
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February 21, 2004
Charging for vanity
12:33 UTC » Heckling - Social Software
I was excited when I got my entry in the Internet Movie Database. I was thinking about how vain it was to be excited by this. It felt like being in some sort of elite Orkut. Just like Orkut, there was a "click here to add photo".
*click*
$35 - Submit a Person's Headshot or a Film's Poster*click*
Replace the "no headshot" or "no poster" icon on their main page with a headshot/poster or change the current headshot/poster to a new one.$10 - Submit a Gallery Photo for a Film or Person
Add an image to your film's "studio stills" gallery or your personal "publicity photos" portfolio.
Why Do I Have To Pay?Ahh, the business model. ;-)When you use this service you get to make sure the image you want is on the first page people see when they look you up or look up your film, and/or that there are images you have chosen in the photo gallery.
Without this service, you leave all the decisions of what is used, when it is used, and if it is used, entirely up to fate and our editors.
There are many factors that make it just too expensive for us to provide this service for free, so we have to charge you for it or not provide it at all.
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mozCC
11:54 UTC » Creative Commons - Software
Larry showed me mozCC, a cool plugin for Mozilla based browsers that shows the Creative Commons license of a page on the browser window margin and also lets you examine the license in more detail. Can someone make this for IE and Safari?
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Help me find sites for the Webby Awards Community Category
I'm a Nominating Judge in The Webby Awards Community Category. Help me out by suggesting cool community sites.
Community: Sites creating and facilitating online community, connectedness and/or communication around shared interests. These sites can target either a broad-based or niche audience.
Please use this web form to submit your suggestions to me.
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NKzone needs citizen-reporters in Tokyo and Seoul
08:36 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Human Rights - Media and Journalism
NKzone, the North Korean blog needs citizen bloggers to cover the Life Funds for North Korean Refugees (LFNKR) in Tokyo on Feb 22 and two human rights events in Seoul on Feb 23. If you're available, please help us out.
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February 20, 2004
Bloggers will be reporters tomorrow in Iran
18:15 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Emergent Democracy - Global Politics - Media and Journalism
A very important day for Iran and a chance for blogs to make a difference.hoderBloggers will be reporters tomorrow in IranI'm trying to encourage Iranian blogger to go out tomorrow, the election day, and report what they see and hear in their city and blog it. I also plan to gather all posts related to it in one place either in my own Persian blog or in Sobhaneh, the collective news blog.
I also consider a place in iranFilter for those Iranian who know English to provide translations the reports that are gathered in Persian.
This can be the 9/11 for Persian blogosphere. It's the first event that potentially engages every body in every city in Iran and blogs can play a huge role in reporting the news, rumors, and all those things that traditional journalists usually miss.
Iranian bloggers do not vote tomorrow, but the blog.
Update: special page on iranFilter is now set up and it's ready for Persian bloggers' covereage on the election day. Please help us by translating whatever you find interesting in Persian sources into English.
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Back to Tokyo
I'm at the San Francisco airport about to leave for Tokyo. See you on the other side. It's been fun hanging out in the US with everyone.
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February 19, 2004
Yahoo Search
I'm sure everyone's seen this by now, but Yahoo has just rolled out their own search engine. I wonder what this will mean for Google. It sure does look a lot like Google, which I guess is good.
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How to get free iTunes from Pepsi with every bottle
If you tilt a sealed, new Pepsi bottle at 25 degrees and squint at the underside of the cap, you can tell whether it's a winning free-iTunes-track bottle or a try-again bottle. Link (via Futurismic)I guess this means the bloggers will be getting the music. ;-)
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February 18, 2004
mobloggin' aibo
Phillip Torrone has programmed his aibo (robot dog) to moblog.
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Welcome to my blog NYU Digital Journalism course
08:25 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Media and Journalism
Welcome to my blog NYU Digital Journalism course, Spring '04. ;-)
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Anonymity on the Internet
03:45 UTC » Privacy - Technology Controversy
Seth says he wants to banish anonymous communications.
I disagree. Although most vicious attacks I have received have been anonymous, I still believe there is a role for anonymity and that the value outweighs the cost.Seth GodinVirus writers are always anonymous.Vicious political lies (with faked photoshop photos of political leaders, or false innuendo about personal lives) are always anonymous as well.
Spam is anonymous.
eBay fraudsters are anonymous too.
It seems as though virtually all of the problems of the Net stem from this one flaw, and its one I’ve riffed on before. If we can eliminate anonymity online, we create a far more civil place.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has a project on anonymous communication on the Internet. They list a few of cases where we might need anonymous communication on the Internet.
Remember that the Internet is one of the few tools for a variety of people who are at risk including whistle-blowers and human rights workers. It is very difficult or impossible to "fix" the Internet without breaking it for others.AAASCase 1 - The Crimesolvers Website
Case 2 - Chatting Online About Addiction
Case 3 - The Case(s) of the Hot News Tips
Case 4 - An Anonymous Computer Hotline: Is it Worth the Costs?
Case 5 - Terror in Elb!
Case 6 - Good Communication Gone Bad
Case 7 - His Word Against Whose?
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February 17, 2004
kickme
19:35 UTC » Emergent Democracy - Heckling - Humor
;-)
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So Much for The Kerry Rumor?
17:08 UTC » Media and Journalism - US Policy and Politics
Statement from woman and parents about rumors linking her to Sen. John Kerry - The Associated Press, Monday, February 16, 2004
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Presidents’ Day lesson: the mayor’s duty
03:35 UTC » Gender - US Policy and Politics
Friends of mine who have been waiting for a long time were finally married as San Francisco allowed same-sex marriages. It was a day of joy. We drove by City Hall here and saw a huge line of people waiting to get married. This is a great thing. Dan Gillmor has sparked an interesting discussion about the legal ramifications of the Mayor's decision and Lawrence Lessig comments on this.
Lawrence LessigPresidents’ Day lesson: the mayor’s dutyThe Mayor of San Francisco has decided that a state law is unconstitutional under the state constitution, and has therefore ordered city clerks to disobey the law and obey the constitution. This troubles my friend Dan Gillmor, who on last count was right about everything else. And it is an action by a mayor, who on last count was wrong about a bunch of very important things. So who’s right now? I try to answer that in the extended essay that follows.
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Six Apart makes Fast Company 50
03:14 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Neoteny
Six Apart makes Fast Company 50. Yay and congrats!
My company Neoteny is an investor in Six Apart.
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February 16, 2004
Social chaff
07:12 UTC » Privacy - Social Software
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February 15, 2004
asianmediawatch.net mobilizes against "Lost In Translation"
15:16 UTC » Japanese Culture - Media and Journalism - US Policy and Politics
asianmediawatch.net has started a campaign to petition the movie industry to vote against "Lost In Translation" for the Academy Awards.
My sister blogs about the negative depictions of Japanese in "Lost in Translation". She links to a UK Guardian and New York Times article that point out similar issues with the movie.
When I first saw the movie, I thought it was funny. After reading the articles and the asianmediawatch site and thinking about how much influence Hollywood has on the way the world views cultures, I can see their point.
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Communities and echo chambers
02:40 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Emergent Democracy - Media and Journalism
Shelly asks the question "What part of you, the writer, is part of a community? Where, within yourself, does community leave off and you begin?" and says, "But I guess we're accountable to each other, and that's the most dangerous censorship of all -- it's the censorship of the commons." This is an interesting question that Shelley has pointed out to me and I have been thinking about. In the comments on Shelley's blog, Doc ties it to the notion of the "echo chamber," the effect where we're all just talking to each other oblivious to the outside world. Many people blame the failures of the Dean campaign to this "echo chamber" and point to this "echo chamber" as a problem that is prevalent on blogs. I do see the risks, but I don't think criticizing the existence of communities or friendships is the solution. I think that communities and friendship are the foundations of trust and love and I do not agree that an aggregate of facts and single voices are the solution to finding the "ultimate truth" in writing.
I believe that communities and the feeling of community are an essential part of the equation, but that the goal is to bridge many communities and try to expand one's notion of community the largest possible size.
For instance, I believe that you can feel your ultimate loyalty to your family, company, city, state, race, religion, nation, type of government or the world. I believe that by putting your loyalty at the highest level allows you to be a global citizen and helps you recognize the importance of whistle-blowers who are often betraying local loyalties for a higher good. I believe that the whole notion of civil rights is a struggle to elevate and increase the emotional size of the community we identify with.
One way to increase the size of the community one identifies with is to participate in multiple communities or to include members from others communities. This is an important part of the "caring problem" that Ethan and I often talk about. I often quote Jack Kemp who once said that, "it doesn't matter what you know if you don't care." One of the problems that mass media faces is that they can report on Iraq, Iran and Africa, but most people don't identify with the people there and they don't care. Salam Pax showed that a single blogger with a voice can increase the caring. Salam Pax is part of our community and we are proud of him and we care about him. Through his eyes, we see Iraq as part of our world and because of him, other Iraqi bloggers have joined our community.
I think the key is to understand that it's not just like a high school. In high school, there is group of friends and everyone spends all of their time concerned about being in that group or not in that group. My life is a jumble of relationships and memberships in a great variety of sometimes conflicting communities of all different sizes and doesn't feel like high school to me. As Ross has pointed out, these can be roughly grouped into three sizes. Big power-law shaped groupings, which are political, medium sized groupings which are social, and smaller groups which are strong-tie/family/close-friend groups. My sister used the word, "Full-Time Intimate Community".
The behavior at each of these levels is quite different and it is when we collapse the context that we get in trouble. Comments made between intimate friends are different from the comments that are suitable for a discussion at a cocktail party. Comments made at a cocktail party are often not suitable for a public speech. One of the problems we have on blogs is that all three of these contexts are often collapsed into one blog.
On the notion of "censorship of the commons," I guess I'd disagree with Shelley. I think censorship by a minority of people with influence over the majority is much more dangerous than "censorship of the commons." If the commons represents a general consensus of the views of the community you choose to participate in, they should have some influence over you. I think censorship is really bad when it is exercised from a position of authority, especially one that has the ability to assert such authority through force. I am personally pulled in many directions from all of the communities I participate in and these tensions are interesting and useful. I see them less as censorship and more as points of view that help me triangulate. My traditional Japanese community, my crypto/security community, my feminist friends, my liberal political community and my latte-drinking, orkut-loving, IRC-addicted community all have opinions about what I write. I think about what their opinions will be when I write and I find that this helps me look at any issue from a variety of perspectives. They are each echo chambers in their own way, but I try to escape this echo chamber not by denying their existence or their influence over me, but by recognizing them and using a combination of communities to help me and my readers triangulate.
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February 14, 2004
Photo blogging ETech
18:25 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Photo
I knew I would not be able to compete with the other bloggers in covering the content of ETech so I focused on photos. I've finally uploaded most of the decent photos here. I took the photos with my Canon 300D. I used a 55-200mm telephoto zoom lens which helped me be more invasive and catch people off-guard. It looks more like a collection of snapshots of my friends than anything resembling photojournalism. For some real photojournalism, take a look at the World Press Photo awards.
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February 13, 2004
The power to offend
04:41 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Joi's Diary
This is not interesting unless you're tuned into the blogsphere sit-com so I'm posting my thoughts on my Live Journal.
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Drudge Report on alleged Kerry infidelity
03:05 UTC » US Policy and Politics
Drudge Report: CAMPAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOCRATS: KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN
Wow.
via lovebot
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February 12, 2004
Orkut in action
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Moblogging from the Nokia 6600 with Atom API
08:03 UTC » Moblogging - Wireless and Mobile
Christian is "Mr. UI" of Nokia. He gave me this cool application yesterday.
This lets you post photos to your TypePad (or any other Atom API compliant) photo album directly from the phone without going through email.Christian LindholmPertti Korhonen, Nokia’s new CTO introduced PhotoBlog for Series 60 in his keynote at ETech in San Diego. This application proof-of-concept is supporting the Atom API enabling users to post to leading blog platforms. The application was developed by Futurice, who is developing a Photblog platform.
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Pecking at ETech?
05:21 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Joi's Diary
Russell says:That's odd. I haven't noticed pecking or being pecked. Pompous? Nothing more or less than I would expect. I wonder if I'm missing something? I'm generally fairly sensitive about this sort of stuff. Anyone here at ETech have any specific examples?Interesting conference - too bad I wasn't there to get a longer impression, but boy it seemed like there were some serious pecking orders there.And someone else I know there said this via IM last night:You are missing some good conferences this week here, although I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the bloggers are pretty pompous.I'm not sure what to make of that. Pecking orders? Pompous? It bothers me, I guess.
I DO think we're talking about blogging too much, but pecking?
Via Yusuf
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Tribe to support FOAF and RSS
05:02 UTC » Privacy - Social Software
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Emergent blogging from Iran
01:35 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Global Politics
Yesterday, Jeff Jarvis introduced us to the Iranian blogger, Pedram Moallemian. Pedram blogs at the eyeranian. He is one of the outspoken Iranians who blogs in English and help us understand what's going on on the incredible number of Persian blogs. He explain that the Persian blogs can be traced to the short explanation written by Hoder at Hoder.com explaining how to use Blogger in Persian. There are now over 100,000 Persian blogs. Most of the blogs are about politics and sex as well as other things like poetry. The suppression of free speech in Iran is one of the explanations for the number of Persian blogs, but the notion that one short page of Persian documentation for Blogger starting this incredible trend is also very important. Many countries and languages probably just need a small seed to create an emergent cascade of blogging adoption.
Jeff writes about an arrested Iranian blogger who was recently freed. Great post with links to other interesting posts about Iranian blogging.
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February 11, 2004
What is a blog?
15:06 UTC » Blogging about Blogging
Is this an interesting question? What's the difference between a jo