Category: Blogs & Blogging

Today is the 100th day of the year and the 99th consecutive day of posts to NewMexiKen.

The blog Just One Bite comes up with reasons why bloggers blog.

A friend who is an analyst in the Internet industry discussed bloggers with me recently over wine. What motivates them? Why do they start? Why do they keep blogging? He didn’t know I was one, at first, but then I showed him J1B. Then there was more wine, some browsing, some drunken typing, and we made a list. So, what the hell… I give you:

35 Imagined Answers to “Why Do You Blog?”

1. I can’t fit any more bumper stickers on my car.
2. I care deeply about a cause and want to inform others.
3. I have a really cute pet/kid that should be shown to the world.
4. My President sucks and something must be done.
5. My President is under fire and something must be done.
6. My life seems more interesting if I describe the minutia.
7. I survived something terrible and want to support others going through the same experience.
8. It’s more fun than writing in my Hello Kitty diary, and my parents think I’m doing my homework.
9. It lets me keep in touch with distant relatives and friends without actually having to interact with them.
10. My friends and I do this together and it cracks us up.
11. For the cash. Click my ads!
12. I can explore my own opinions and thoughts better if I write them out, examine them, and get feedback.
13. I enjoy being an entertainer, but have no outlet for that offline.
14. Marketing told me I had to have a blog on our commercial site to appeal to the younger demographic, so I force out an entry once a week.
15. Much of my life is online and this is just another expression of that.
16. I want to sell my book/product/service.
17. I like a good fight, so I encourage them in my comments by calling anyone who disagrees with me a chickenshit bastard motherfucking dickface.
18. I saw another blog like this and thought I could do it better.
19. It’s cheaper than therapy.
20. The Internet is about sharing ideas and creating links, and I thrive on being part of that.
21. I’m a frustrated writer who can’t put out more than a couple paragraphs a day.
22. I started blogging and found a community, so now this is an important part of my life.
23. My friends have already heard all my stories, but I’m not tired of telling them yet.
24. I’m deeply involved in a hobby and use blogging to interact with others who share the same passion.
25. People always tell me I should write a book, but to be honest, I’m too lazy.
26. By sharing thoughts here, it makes it easier to bite my tongue in the real world.
27. I need someone to tell my secrets to.
28. I want to be famous, and if I’m a great blogger, I will be discovered.
29. My viewpoints on race, religion, or politics are considered offensive by many, but my followers adore my every post, so I keep writing.
30. I take really great photos and people will enjoy them.
31. The bias of commercial media ensures that the only way to publish real news is to share it through the digital underground (no, not the music group… but hey, do the humpty hump).
32. I’m going through a transition in my life and writing about it helps me stay on track.
33. This is my travel journal.
34. I want to connect with others who have similar interests, beliefs, or lifestyles.
35. Damned if I know.

TBogg had this great headline Wednesday:

You’ve got to fight…for your right…to ex parte

Three Bed Two Bath has some nice words —

NewMexiKen has officially moved over to Movable Type. Go to his site and congratulate him, and feast at a site that is like the ultimate page-a-day calendar.

Three Bed Two Bath was the first blog to link to NewMexiKen!

NewMexiKen has migrated from Blogger to Movable Type, a more comprehensive blogging software. You can see in the left column that there is a listing of the most Recent Entries and a listing of Categories. There is also an effective search tool for all of NewMexiKen.

Comments are now integrated into the Entries. When you click on a single entry — in the Archives or the Recent Entries or on the Posted line — the comments will appear with the orginal posting.

Comments made before now, however, have not been migrated.

There are problems with a few of the entries going back to August; some 1,626 postings. I will repair them as I can and identify Categories.

Please let me know if you come across any bugs or issues with the new software. Thanks.

Update: A section listing Recent Comments has been added and comments made during the past week have been posted to the new database.

Doonesbury daughter Alex blogs.

The Truth Laid Bear provides daily weblog rankings, by daily visits, and by the number of sites that link to the weblog.

1. Instapundit 88815 visits/day
2. Daily Kos / Political State Report 81636 visits/day
3. Eschaton (Atrios) 69577 visits/day
4. Gizmodo : The Gadgets Weblog 45908 visits/day
5. Smirking Chimp 37232 visit

1. Instapundit (2626)
2. Talking Points Memo (1653)
3. Eschaton (Atrios) (1514)
4. Daily Kos / Political State Report (1495)
5. Andrew Sullivan (1354)

There are 5 blogs that link to NewMexiKen and about 50 visits/day.

Don’t forget to read dooce.

Thanks to Jill for reminding me. (It was at dooce that Jill learned Orbach was leaving Law & Order.)

Noam Chomsky has a blog.

This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time.

NewMexiKen appreciates the comment from Quirky Burque last week, referring to yours truly as “Burque’s original Grandpa Blogger.” Couldn’t get much better than that!

The Panda’s Thumb: “The Panda’s Thumb is dedicated to defending the integrity of science against all attempts to weaken it, distort it, or destroy it.”

Link via Political Animal (Kevin Drum).

The Road to Surfdom:

an intermittent weblog by Tim Dunlop
walking the thin line between idiot and savant

NewMexiKen is taking a little vacation this weekend, a combination of family and Cactus League spring training. Blogging will be sparse until mid-week.

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks (NBA) has a blog. Between the Mavs and his new TV show, The Benefactor, it looks promising.

The New York Times has acknowledged that The National Debate’s “faux Columnist Corrections Page…is now a parody which is protected under the First Amendment.”

See the corrections parody.

NewMexiKen is now at https://newmexiken.com/.

Please update your Bookmarks/Favorites, though your browser will bring you here automatically.

Jack Shafer takes a look at two of the most popular blogs: The Heaving Pukes Who Write Gawker and Wonkette – Nothing like an abusive headline to grab your interest, eh?.

a bunch of stuff happened and a bunch of people were born but, frankly, none of it or them interest NewMexiKen much.

According to researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs, as reported by Wired News, “authors of popular blog sites regularly borrow topics from lesser-known bloggers — and they often do so without attribution.”

Bastards!

According to some, there are two types of bloggers — linkers and thinkers.

NewMexiKen is primarily a linker’s blog. I find it. I think about whether you might find it interesting. I post it.

Hey, it worked for Reader’s Digest.

In his weekly email newsletter David Pogue defines trolling:

Trolling, as Internet veterans can tell you, is when somebody deliberately makes an inflammatory remark, just to get a rise out of you. If you join a gun-control mailing list, for example, and you “innocently” post a message that says, “Why are you guys against guns? Guns don’t kill people, people kill people!” — then you’re trolling. Your knowing aim is to get the other members all heated up.

The comments area of NewMexiKen is so under attended that I may have to troll.

Colorado Luis knows where to go in Fort Collins.

Wonkette says, “We’re not going to post her name until she has a chance to launch her own handbag line just like any other scandal-plagued intern.”