Blogger Manuel "Manu" Moreale, based in Italy, reflects on interviewing people weekly about their blogs for a few years now.
The thing I wanted to spend some time reflecting on though, is not the significance of having done something every day for 100 weeks (something I honestly dont care too much about) but why all this matters. Not the series nor the interviews. Why blogs matter and why the people behind them matter.
He has published his 100th such interview this week. Like all upstanding bloggers he even has an RSS feed.
Previously:
(2015) Blogging in Bangladesh - Hazardous Duty Pay Needed
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A gang armed with machetes has hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka in the fourth such murder in Bangladesh since the start of the year, an activist group and police have said.
Niloy Chatterjee, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, was murdered on Friday after the men broke into his flat in the capital's Goran neighbourhood, according to the Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network, which was alerted to the attack by a witness.
"They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the Islamist militants," the network's head Imran H Sarker, told the AFP news agency.
Chatterjee, 40, was a critic of religious extremism that led to bombings in mosques and the killing of numerous civilians, Sarker said.
First found here: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/fourth-secular-bangladesh-blogger-hacked-death-150807102408712.html
Search led to these sites: http://www.itv.com/news/2015-08-07/machete-wielding-gang-kill-blogger-in-his-home/
http://www.firstpost.com/world/dhakas-secular-claims-get-increasingly-blood-soaked-as-another-bangladeshi-blogger-is-killed-2383420.html
http://www.nirapadnews.com/english/2015/08/07/news-id:29841/
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 31 2025, @11:25AM
So now we have a manual on why blogs matter. Shouldn't we have the following manuals first?
- Manual: What is a blog anyway?
- Manual: What can you do with a blog anyway?
And finally, if that blog is about the Morale of "blogs", call me non-indoctrinatable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 31 2025, @01:19PM
It's all about making money.
Ewe Toob makes (or at least used to) make that easy.
The "printed page" in all its forms is a dying medium
and stochastic parrots will only deepen the on line
written cesspool.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 31 2025, @01:28PM
For a period of 5+ years, I kept a call log at work. Starting in the mid-1990s, every time I'd pick up the phone at my desk, I'd scribble in this book while I spoke with whoever it was (if it was any kind of outside call). Date and time of call, identity of caller, reason for call, and any notes which would vary from none to over a page on rare occasions. After 5 years, it became quite an artifact, a window into evolving trends...
Tangential turn into the philosophy of Karma, a perennial caller was a PhD candidate speech therapist using our technology seeking technical support. She didn't even have a device from our company, hers was sold by our competitor but they wouldn't talk to her and the issues were identical between our devices and my management made the call "just be nice to her and try to help" with the thinking that she has to defend her thesis some day... The logs showed her calling back asking the same questions almost a dozen times over a period of 5 years, others had been fielding her calls before me too... Finally, she successfully defended and published her thesis. While we are almost entirely certain that virtually nobody in the field read or was even aware of her thesis, an interesting Karma thing happened: our sales were basically flat through the period, +/- 10% year after year after year, but... through the period, speech therapy clinics ramped up from accounting for less than 5% of our annual sales to more than 40%. Maybe she talked us up at conferences?
If there's a point to the tangent, it's that the call log was able to concretely show: yes, indeed, she was asking the exact same questions over and over, for years. It's not just an illusion of memory exaggerating the scope and depth of her repetitive questioning, it's all there in my bad handwriting.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by progo on Thursday July 31 2025, @06:35PM
I might not read Soylent if the blog didn't have an RSS feed.
RSS is critical for podcasts and blogs. Don't call me; I'll (automatically) call you asking for new posts.
I use TinyTinyRSS running on my home server, as my RSS aggregator.