| Tinker to Evers to Chance... |
| June 05, 2003 | Blogging |
| My friend Chuck just popped me to ask how Andy Ihnatko (the self-described "42nd most-beloved industry personality" (which industry, Andy, which industry?)) and blog-star-with-a-shady-past Wil Wheaton found his entry about the two of them blogging from the same cruise ship. I guessed, but it was an informed guess. While Andy is a blogrodyte and writes his entries by hand on a first-generation Macintosh Luggable in SimpleText, Wil, like Chuck, uses MovableType. Movabletype's Trackback Autodiscovery feature found Wil's Cruise Entry and sent it a Trackback Ping. Wil saw it, mentioned it to Andy, and they both commented on Chuck's blog. I'm jealous. The closest I've come to a celebrity commenter is Andy's Old Pal, technology curmudgeon John C. Dvorak. Andy, like Dvorak before him, has stopped writing the back page column of MacWorld. | |
| .:Posted by Michael on June 5, 2003 11:11 PM:. | |
The saga continues... Now Andy's writing about YOU...
| .:Posted by ChuckEye ( total) on June 13, 2003 3:10 AM:. |
Yep. I am that darned punker-outer. He also wrote me a note with a subject line that included 6 punctuation marks, one neologism (mine), and a foreign word.
I am torn between responses. I could write a cogent reply that compares CWOBber (or what I know about it from reading Andy's blog) to MT and deciding that I was wrong and that it is much more comparable to a Neanderthal (in the good way, of course) than a troglodyte. On the other hand, I could write up the lyrics to The Clash's "Overpowered by Punk." The latter is a strong temptation, since being in Tulsa for the weekend inclines me towards the lazy, (self-)amusing thing.
And it would have been a better punk-out if
A: I had been right about trackback
B: my own blog was up to modern standards and didn't use tables for layout
C: I had said "TeachText" instead of Simple Text. SimpleText doesn't run on the old mac portable
| .:Posted by Michael ( total) on June 13, 2003 7:39 AM:. |
Hi, Chuck. Hi, Michael, who I don't know, but that is not important right now. What IS important is that: A) Chuck got feedster'd by Wil and Andy and had a little comment-fest a while back. B) Chuck commented to me re: this (in relation to my trackback......
| .:Posted to TankGrrl - Annotations On Life on Jun 13, 2003 12:02 PM:. |
And I was also in that same room, pointing out that blog to both Andy and Wil.
| .:Posted by Randal Schwartz ( total) on July 18, 2003 9:44 PM:. |
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