Comments on: Blogospat II: When Geeks Attack

By: Dan Ciruli

Dan Ciruli — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:13:00 +0000

Sorry, I wrote that wrong. Robert defined "HyperText Snarkup Language." It's much funnier that way.

By: Dan Ciruli

Dan Ciruli — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:57:00 +0000

As someone outside of the whole fray, I've found the whole thing pretty hilarious to watch. My coworker Robert defined HSML--HyperSnark Markup Language--in order to give people the ability to more clearly indicate their level of snarkiness.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:56:00 +0000

“Fish don’t care about water either, at least until it dries up.” I love this To the Megite comment above: TailRank is also worth looking at.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:53:00 +0000

Dave used vacuous. I just used the working man’s synonym.Granted, I don’t understand them.

By: What's Happening Right Now

What's Happening Right Now — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:03:00 +0000

In that sense, Megite does better:1) Megite auto discovers new blogs, not just A-list2) Megite doesn’t require the link analysis, it ranks the story based on text analysis too.3) Megite can be customized with your OPML file (or personal feeds).

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:54:00 +0000

In fairness, there are couple of sociological issues under the surface. Not relevant unless you’re living the lifestyles of the geek and flamacious. But it’s a bit provincial to derogate tribal rites just on the basis that you don’t understand them so they must be stupid.