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1. noun. A system by which a ping (qv) is sent to another trackback-aware website (usually another blog) to notify that site that a link to them has been made (usually within an article being posted). The objective is to notify the subject of an article that they have been mentioned in another article elsewhere. 2. verb. To follow a trackback ping from the target weblog to the source weblog. June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
 noun. XML is a web language used for (amongst other things) syndication formats used on blogs. Acronym for eXtensible Markup Language June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
noun. A ‘Progressive Weblog’. A blog expressing various left wing political views. (coined by Madeleine Begun) June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
noun. A series of remarks posted by people in a public comment section of a blog that follow a conversational and topic related sequence. Whilst used on blogs to describe related comments under a single blog article, this term is more specifically and accurately associated with on-line forums, many of which use a ‘threaded’ format that indents related digressions from the main ‘conversation’ in a branching manner, making it more clear to which previous comment a person it replying. Although some blog-forum hybrids also use this ‘threaded’ format within their public comments section, the term is more commonly associated with forums rather than blogs. usage: “A blog article by Mike over on Cold Fury has sparked off an interesting thread with people arguing about the merits of private firearms ownership” June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
verb. To ‘flame’ someone is to make a hostile intemperate remark, usually of a personal nature. Also see: Flame War Usage: “Andrew has seriously flamed Brian over his views on abortion again” June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
noun. A hostile exchange of views via the Internet characterised by highly intemperate language. (This term is by no means exclusive to blogs and is found in wide use throughout the Internet) June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
6 June 1944… the start of the Anglosphere’s armed liberation of western Europe from National Socialism.   It never hurts to keep reminding some people of that. June 6th, 2003 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)
A quick suggestion – given the differences within the libertarian section of the political jungle about the case for or against armed intervention in other states, what do fellow contributors and commenters think about us setting up a one-day conference or suchlike on this topic? I’m really interested to set something up, probably here in London. (But of course I would hope some non-Brit folk could be persuaded into coming). Blogging is fantastic but sometimes there is still a place for face-to-face debate. And you get to hold the event right next to a pub! June 6th, 2003 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
Sabine Herold is a courageous young woman who has put herself at the head of a popular uprising against the tyranny of union militancy to which President Chirac constantly kowtows, as reported by the Telegraph. She has been compared to Joan of Arc, and her impatience with her Gaullist government is certainly reminiscent of the saint’s frustration with the French monarchy. She is another example that despite the Left’s intellectual hegemony established since the 1960s that turned France into a second-rate country with delusions of grandeur, some French individuals can transcend that context. The kind of liberal, cosmopolitan conservatism Mlle Herold embraced is almost extinct in France.
The good news is that she is by no means the first and only one. One only needs to visit Dissident Frogman’s dacha or Merde in France to see how the blogosphere helped to flush out the illuminated few. The bad news is that if their numbers start growing, that popular Anglo-Saxon past time, ‘frog bashing’, may no longer be completely justified. Vive les Français liberes! June 6th, 2003 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
Just a titbit. I’m listening to the England/Zimbabwe cricket commentary on BBC radio 4, and for some reason one of them, Jonathan Agnew, who used to bowl quick for some county or other (and for England occasionally if I remember it right), referred in passing to the fact that his newspaper reading this morning had included the New York Times. There’d been some reference to Agnew in the newspapers, it seems, but in the papers he’d been reading he hadn’t come across it – something like that. They were just making conversation between overs. Anyway, Agnew’s fellow commentator Mike Selvey, who used to bowl quick for Middlesex (and England occasionally if I remember right), then said:
I have been listening to cricket commentaries on the radio for the last half century. Never, never have I ever heard the New York Times get any mention on these commentaries before. That brand is definitely suffering. June 6th, 2003 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Sir, If Tony Blair is seeking a weapon of mass destruction he has only to read the proposed European constitution. (From today’s UK Times letters page) June 6th, 2003 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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