Okay, so it’s not just me. In case you haven’t noticed yet either, blogrolling.com changed the pinging URL. It is:
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
So change the preferences in your software of choice, and you should be all set.
I’ve got MovableType pinging blogrolling.com every time I update, and for the last several days that ping has returned an error (the activity log just says “failed”). Anyone else have this problem?
Lucky us! Recently-defended Dr. Jill Walker rewarded herself for her hard work with a trip to the States, and came to talk at Brown yesterday. She’s a brilliant scholar and a wonderfully social person, and has the rare gift of effortlessly keeping your attention when talking about scholarship. In talking with her over the last few days, I realized that the design of one’s own weblog has everything to do with updating frequency. My log had been aesthetically displeasing to me, but I hadn’t [had|taken] the time to modify it. It’s not the world’s most beautiful now, but it’s cleaner, and I can tweak it from here. Immediately, I am more inclined to update it.
The snow just hasn’t stopped. This is the day on which I regret having cancelled ‘net service from home: soon, I will walk through the windy streets for at least half an hour, to get home from the office. It’s odd to be looking forward to facing the elements so late in the evening; the wind is lashing the trees, and the cold is likely to be biting. But it seems like a good thing to do anyway. Clear my head.
I know, so much news to write up, and all I want to do is post a link?? How lame. Well, it’ll have to do for now: I’d like to come back to this when planning my syllabus for next spring. Though I’m writing, really.
Any blogging and personal e-mailing is done at the direct expense of work time, which is scarce as it is. Nevertheless, I look forward to the distractions: they give perspective to these otherwise turbulent days.
Hm, TrackBack didn’t seem to work last night. Let’s see if it does now. I was trying to reference MGK’s blog-documentary post from here: http://www.wordsend.org/log/archives/000017.html
MGK says that “blogs seem to present themselves as a documentary genre.” A documentary of what? While typing that last sentence, I first typed “codumentary” – Freudian slip? Exactly what sort of document is this? I had another weblog going elsewhere, and moved primary activity to here, thinking that it feels better on many levels – but there’ve been no personal posts. It seems frivolous and unprofessional to talk about spring and my awe at having such generous friends. Would it be better to discuss the generosity of a Perseus Project staff member, who spent two hours talking to me about semantic encoding today?
What do you know about me, from this? What do you want to know?
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