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Monday, June 23, 2003
Caught between a ®ock and a hardon 
| | (Earlier on the phone, Dean Landsman was talking casually about "powercrats." Another fine word. Possibly related.) |
Better to blog the light than curse the darkness
| | Here's my point. When we talk about this Internet and this blogging software, this techno-magic that encourages each of us to be expressive voices in an open, universal network of across-the-board conversation, we are speaking of an essentially Emersonian device for an essentially Emersonian exercise.Starting with the electronics. "Invent a better mousetrap," as Emerson wrote, "and the world will beat a path to your door." Well, here we are. |
| | Was The Dial the first group blog? Chris thinks so: |
| | Emerson was himself a sort of group blogger in The Dial, a magazine he founded with Margaret Fuller in 1840. He designed it as a compendium of the "good fanatics," like Thoreau, Alcott and Channing in his Concord circle. ³I would not have it too purely literary," he wrote to Fuller, venting a blogger's ambition. "I wish we might make a Journal so broad and great in its survey that it should lead the opinion of this generation on every interest and read the law on property, government, education, as well as on art, letters, and religion." |
| | Makes sense. I also think the first blogger was Benjamin Franklin, and the first blog was Poor Richard's Almanac. (A sample.) |
They have ways of making us not talk
| | Seems my ISP (Cox High Speed Internet) is blocking outbound SMTP traffic to mail servers other than its own, which I don't use. New thing. I'm checking on it. |
| | Meanwhile I can receive email, but not send it. Been this way since Thursday, my wife tells me. |
| | Anyway, if you've been expecting to hear from me but haven't, meet my excuse. |
| | [Later...] It turns out that Cox did indeed start blocking Port 25 last Thursday. The workaround is to use their mail server. PITA, but I understand the issues. |
| | Trouble-shooting it cost half a day of time. |
| | Now I'm finally around to catching up on stuff. |
There are responses to this message:Re: Monday, June 23, 2003, lou josephs, 6/23/03; 8:09:46 PM Re: SMTP Port Blocking, Hamish MacEwan, 6/23/03; 5:09:38 PM Re: Monday, June 23, 2003, Ross, 6/23/03; 6:07:20 AM Re: Monday, June 23, 2003, Dave Winer, 6/23/03; 1:54:06 AM
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