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Friday, December 4, 2009

Old School Blinq

I’m off for a week, so there will be nothing new here, but there will be something old:

Blinq’s archives from back in the day.

The systems genie was kind enough to save Blinq’s archives before we said goodbye to the Typepad blogging platform, and if you look to the right and down a bit, you’ll see you can relive the blog’s salad days, May 2005 - Jan 2007, when I was writing all day, every day, shoes off, dog at my feet.

It was nothing revolutionary, but it was fairly intense. This was my fulltime job and I followed the news of the moment, caring deeply about Terrell Owens and Tucker Max, Scooter Libby and the London bombing, and that web site that consists solely of photos of people giving the finger to Hummers.

Looking back, a couple reflections: Too many notes – I had not yet figured out the economics of scarcity.

And boy, I miss the conversation.

Quirks in the way the blog migrated to our current publishing system means that everyone’s comments are as visible as the blog posts, which seems appropriate. What was new about Blinq for us was that the audience was able to pull up a seat on stage. For instance.

So the whole interaction, as a blog found its voice and an audience, is preserved for anyone to see.

If you look, you’ll notice it was a really clever audience. Not racist, not dumb. Members signed their names or pseudonyms, and left addresses where everyone could dig deeper into their views. They were also quite disagreeable on occasion. Good. So, wherever you are Citizen Mom, Daily Sally, Above Average Jane, Susie from Philly, Karl Martino, Will, and even William Young and DB Cooper, and on, and on, ... stop Tweeting and posting and poking for a moment and take a bow.

Posted by Daniel Rubin @ 7:51 AM Permalink | 4 comments

Comments

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:01 PM, 12/05/2009

Hi Dan, long time man. Still around, still blogging even, but not as much as I used to between work and home. That is quite a crew huh? You helped attract that here.

— kmartino

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:48 AM, 12/06/2009

I miss Philly Future - It was such a great one-stop to see what people were riled over. I'm trying to compile a list of places that capture what people around Philadelphia are talking about. Philly Future has changed, Phillyblogs is gone, Philadelphia Speaks seems to be promisng. Is there a Twitter version of Philly Future? By 140 characters, I've just started clearing my throat.

— Blinq

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:43 PM, 12/06/2009

Hi Dan, thanks man! I've been far too busy with home and work to pursue what I used to at Philly Future - but ya know - these days - the mission it had - surfacing online personalities and conversations taking place around the city - no longer seems as useful. The online scene here is just fantastic and doesn't require that kind of thing now. I'm scaling Philly Future down to something simplier, back to being something more from my heart. There are many avenues to dip into to figure out what people are discussing locally online. Here's a few: Mashable has a Twitter-centric list of tools: http://mashable.com/2009/06/08/twitter-local-2/ Outside.in provides a useful neighborhood level blog aggregator: http://outside.in/ Placeblogger has a good index of local blogs as well: http://www.placeblogger.com/ And I've been waiting for people at Philly.com or CityPaper or Philadelphia Weekly to turn into local conversation aggregators any day. I've been waiting a while for sure. But it *will* happen. Meanwhile, I'm still blogging personal stuff at my personal blog paradox1x.org. Would you believe Philly Future is ten years old this month?

— kmartino

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:55 PM, 12/06/2009

Arg! Paragraph breaks lost in post! Beyond hitting those external aggregators - there's still: Young Philly Politics (http://youngphillypolitics.com/), Media Mobilizing (http://mediamobilizing.org/), Technically Philly (http://technicallyphilly.com/), PhillyNewMediaHub (http://phillynewmediahub.com/) and so man of those on your blogroll that are still there. BTW - you can use something like Google Reader, subscribe to their RSS feeds (or import Philly Future's blogroll into it http://www.phillyfuture.org/phillyfuture_api/gen_opml/2/xml for an instant heads start) to build your own personal Philly Future. If you use Google Reader's bundling capability, you can even publish your aggregator to the world.

— kmartino

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Metro columnist Karen Heller has been an Inquirer staff writer since 1986. She has won national, state and local awards for feature writing, investigative reporting and criticism, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. E-mail Karen here; read her columns here.

An award-winning columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Annette John-Hall’s twice weekly metro columns always illuminate. Her topics and storytelling challenge readers to reflect on their own perceptions, to turn off the auto response and forge a different kind of conversation. She has been nominated twice by the Inquirer for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. E-mail Annette here; read her columns here.

Kevin Riordan’s daily newspaper byline debuted in 1972, when he was a child prodigy. He got his first real newspaper job four years later, and joined the Inquirer in 2010. A native of western Massachusetts, he lives in Haddon Heights, NJ. E-mail Kevin here; read his columns here.

Since joining The Inquirer as a staff writer in 1988, Daniel Rubin has reported from 27 countries, but most of them were small. He's a metro columnist and has been the European Correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers. For two years he sat at home and wrote Blinq, the paper's first daily blog. Dan began newspaper work in Norfolk and Louisville, Ky., after getting his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University. He has lived in all four commonwealths, most recently in Pennsylvania. He teaches urban journalism at the University of Pennsylvania. E-mail Daniel here; read his columns here.

Monica Yant Kinney joined the Inquirer as a suburban reporter in 1996, moved to the City Hall Bureau two years later and was named a metro columnist in 2001 at the age of 30. As a columnist, Kinney speaks to, and for, the curious and infuriated masses, writing often about gun violence, casinos, politics, pop culture and parenting. She logs so many miles reporting in the city, suburbs and South Jersey, she finally bought a Prius. E-mail Monica here; read her columns here.

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