4/9/2003

Weblog webrings

Filed under: Blogging Links — Tim @ 11:04 am

I went through the DMOZ Weblog Webring directory.

AmeriBlogs - A ring for weblogers from the United States.

Aussie Weblog Banner Exchange - Want to get your weblog or personal site viewed for free? Want to see more sites of a similar nature to yours? Sick of banner exchanges that won’t accept personal site? Don’t want to fill your page with ads about casinos and other junk? Join our banner exchange and share banners with other webloggers and ordinary people with personal sites. Get recognised.

BigBlogs - This webring for the blogs of BBW and BHMS. Your blog doesn’t have to have a lot of fat content, but you should be size accepting. I hear their nemesis are the peeps at WeighBetter.

Black Blogz - For black bloggers. The intent is not to necessarily exclude non-black bloggers, it is meant to showcase journals written from a black perspective. He�s no longer accepting members but might sometime in the near future.

Blawg Ring - A blawg (pronounced as you think it should be) is a frequently-updated website dealing with legal issues, or the issues of people in the legal profession, or both.

Blog Domains - This ring was created with the intent to bring together the domains that are only or mainly blogs.

Bloggirls - A webring for girls addicted to BLOGGERS!

Blog Gerl Ring - They didn’t mention specifics, but it�s probably for gerls, gals and girls.

Blog-A-Rama - This is a ring for group weblogs. If you are in a group weblog, please sign up below to place your blog in the queue. A group blog is a blog that has more than 1 person posting to it.

Bloggers of Ontario Ring - A blog ring for those in Ontario.

Bloggers over 40 - The webring is for all bloggers who have made it into at least their fourth decade of life, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. A bunch of agists I tell you!

Blogging Bitches - Check out the requirements page to see if you can join. (Hint: you have to be a little bitchy).

Christine Blog Ring - Your name must be Christine (or any variation thereof, see below) This is like the Jen/Jenn Blog Ring.

Blogmania - This is a webring for blogs only. Are you addicted to blogging? Love your blog? Or just crazy about blogs? This is the webring for you.

The Blogrolling Webring - You must be using Blogrolling as your links management system.

Blogs by Pagans Ring - So if you’re a pagan, there you are. There is also Blogs for God, just to show that I’m balanced in linking.

Blogs that Cook. Love to cook? Love to blog? Well, this is the webring for you! Don’t forget to check out The Red Kitchen.

Blogster Webring - A ring for the blogging community. If you have a blog (short for weblog), join us! Blogger, Greymatter, Movable Type, PHPNuke, it doesn’t matter how you update. The Webloggers Paradise = Blogster Webring.

Bostonites - Do you live in or around boston? Do you blog? Then join.

Boylogs - If you’re a boy and own a weblog, then this is the ring for you.

FiberBloggers - A webring for craftsfolk in textiles and the fiber arts with blogs.

Fiction Bloggers - Websites containing blogs, live journals or online diaries operated by people who write fiction. It doesn’t matter the kind of fiction you write (fan fiction or original fiction).

Gamerlogs - is a ring which brings together gamers with blogs, journals or logs. so if you play console and pc games and love blogging about anything under the sun, then this ring is for you.

Otaku Blog Ring - the purpose of this site is to unite all the people out there who share two common interests: love for all kinds of anime/manga, and the habit of writing in Online Journals. Note, I am helping to start up OtakuBlog.com which is hoping to bring the Anime, Manga and Otaku communities together.

Log Revolution - Are you an anime fan? Do you blog with a passion? Then join the ring.

Geek Goddess Ring - Here is a list of requirements, paging Gnome-Girl.

greyLOGS - This is a ring for people who use Greymatter to power their blog.

Glasses Wearing Blog Ring - For bloggers that wear glasses. Note, it’s the same guys that run the Military Blog Ring.

Pro-Choice Blog Ring - For all the bloggers that are Pro-choice (in the abortion sense).

Cliquetastic Ring - This clique are for people who own a clique blog ring.

Diamond Rings - Must be the owner of a blog ring, like Cliquestastic.

Static Cling - A ring for blog webrings owners.

Net Sisters Blog Ring - You must belong to the Net Sisters Organization before you can join. Damn.

Leftie Blogger - for bloggers who are left handed.

Ooooner - Ooooners are unique, interesting, inspiring, thought-provoking, witty individuals who STAND OUT from the general Internet community.

Verbosity - Just read their requirements. Basically, for general bloggers, though you need to update on a regular basis.

Liberal Blogs - Nope, they don’t give out stuff, it’s for liberals in the American political sense.

Redhead Blog Ring - Hey, this is no ordinary webring. It’s special.. we’re special.. we’re redheads! Are you a redhead? Finally a ring I can join.

Self-Improvement Blog Ring - You need to have a blog that deals with your own personal self improvement. Be it weight loss, or excercise, or whatever. Relatively frequent updates would be a good thing as well.

Southern Blog Ring - This is strictly a southern blog webring. The definition of southern in Websters Dictionary is: In or toward the south. So with that definition, you can be in the southern hemisphere, have a blog and be in this webring. It’s not just for people in the southern USA. If you are in the southern USA, Africa, Australia, South America, or anywhere South of the equator, you can be in this webring.

Waterblogged Ring - The Waterblogged netring seeks to connect online journals and weblogs maintained by those born under the water signs Pisces, Scorpio and Cancer, as well as all other diarists who feel an affinity with water.

Button Exchange - Got a weblog or other personal site? Want to be linked on other similar sites? Don’t want stupid flashy commercial ads on your site? Join our button exchange and share buttons with other webloggers and ordinary people with personal sites. I should submit one of mine I made for Blogstickers.

Weblog webring - anyone who has a weblog or web journal can join this ring.

Wedblog Ring - A ring especially for engaged and newlyweds who talk frequently about these things in the weblog. I had no idea how many projects these gals sponsor, check them. They host blogplates and bloginality.

Weekly Memes - This is an elite webring, meaning that only those who run one of these memes are eligible to join. This is NOT for those who are just participating in them.

More webrings can be found here: DMOZ Journal Webrings. I’ll look through those to find out which ones you can submit blogs too.

Bourque Blog Log - Got a Blog? Want a link? Not a ring but a normal listing of blogs in cyberspace.

Scottish Bloggers - if you are Scottish born or currently reside in Scotland and are sensible then you can apply.

Dead - Blog Log, Webloggers, Domain Lovers, Love to Blog, Indie Blogs & Note Pad Blogs.

That’s one down, oh so many more to go.

Link-o-Rama IV - When East Meets… Blogs

Filed under: Blogging Links — Tim @ 7:43 am

You can’t keep a good man down. Well after 36 hours of no sleep, I’m back and have some more syndication sites for your blog. I found a large treasure trove at GeekPhilosopher.com which itself updates daily with news from pertaining to the blog world.

Austin Index - is for Austin Texas webloggers, writers, photographers, artists, web designers, and others who share a common passion for publishing on the web.

Xenoblogs - for weblogs outside of America (that’s an unsubstantiated rumor, sorta like a spherical earth).

Indian Bloggers List - This is another list of blogs for those of Indian origin, residing in any part of the world. I found Blogs of India earlier.

Phoenix Bloggers Ring - If you have a blog or journal and live in the Phoenix area, sign-up.

Canada Blog Ring - If you’re from that other part of America, then join up. (Yes, I have lots of relatives up there, aboot 15).

Atalanta Blog Ring - This ring is all about Atlanta, Georgia. We aspire to link together all the fabulous journals & photologs on the web that are kept current and maintained by someone who lives in the Atlanta area. The only thing they should change on that site is the color for the scroller, it blends in with the background.

Brazillian Blogs - I don’t speak any Portuegese so it’s up to you to prove me wrong.

Xanga Blog Rings - Join an Existing Ring! Join a circle of Webloggers who write about the same things you do! Create Your Own Ring! Start your own circle of Weblogs focused on a shared topic of interest! It’s Xanga, it’ll at least bring in that highly sought-after (for disposable income reasons) 14-18 year old audience [wink].

Weigh Better Blog Ring - This webring is for people on the journey to health and fitness through diet and exercise. Any and all sites related will be considered. Weightloss/fitness journals being the prime focus of this ring. Paging Jason DeFillippo (please don’t hurt me).

Weblogging Women Ring - This ring is for women with weblogs, blogs, online journals or diaries.

Military Bloggers Ring - This is a site dedicated to those of us who are related to the military, either by active duty, reserve duty, retired duty, or family and friends.

E-Male Bloggers Ring - For guys, check out the requirements page to see if you can make the cut (nothing really strict).

Blogging Mommies Ring - Do you have a weblog, journal or diary that you update at least a couple times a week? Do you write about parenthood, children, pregnancy and/or family life? Dads can also join (I’ll start the official Blogging Daddies Ring once the results come back).

Blogplates Ring - This is a webring of weblog/journal designs plus some information on how to implement them for your own personal journal. I completely forgot about these guys back when I started this endeavour into blogdom. Great resources for those looking to spruce up your site (so is OSWD and Blogskins).

Blogomania Ring - This webring was created for all weblogs hosted by Blogomania — including your personal online journals, photologs, group blogs, news blogs and more! Despite the fact that I work for a competitor I’ll still mention them.

Fractured Atlas Blog Ring - I’ll go through these and let you know which ones work and which ones I haven’t listed.

Fractured Atlas Blog Index - I’ll go through these and let you know which ones work and which ones I haven’t listed, there are a ton.

Fractured Atlas Collaborations -
Some of these sites allow you to join up and submit your own. I’ll have to go through them one by one for more information.

Fractured Atlas Collections - Again, some of these will let you join and list your blog. I’ll go through them to find out more.

California Blog Ring - You must have a blog/journal and reside in the sunny state of California. I need to find the Texas one.

DMOZ Weblog Webrings - I’ll go through these in the next day to see which ones are active and give you the 411.

Google Weblog Webrings - Same deal, I’ll look through these to find any/all that are active and let you know.

Google Webring Directory - This is way down my priority list, but I’ll look through them too (sometime).

Dead links (to cover my back in case they come back): BlogginNoggin - Is no longer active. It housed the Windy City Blog Ring apparently, so you’ll have to use this one until further notice. And, Blogs of Color is down for the count, but the message on their site hints at a comeback.

All of these have been added to the proper Syndication lists. Expect that list to grow immensely (especially since I found more directories). Feel free to send me a link of sites that syndicate your blog (English-speaking and blog-centric primarily, but it’s all good)

Odds and Ends III

Filed under: Open Source — Tim @ 4:12 am

I mentioned in the wee hours yesterday that I was planning on moving to Linux. Still haven’t yet, but here is what one of my uber geek friends outlined regarding the various distributions:

Mandrake is fast, but its a little flaky if you’ve got obscure hardware. They’re also going through a bankruptcy, so support and updates might be infrequent.

SuSE is a bit of a RAM hog in the default install. Supports the most hardware, ex: If you’ve got an obscure chipset in your sound card you might want to use SuSE. In addition, SuSE writes their own drivers if there isn’t one available.

RedHat is the most standard, but its got a terrible GUI (they basically chopped up KDE and Gnome and slapped them together). It works well, just download the iso’s from their ftp and install - it’s a bit bulky.

Debian is the least friendly for a casual user, but offers a lot more ease of advanced configuration.

Caldera OpenLinux is pretty, and somewhat powerful, but they’re evil because of the whole SCO IBM thing (SCO is suing IBM).

Slackware is worth considering too, but it’s also probably not the easiest to use.

Gentoo uses a BSD-style ports system, which is one of the nicest things about FreeBSD - its the compile-from source Linux, so the software is automatically attuned to your computer hardware (customized).

So where does this leave me? Maybe I’ll just try Knoppix, all it does is use swap files. Oh, and I still haven’t though much as to what application software I’ll use. Though, Mozilla and GAIM are a shoe-in, it’s pretty much just a fight between WordPerfect and OpenOffice. Also, I’m using an Asus A7N266 nForce-based motherboard - nVidia has a pretty solid reputation for supporting Linux-based drivers for that product.