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Re:This will be useful when there is a plane crash
The passangers actively using the internet will be able to send real time visual info right before their demise.
I can see the phenomenon now... DeathBlog.
I was going to suggest that Fucked Weblog would be overrun, but FW appears to be.. um.. fucked -
i don't think they can use the lizard logo anymore
The Mozilla lizard is widely recognized by developers and early-adopters on the web, but does not reach far beyond these groups. It is also used inconsistently across projects and products.
IIRC, the lack of a strong visual identity started about the same time Toho started suing people for using *zilla in conjunction with a lizard or dinosaur logo. There's some more about this at Davezilla's Notzilla page. -
Re:"Mozilla RDBMS"
Ignoring the ethical issues, what could be legally done to me if I went over to SourceForge and started a project called "Mozilla RDBMS"?
The Godzilla trademark holders would add you to their list. (Actually, they stopped chasing Davezilla when he stopped using a lizard logo, so you might be okay) -
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Re:I don't really get blogs...
LiveJournal blogs are the worst, IMHO. People go on and on about events and parties with people that 99.99999% of their readers have never met. Once I realize I've stumbled across something like that, I leave it as soon as I can.
I'd really love to know where people get the idea that livejournals are blogs. Being the intelligent folk that you are, I'd have thought that you'd guess from the name that livejournals are... journals.
Most of the best blogs are hosted on the owners' domain (generally using MoveableType, or b2, and focus very little on the life of the blogger. -
Online Journals vs. Weblogs
I think most of you are getting a little lost. See, you're making the mistake of labelling online journals as weblogs. While there is definitely some overlapping, journals and weblogs are not one and the same.
Like most of you have observed, online journals are mostly products of self absorbed teens whining about their lives (of course, not all of them are like that - LittleYellowDifferent is technically a blog but verges into journal territory lots, with a bunch of hilarious anecdotes from the author's life). Blogs, on the other hand, are the natural extention of links pages. They offer links to interesting or funny webpages and adding often hilarious commentary on the pages. Of course there are a ton of inane, cookie-cutter blogs, but there are a whole bunch of amazing and hilarious blogs out there too.
Examples of some awesome blogs are Davezilla, the null device, and Kottke.org.
Oh, and here's my rule of thumb for finding great blogs: If, in your quest, you find yourself at Livejournal or Blogspot, run as far as you can in the opposite direction, because you're not going to find the next Davezilla on there. -
Re:Text in case of /.ingFrom davezilla
I have, until today, never mentioned Godzilla, nor do I have any imagery of him on this site. Nor do I refer to my logo as Godzilla. It's always been, "That little dragon guy."
He has a cartoon that a reader sent in to him with "Davezilla vs. Godzilla" after he got the letter from the lawyers. Prior to that, he did not use the name "Godzilla" on his site. -
Gecko�Mozilla bug 149325 (can't link to it from slashdot) mentions possible trademark problems with the word Gecko. Add that to Toho apparently aiming for a precedent to go after Mozilla by bearing their teeth at Davezilla, and we Moz fans have some interesting times ahead.
Oh, and there's an IE skin for Mozilla, which along with custom splash screens and icon sets, allows you to ease your co-workers into Mozilla.