Oh, there’s been lots of chatter on the Internet this week! Where all did our conversations show up? Well, I’ll tell you. Pegged to the release of Jessica...

Ten years ago, my friend Andre had been experimenting with an instant messenger bot that sent out news headlines; Up late on a Saturday night I got a message...

At Ask MetaFilter, a question I’ve been pondering for some time: Where is Water War I going to happen ? The answers thus far are uncharacteristically lame for...

John Dvorak examines incidental online communities , as opposed to explicit social communities like Friendster. There’s some nice praise for MetaFilter in t...

Okay, not President, but Editor in Chief. Wired News (the online arm, not the print magazine) is looking to hire a new EiC . I think they should hire Andy Ba...

Today is World AIDS Day . It seems that Link and Think isn’t active this year, but the blog community has a long history of observing the day. Do take...

In keeping with the community nature of the observance, the best links about today’s Link and Think event in honor of World AIDS Day are at MetaFilter , the...

So, uh, yeah. Metafilter ‘s gonna be down for a little while. Like until Sunday, or when Jason gets back. Whichever comes first....

So you remember when I was griping about the Wall Street Journal ‘s $28 million redesign ? Well, I understand that it’s essentially justifiable since they’...

Chris has the best MetaFilter user name (and Hotmail address) ever....

After tons of speculation , the device known as “WHAT” (or “Danza”) is at last revealed to be the Megway HT . This thing is gonna be bigger than the Beatle...

Link and Think: Last year, the most useful, most poignant, and most resonant links on World AIDS Day were on MetaFilter’s Day Without Weblogs page ....

It’s the return of BrandoFilter ! I don’t mean to belittle people’s convictions, but railing against the consumption of fruit juice just seems like a stra...

I told you there’d be more bots . Meet MemePusher . He only works with MetaFilter right now, but there’s more to come. All of this courtesy of Andre , b...

Of course, my true love, as always, are AIM bots, so I was pleased to find out that there is an AIM Googlebot . His name is Googlematic, and he was made by...

So, yeah, Jason is the proud host of MetaFilter now, and, through the magic of QuesoVision , you can watch him set up the MeFi box here in New York...

A while back on MetaFilter, I posted " Hello, Peril. " The resulting discussion was enlightening, frightening, and engaging. I still don’t know what...

Matt’s head is so full of good ideas they’re just pouring out his ears. Witness the Metafilter Scholarship . Cool!...

I read Jason ‘s site every day. But today, he just blew me away with his recounting of his Incredible Day . It’s moving, and true, and amazing, and… well,...

I know I said I hate blogs that write about other blogs, and generally I do, even though I do it myself. But I was looking at the MetaFilter thread that spru...

I got quoted over at Slate in an article about MetaFilter. My quote’s in the first paragraph… uncredited, but still pretty cool....

In this MetaFilter thread , Maura said: it’s so easy to get a platform if you’re a ‘revolutionary’ who’s parroting the status quo but snarling while you...

Steven Den Beste has posted 258 links to MetaFilter in the less than one year he’s been on the site. I’ve been a member 3 days longer, though I had read th...

A few well-timed emails from people in response to my whining below made me realize the true source of all my synchronized miseries: I neglected to forward al...