Goodbye diglet
Mon 18 Jun 2007, 4:55 pm
This is news to me because diglet is the first blog I ever started. As I mentioned previously, diglet was a blog I started with the encouragement of my then-boss, Anna Gold, to keep tabs on the digital library happenings at UCSD (“diglet” being short for “digital letters”).
Even though the “authorship” of the entries changed with a blog move or upgrade, I wrote all the entries from April to October of 2002, after which time James R. Jacobs was the main force behind the blog.
It’s just interesting to see something that I started a while back have a life cycle beyond me. See ya, diglet.
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wait, WHAT?? I used to read diglet way back when, I had no idea you used to be part of it. You know James? *I* know James. Woah dude, small world.
Comment by jessamyn — June 18, 2007 @ 10:52 pm
Yeah, I had that small shock of recognition when I first saw your photo of James that I linked to above.
I really don’t know him that well. We worked in different parts of the UCSD library, and I didn’t get a chance to know him before I took off. We didn’t collaborate or anything; first I did diglet, then he took it over. Since he left UCSD for Stanford, I think there was no one who really felt like keeping it up.
Comment by Steve Lawson — June 18, 2007 @ 11:46 pm
Still, it’s impressive to have a blog that survived after you, even if it’s sort of sad to be putting it to sleep.
Comment by Laura — June 19, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
diglet = coolest blog name, evah! I came over from my reader thinking it was some sort of mini Digg. Which would actually be cool since it’s gotten unwieldy… Anyhow sad to see the little blog that could disappearing into the ether. And wow is that a perty template….
Comment by jennimi — June 21, 2007 @ 3:35 pm