Weblog: Dann Sheridan's Weblog
Source: To UserLand’s Execs.
Link: http://www.xlogs.net/2004/12/09.html#a1588

Dan asked: "Why don’t you blog more about what’s going on at UserLand?" [via: PubSub: userland ]

I asked the same question, and put my POV as to why it was necessary in private emails I had with Scott Schuda early in 2004, but to no avail. Instead the two Scotts blog about their hobbies mainly.

Pity. The products are very nearly excellent IMHO, the company... Well, what company? I have a feeling that they're not developing their products for general customers anymore, that they're installing and developing customised versions for higher paying customers. This would certainly explain the snail's pace of updates to their products, the lack of customer support and perhaps why they don't (can't) blog.

As I said in my emails, there is a vacuum of information, and it's getting filled with rumour, gossip and drivel.

Cool solidarity is especially important to young men who are under social pressure to be close with other young men, but not enough to be suspected as gay.

Could also be 'mate' or 'but' (shortened form of butty, used in the Valleys of South Wales when I was a kid).

Historically, dude originally meant "old rags" -- a "dudesman" was a scarecrow. In the late 1800s, a "dude" was akin to a "dandy," a meticulously dressed man, especially out West. It became "cool" in the 1930s and 1940s, according to Kiesling. Dude began its rise in the teenage lexicon with the 1981 movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."