Category: Blogging
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Blog worth
Via Frank: My blog is worth $70,002.96.How much is your blog worth? Not too shabby I guess!
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Stopping blogging
I have to sympathise with the views expressed by Xanadb in his final post. To my mind the bloggersphere has reached a saturation point. I just can’t be bothered following them anymore. A case in point was the recent announcement of apple’s Video iPod, and the whole hype around web2.0. I don’t really need to…
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Job prospects
Dan Drezner, one of my favourite bloggers, has been denied tenure at the University of Chicago. He is understandably disappointed. It may have something to do with him having a blog: [Speaking of regrets, let’s go back to the blog…. er… any regrets?–ed.] The very first words I wrote on this blog were: “I shouldn’t…
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El Blogroll
I haven’t gone near my blogroll in ages, so it is badly in need of renovation. Some blogs that are no longer being updated have been deleted. And I have put in some new additions that I should have added ages ago. Here are the additions: (in no particular order I might add): Progressive Ireland…
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Carole Coleman: I wanted to slap him
Following the publication of an article by Carole Coleman in the Sunday Times, there has been a recent upsurge in searches fo the video of the interview she did with George Bush last year. She has written a book about her time as Washington correspondent ala Mark Little. It is an interesting take on the…
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Feeds
My feeds appear to be back working after an upgrade to the latest wordpress release.
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Consumer question
I bought a game in Game yesterday for my PC. On going to the counter I was asked to make sure that my computer met the minimum specifications (it did), and that if I bought the game there would be no refund, no exchange, and no comeback whatsoever. I know that by warning me in…
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AOL to buy leading blog company
Or as the BBC site said: Ok ok, we all make mistakes. Anyway this is a very interesting development. Jeff Jarvis has alot more. I think in the marketplace that we are in, these things are bound to happen. Market forces (real or imagined) will drive this kind of investment. Bloggers can make moral judgements,…
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Court Rules in Favor of Anonymous Blogger
A significant case, at least for US bloggers. “Because the trial judge applied a standard insufficiently protective of Doe’s First Amendment right to speak anonymously, we reverse that judgment,” Chief Justice Myron Steele wrote. Steele described the Internet as a “unique democratizing medium unlike anything that has come before,” and said anonymous speech in blogs…
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Uni
Way too busy today to get much blogging done, though plenty of news to catch up on. More soon.