Category: Blogging
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New PC
My 4 year old Gateway is finally seeing its final days. It will shortly be broken up, and the best bits sold off. A PIII 500 with 288Mb of RAM and a quaint 6.8Gb hard drive. All praise to Gateway – not once in 4 years did it give a problem. Not once. My new…
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Microsoft plunge into blogging
The Beast of Redmond has started a blogging service similar to Blogger – it looks interesting enough – I just can’t stand the thought of not having my own domain name.
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Irish Blogs
Irish blogs in no particular order, with some new additions. Frank McGahon Three Monkeys Online Freedom Institute Holy Shmoly! Xanadb Twenty Major Broom of Anger CaoimheB In the Near Future Thinking Out Loud Sarah Carey Keith Gaughan Atlanticblog M’che’l ‘ Foghl’ Karlin Lillington Alt-Tag Defiant Irish Woman Eamonn Fitzgerald Peter Nolan Bluire Rymus Sliabh Bernie…
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Blogrolling
The always entertaining Sarah Carey has added me to her blogroll – cheers!
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The 'blog' revolution sweeps across China
New Scientist has published an article on the craze of blogging sweeping China. It is written by Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley. He also runs China Digital News blog at chinadn.org. There is definately no shortage of enthusiasm: Meanwhile blogging seems set to grow as…
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Comments again
Apologies to those who recently commented – an issue with blacklist meant I had to purge some comments.
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Comments
Comments seem to have stopped working for no apparent reason. I think it might be something to do with the overhead in SQL. I will look into it and get it sorted as soon as I can.
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Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism
Eric Engberg lambasts bloggers in this piece on the CBS news, he notes: The public is now assaulted by news and pretend-news from many directions, thanks to the now infamous “information superhighway.” But the ability to transmit words, we learned during the Citizens Band radio fad of the 70s, does not mean that any knowledge…
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WP Blacklist
After receiving some 1000 comment spam in the last 24 hours I have just installed the WP version of Blacklist – it is working wonders. Take that spammers!
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Irish bloggers
Has the number of Irish blogs stagnated? Or am I just not keeping up with the new arrivals? Any Irish bloggers out there who I have not linked to please do get in touch.