Category: blogging

Nice to see that Bloglines is finally back. It was out of action all day, first of all with no feeds present at all and then feeds with no upaftes. It;s slowly coming back to normal but not all there yet. According to their news page, a cache server went down.

The Independent had an article about blogging in China today. I read it and found it quite intersting; later, via Global Voices, I found this commentary and challenge on China Herald. Even taking certain articles with a pinch of salt, i would have generally regarded The Independent as a fairly reliable paper. Obviously, in this […]

Spam trackbacks are annoying; the Blacklist plugin keeps most of them at bay but the odd one creeps through. They’re usually for gambling or mortgage companies. Today I got one about the History of the Ford Bronco (assume a truck or something, not a UK version anyway). Very weird – there’s probably something else in […]

Sarah asked whether we should have a women’s only geek dinner. My immediate reaction to these suggestions is usually no, I tend to react against anything that restricts its audience in any way. For me, I’d ask the question differently – should there be a dinner to encourage a Women in Technology network (and there […]

If you took part inthe MIT Blogging survey, then you can access the results here. One of the extremely interesting stats is that 62% of the surveyees to date are female. Given recent debate in the blogosphere about gender, I find this slightly surprising. I’d love to know how the meme spread and the main […]

Some preliminary results for the MIT survey have been posted here – or they wil be once the demand issue is sorted out. See what happens when things let loose…

MIT are runnning a survey of bloggers and blogging and are looking for a large sample. If you have a spare 15 mins, here’s the link:

Bloglines has added an Ask Jeeves logo in the top right corner. Unfortunately, everytime I glimpse it out of the corner of my eye, it looks like a snail

On the way in to work this morning, I was considering my first-read feeds, those blogs for which i scan my feed list and read first if I am short of time, like this morning. And then, by co-incidence I find a sort of similar posting here, from Evan Erwin. (via Doc Searls) In no […]

I found out today that Jamie Oliver has a blog as part of his brand website (the brand being Jamie). I see some the potential for some great synergy by getting him together with the Chef Neal over at Podchef Show, who puts up Flickr images of the different stages of making his recipes (like […]

I got a comment from one of the entries to the Contagious Media Showdown.. I haven’t posted it as does very little but link to the site entry. For me this is spam. A more open approach would have bene to get me to go see the site and get me to write about it..(a […]

As I, as well as many others, tend to search on peoples names to see what I can find out about them, I thought I’d see where I was last week, based on my full name. On Google, I’m listed at 16, surprisingly I’m number 1 on MSN (but only .com, can’t find me on […]

I see that Google have now released an Adsense for Feeds. That raises an interesting question for me, after saying that I would rather pay the licence fee for the BBC prgramming than see ads inthe programmes/radio/website. So would I have the same positionwit ads in RSS feeds? I’m not sure. It’s certainly easier to […]

You know it’s a meme when you see it in 2 unrelated blogs in a row (pixeldiva and Sorority Geek). The musical baton meme is asking about music – the volume of music on computer, last CD bought, song playig right now, sngs you listen to a lot and people to whom you wish to […]

I signed up to go this Geek Dinner taking place in London in June, as organised by Scoble, Hugh and Lloyd. I’ve watched the numbers grow and the limits increase 3 times, with the total committed now approaching 100 people. That’s a lot of people for a dinner where one of the drivers for people […]

Stephen, I don’t mind been sucked up to, even if it is to get a bottle of Scotch 😉

Great to see that IBM have formalised what I see as a very sensible Code of Conduct for all its employee bloggers. Now to start the discussions internally to see if we can move beyond the current ‘do not mention the company at all’ policy we have here.

I received a comment today regarding an older post I made about www.podshows.com. Now, this isn’t Adam Curry’s podshow.com, but a UK based site providing shows by well-known DJs for payment and for free. Phyllis commented about the commercialisation of ‘casting, whatever the flavour, especially when combined with the government’s agreement that the licence fee […]

Last night I went to a Bloggers Bash run by Adriana and Perry, some of the people behind The Big Blog Company and Samizdata. A great night that went on well into the morning. There were lots of new people to meet for me, unfortunately many of whom I only got their first names and […]

It’s taken me a week to finally get through all the blog feeds that had built up from my holiday…but finally done. Hooray. All I have to do now is wait another 5 minutes and there’ll be more there.