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Article — 30 August 2005 — 635 words

Flickr is still pretty much okay

Yesterday (via Plasticbag) I read about the group of people who had set up Flick Off in protest against Flickr selling out to Yahoo. Today I was invited into it. I knew that people must have been angry, because the FlickrBlog has recently been filled less with lovely pictures and more with explanations about how […]

Article — 9 August 2005 — 223 words

Berners-Lee on blogging

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Mark Lawson — a few months ago he read about three blogs and said that blogging is “leftwing” — has interviewed Tim Berners-Lee. He’s only the inventor of the WWW you know. Mark Lawson: …I’m interested that at what sense you began to sense the possibilities [of the WWW]… you weren’t thinking blogging, I assume. […]

Article — 2 August 2005 — 120 words

Clusters improve tagging

Information architecture — Technology

Tagging is great, but it has its problems for sure. One is the old plural versus singular dillema. I don’t have any set rules for which I use, which is a problem. The second is double meaning. ‘Jaguar‘ and ‘Bush‘ are two that I’ve read about today. Flickr — oh, they are so great — […]

Article — 2 August 2005 — 427 words

The growth of blogging

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I saw this headline on BBC News: “One blog created ‘every second’.” “Crikey,” was my first thought, followed by, “well, of course, most of them are probably forgotten about after a few days.” But then I read David Sifry’s report. It reveals that the majority of blogs are actually considered ‘active’. 55% of blogs have […]

Article — 14 July 2005 — 325 words

Free, legal music? Can’t be having that

Media — Music — Technology

The greed of some record companies never ceases to amaze. Surely the BBC offering — for a short period of time — free downloads of Beethoven’s symphonies must be a good thing? Oh no. According to the record companies, “it is devaluing the perceived value of music.” Actually, offering recordings of Beethoven’s symphonies is perfectly […]

Linknote — 25 June 2005 — 8 words

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Microsoft makes web feeds easier — Jo Twist — BBC News

Internet Explorer 7 will be better with RSS feeds.

Linknote — 23 June 2005 — 56 words

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Websites alienate Firefox users — BBC News

After all this time, one in ten websites are still not supporting Firefox. Luckily, I don’t use any of them.

“Surprisingly, after all these years, users of standard-compliant browsers are still faced with sites that do not support their browser or with a link suggesting they download Internet Explorer,” said Deri Jones, chief executive of SciVisum.

Article — 9 June 2005 — 223 words

Why I use full feeds

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Neil McIntosh ponders the trouble with RSS. Or rather, the trouble with full text RSS feeds. I think all of this blog’s feeds are full feeds. I did switch to partial feeds once, but I got complaints! So I’ve kept the full feeds ever since then. And that’s not a problem. I kind of feel […]

Linknote — 29 May 2005 — 6 words

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On how journalists write about webloggers… — Tom Coates — plasticbag.org

On how journalists write about webloggers…

Linknote — 25 May 2005 — 7 words

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Abusing Amazon images — Nat Gertler — Aaugh.com

Amazon’s images explained — very interesting! (Via.)

Article — 1 May 2005 — 452 words

Blogs are not the future

Media — Technology

I really am fed up with people expecting something to happen on British blogs. It isn’t, and I don’t care. I’m fed up with people waiting for somebody to get sacked due to a blog here. It’s not going to happen, cos the tabloids get everybody sacked for no good reason anyway. I am sick […]

Article — 31 March 2005 — 616 words

Blogging in the Sunday Herald?

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A wee heads-up here for those of you interested in newspapers’ coverage of blogging, following on from this month’s article in The Sunday Times — Scotland. There might be an article about blogging in the Sunday Herald. I was asked to write a wee piece about the motivation behind blogging but they’ve decided against using […]