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Article — 26 July 2006 — 1,056 words

Blogging takes no time at all

A lot of bloggers have had a lot to say about Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s little tirade against blogging. (You can’t read the article now because it is behind a subscription wall. Independent please note: this is why Guardian Unlimited and BBC News are the most popular news sites on the net and yours isn’t.) It is […]

Article — 17 March 2006 — 2,570 words

Warning: This is a navel-gazing post about blogging, and they are the worst

Culture — Society — Technology

First of all, I am so sorry sorry sorry for writing this post. I thought I had grown out of writing about blogging, but it’s just a bad habit; an itch you have to scratch. Clearly I have had a lot of thoughts about blogging since whenever the last time I wrote about it was. […]

Article — 17 March 2006 — 371 words

A new zenith — of sadness

Culture — Human-centred approaches — Web

Chris Applegate has an interesting post about that Design Quest vote thingy that The Culture Show had recently. Concorde won, which, as Chris pretty convincingly points out, is crap. I was going to write a post about this when the Design Quest launched but then I realised that it was going to turn into a […]

Article — 2 January 2006 — 344 words

‘Outwith’ outwith the lexicon

Culture — Society

I find etymology quite interesting, so I’m looking forward to Balderdash & Piffle on BBC Two tonight. They have a list of words that the OED want to find more printed evidence of. Although I suppose the whole point of this list is that it is surprising, I still can’t believe how new a lot […]

Article — 7 October 2005 — 221 words

Domination plan foiled by esoteric spelling

Media — Personal — Technology

1/3 of 14–21-year-olds have a blog. Sort of. The article says it’s a third of 16–21-year-olds with an internet connection have a blog. And then there’s the age-old argument: what’s a blog, what isn’t, etc… Whatever, a third sounds fairly high, and is therefore newsworthy. Anyway, as one of these 14–21-year-olds, BBC Radio Scotland’s Newsdrive […]

Article — 9 August 2005 — 223 words

Berners-Lee on blogging

Web

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 — 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 […]