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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 […]

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Wow, I just got a “golden ticket” to use WordPress.com. I signed up aaages ago when nobody really knew what WordPress.com was. Well, it’s a hosting site à la TypePad. Oh, and it’s free (so maybe more like a good version of Blogger, I guess). And it uses WordPress of course. So if you don’t […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]