Duncan Stephen

Article — 1 May 2005 — 452 words

Blogs are not the future

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?

Media — Technology

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 […]

Article — 26 March 2005 — 779 words

The end of Blogger?

Technology

New Links has finally jumped ship and moved off Blogger — three months after all the cool people did it. Their new site is at http://www.new-links.info/. I personally preferred the newlinks.nu idea, but I couldn’t be arsed waiting for the comments to load! Will Howells is also thinking of shifting off Blogger. It seems as […]

Article — 21 March 2005 — 185 words

Top of the blogs

Technology

The first BritBlog Top of the British Blogs chart is out. It shows this blog in 14th position — the 14th most popular British blog! Err yeah right. As much as I like to see this blog near the top of a chart such as this, I do find it rather embarassing. It’s not modesty […]

Article — 14 March 2005 — 751 words

Tomorrow’s fish and chip paper has its say

Media — Technology

An article written in yesterday’s edition of The Sunday Times — Scotland has provoked much foot-stomping, arm-crossing and general huffing amongst Scottish bloggers. I’ve come to expect this from most articles about blogging. Almost all of them have glaring errors of some form in them — it makes you wonder how much we can rely […]

Article — 9 March 2005 — 199 words

Is blogging good for your career?

Business — Technology

Via Boing Boing comes ten reasons why blogging is good for your career. The most convincing ones are numbers 3-5… It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I’ve written about that, just google for XXX and I’m on the top page” or “Oh, just google my name.” No matter how great you are, your […]

Article — 8 December 2004 — 200 words

It’s not quite finished yet but it’ll do

Personal — Technology

Welcome to my new blog! At last! Apparently it’s the month of giving, you see, so I thought that I’d get myself a new blog. One of the most frequent comments people make about Blogger is, “you get what you pay for.” Which is why I’ve shelled out the princely sum of zero for a […]

Article — 8 November 2004 — 242 words

Uni blogs

Technology

According to Frankie Roberto, the University of Warwick is encouraging its students to blog. Nice. But why? To create communities of interest. To encourage creativity and development of writing skills. To support ‘personal development planning’, something that all universities are apparently supposed to do. To help with job-hunting (employers like blogs). To provide a record […]