Over the last few months, I’ve found it increasingly difficult to summon up the motivation to write any blog posts.  It wasn’t as though there was nothing to write about; I just felt that I had nothing of value to add to the conversation that wasn’t being said elsewhere. I think it comes down to […]

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The other day on Twitter, Chris Pirillo posted a link to a video blog called “Hometown Baghdad”.
I’ve got to honest here; if the link had been “in the full”, I probably wouldn’t have clicked through - I would have reckoned on it being more mainstream-media-sanitised, “See it’s not all that bad, is it?” reporting but a) […]

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Thanks to Paul O’Flaherty for taking the time to point out that my RSS feed was broken.
I didn’t spot this myself because I don’t subscribe to my main feed in Google Reader, just the comments feed. Attensa was picking up my main feed posts just fine, and although I don’t use it much these days, the […]

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I followed a link from here to this article, about how the frequency of posting to your blog doesn’t matter anymore. From Eric’s post:
“Thou shall post every day” is the most fundamental and most well known principle of blogging….

It’s something that every beginning-blogger reads about, and something that I wrestled with when I started this […]

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According The Register, a meeting is being held in London at 14:00 (BST) to discuss the future of the internet, and solutions to problems such as spam, child pornography and government censorship. The meeting will be broadcast live on the web from here.
We’ve seen bloggers making posts about presentations and keynotes as they happen before, but […]

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This is priceless. Author-cum-journo, Keith Waterhouse,  uses his own blog to post an article decrying bloggers…! According to him, they “do not have original thought between them”,  and they “never acknowledge original authorship”.
Really? Perhaps Mr Waterhouse has never come across a Trackback before; perhaps he is unfamiliar with the kind of link-love that feeds sites like […]

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