I’m wondering whether it’s time to change the tool I use for drafting my blog posts offline. I’ve been using Microsoft Live Writer beta since it was released in mid-2006, which when it was released, generated a lot of surprisingly positive buzz in the usually anti-Microsoft blogosphere.
Being a beta version, it’s not without its quirks - it […]

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There’s been a lot of buzz about Twitter in recent weeks - fueled by A-listers like Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte (although Leo has recently jumped ship to Jaiku - and I’m still not sure I really understand why), and although it’s been fun watching mainstream media try and get their heads around “the point of Twitter”, the best […]

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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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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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