Kits and Mortar Tumblr Strange Attractor Del.icio.us links TwitterEvery now and again I come across a piece of marketing which is just so clueless as to be astonishing. Usually it involves blogs and some idiot at an agency somewhere thinking that they can 'leverage' the 'power' of blogs to 'virally market' their wares and 'increase brand awareness'.
Usually, I just take the piss.
This time […]
Tired.
Swamped.
Still at the office.
But generally, on balance, things are good.
Gah. I didn't know that I had so much stuff.
I'd been working under the misapprehension that I would pop back to Dorset, pick up some clothes and a couple of books and that I'd be moving to London with just the bare minimum. Except I sat down yesterday and started going through my book shelves […]
The BlogOn guys and iUpload are doing a survey of business bloggers. Go, now, fill it out, cos I get to play with the raw data when it's done and I want lots of data to play with!
Woke up to over 1550 comment spam on my blog this morning. I can't sit and delete them all by hand, so am hereby begging the people at Blogware to do it for me with a database query. In the meantime, anon comments is turned off, HTML in comments is turned off, and I'm sorry […]
Ok, so I've had my arm twisted and I'm going to be at the drinks in Fulham tomorrow night. Come. Join me. (And buy me vodka.)
Just posted an update on where we're at with ORG over on the temporary ORG blog, along with some information on Free Culture UK and Open Geodata. The most important thing, though, is that we really need to whip up some fuss about data retention:
Urgent Data Retention ACTION NEEDED BY THURSDAY 2005-09-22
You don't need us […]
It's been ages since I've blogged a dream, primarily because they've actually all been rather dull lately, but this morning I had one of those surround-sound ultravivid IMAX-type dreams, which I can only summarise poorly in writing.
I'm outside some gates - multiple gates, set into a bay in a limestone wall far too high […]
So, the chapter I'm writing for the Uses of Blogs book is at the red pen stage. First draft finished this evening, and I've started scrawling all over it in, crossing bits, out, adding bits in, wondering what meds I must have been taking when I wrote that particular sentence. It needs a major rewrite […]
Saira's asking why people blog, as she tries to wrap her head round what blogging is, what it means to us bloggers, and how it affects people. Why not pop over and give her your answer?
She's also having a blogger meet-up:
Thursday 22nd Sept at 7pm
The Sofa So Bar, 515 Fulham Road, London,SW6 1HD
Telephone 020 […]
And before the deadline too. Yay!
Also, publisher now preparing contract. Yay! Yay again! (Note: Not out of the woods yet, mind you. It ain't over til the fat lady bogsnorkels.)
I wrote a really long post in my head on the way back tonight. A very long post in which I felt very sorry for myself because, for reasons I won't go into, I had become acutely aware of my own loneliness. I listened to a lot of Turin Brakes on the journey, particularly Underdog […]
Wonderful article by Ben Goldacre on how writing his equally wonderful Bad Science column has “increased his suspicion of the media by, ooh, a lot of per cents”. I'll resist the urge to quote the entire thing, although its general brilliance makes it hard to pick out a single quote.
Once journalists get their teeth into […]
I just opened up my email this morning, after someone rang my mobile long enough to wake me (after a *really* bad night's sleep) but not long enough for me to get downstairs and answer (bastards) and was assaulted by two simultaneously playing 'news' reports.
Searched through my open apps - nothing should be making a […]
Got half my chapter written today. 1800 words. Could have been more - I'd been hoping to finish the first draft in one fell swoop - but I was feeling rather ropey this afternoon and found it hard to focus. With any luck, I'll polish off this draft tomorrow and then can let it sit […]