May 2004

New cure for persistent email

May 5, 2004

Too many emails in your inbox? Feeling overwhelmed by unanswered correspondence? Guilt finally getting to you? Can't face sorting them all out? My answer: ctrl A, ctrl D. Works every time. If I owe you an email and you haven't had it yet, well, chances ain't looking good. (Er, actually… I just made a new […]

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ClearlyCalm

May 5, 2004

Every now and again I get an email from someone asking me to link to their site. Usually I will check it out, discover that it's porn or a link farm or, worse, poorly written, and thusly ignore it. Like everyone, I have my own criteria for what I will and won't link to, but […]

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Finding time for blogging

May 5, 2004

Just talking to Kevin Marks in IRC about finding the time to blog. Kevin works for blog cosmos engine Technorati, so blogging feels like work to him and, when prioritising what he needs to get done most, he opts for coding over blogging. I can understand why – you have to prioritise and when you […]

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If a writer isn't writing, it's because he isn't reading

May 4, 2004

I have no idea who first said that if a writer isn't writing it's because he isn't reading, but I realised today that if a writer isn't writing because they aren't reading and then they start reading in order to start writing they'll very rapidly find that they still won't be writing because they're reading […]

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More little stars

May 3, 2004

Got back from London today after a fantastic night out on Saturday with a covey of fellow bloggers: Doc Searls, Euan Semple, Matt Mower, Gary Turner, Tom Coates, Cory Doctorow, Danah Boyd, Julian Elve, Tom Dolan, James Cox (who also has photos here), plus a few other people who turned up later that I didn't […]

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