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A round of applause, please, for the BBC's newest punditette

April 22, 2004

One of my reasons for going up to London last week was to do an interview with the BBC World Service. They have a programme called The Big Question which goes out for half an hour every Saturday at 10.30am and they are putting together a piece on blogging. A fortnight ago I spent some […]

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Neil Gaiman's favourite word is…

April 21, 2004

…Oh, but that would be telling, wouldn't it? How about you find out for yourself? Via the horse's mouth.

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That'll be a million pounds, please

April 21, 2004

Gapingvoid says: I've told this story before: My father went to Harvard Business School in the 70s. One of his professors, an eminent scholar, had studied the question of what was harder in business: to get one person to give you a million dollars, or to get a million people to give you one dollar. […]

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The unblogged blog is a blog not worth blogging

April 20, 2004

You know one of the worst things about going away for a few days? You get back to a whole backlog of blog posts that you want to write but which feel like they'll take forever so you put off starting them because you have work and emails and stuff to do first. Then you […]

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A year ago today…

April 15, 2004

I had a business. I rented a two bed maisonette on the banks of the Kennet. I had strawberries and cream, a glass of Pimms and a new copy of the Pleasantville DVD. I also had a premonition: this coming year will be one of huge opportunities, including the chance to tip my life upside […]

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Galavantationing

April 12, 2004

Off to London tomorrow for the best part of a week. Highlights will involve seeing Duran Duran at Wembley on Tuesday night (yes, they are still going and yes, this is the original line up and yes, I will be drooling uncontrollably over John Taylor); being interviewed by the BBC World Service programme, The Big […]

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iCan… oh can you?

April 12, 2004

gapingvoid is pissed off with the BBC's iCan site. And y'know? I can't say I blame him. I'll elaborate when I've had time to cogitate.

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Kinja tell what it is yet?

April 12, 2004

When I wrote my Kinja post last week, I was starting off from a bias-free point of view. I?d really heard nothing about Kinja prior seeing it being mentioned in #joiito, and I had no expectations of what it would be or should be. The thing that really foxed me, having spent some time playing […]

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Finished culture

April 12, 2004

AKMA?s project to have all of Lawrence Lessig?s new book, Free Culture, read by bloggers and made available for free download is now complete. You can find AKMA?s posts about this project, in reverse chron order here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. My past posts about it are here and here. The […]

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Gmail gets a savaging

April 12, 2004

If you really want to see someone take a new service apart, try Mark?s deconstruction of Google?s latest offering, Gmail. And he only looks at it in terms of accessibility, without ever going into the privacy implications of having your email searched and catalogued by your email provider (particularly a provider that may already have […]

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Just what I?ve been looking for!

April 9, 2004

A while ago I was thinking ?Oh, wouldn?t it be cool if I could display a feed of the #joiito bot blog on my own blog??, but I had no idea how to do it. Today, I discovered Feedroll, a website that allows you to take any RSS-type feed and display it on your blog. […]

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Forgotten gems

April 7, 2004

Sometimes, you come across a blog that makes you stop and think for a while. A blog that takes your breath away. A blog written in such a way that you sit, dumbstruck, whilst you read. Quite a long while ago I came across Strip Mining for Whimsy. I don?t know why I stopped reading […]

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Blogroll meltdown

April 7, 2004

I?ve been trying to combine my various and assorted lists of blogs into one proper Blogrolling blogroll. I have an html bookmarks doc on my c: which is a huge page of useful links, including blogs. I have the blogs that are on my Blog-City bookmark list. And I have my list of Bloglines rss/xml […]

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David Weinberger finally gets a grip on BLX

April 6, 2004

In BLX news today, David Weinberger has finally got up to speed with BLX, but also outlines an alarming development: Microsoft has announced that it?s embedding BLX in its Office suite. First SCO, then Microsoft. Big business is taking over BLX, and that can?t be good for anyone. Gary has once again taken the initiative […]

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Is a group blog a blorgy?

April 5, 2004

I?m really pleased to say that so far the reaction to Four Corners, which launched yesterday, has been very positive. I?ve had lovely comments from Betsy Devine and Halley Suitt and am now officially chuffed as a small horse. I love the concept of a group blog – the way that disparate people who have […]

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