Shock horror - webloggers taking a break
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Ati caught cheating ? (Shock, Horror!)
Ati caught cheating ? (Shock, Horror!)
05/18/2004 04:25 AMSwedish woodlands butter-footgear shock
horror
Swedish woodlands butter-footgear shock
horror
11/10/2003 11:23 PMSwedish hikers discovered 70 pairs of shoes in the woods, each pair
filled with butter. No word on whether it was the very best butter.
A provincial spokesman says the buttered footwear ranges from
sneakers to boots. There are even butter-filled high heels and tap
shoes. Each contains about a pound of butter.
The province spokesman says they'd like to catch the person who did it
and make them clean it up. He says it's going to create quite a mess
when the butter starts to spoil.
Link
(
via JWZ)
Update: Erik
sez, "It's an art
project by German/Swedish photographer Boris Duhm who put the
shoes on this mountain and filmed it and he will be showing it at an
exhibition in Sweden in January. He forgot to tell the locals.
Godzilla taking a break -- for now
Godzilla taking a break -- for now
03/06/2004 02:03 AMTaking a break, sort of
Taking a break, sort of
10/29/2003 01:16 AMBetween SARSWatch.org, which is turning into close to a full time job,
and attending the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference for the rest
of this week, I suspect that I won't write much here over the next
week. See you all at the end of the month....
CNN.com - Godzilla taking a break -- for
now - Mar. 4, 2004
CNN.com - Godzilla taking a break -- for
now - Mar. 4, 2004
03/06/2004 01:53 AMCNN.com - Godzilla taking a break -- for now .. Toho is retiring
Godzilla .. como van a matar a Gojira? .. Godzilla ..
reports
edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/04/film.goodbye.godzi
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...shock therapy on countries in various
states of shock for at least three
decades...
...shock therapy on countries in various
states of shock for at least three
decades...
04/17/2005 11:39 PM
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism --
...Although hotels and
industry have already started reconstructing on the coast, in Sri
Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia and India, governments have passed laws
preventing families from rebuilding their oceanfront homes. Hundreds
of thousands of people are being forcibly relocated inland, to
military style barracks in Aceh and prefab concrete boxes in Thailand.
The coast is not being rebuilt as it was--dotted with fishing villages
and beaches strewn with handmade nets. Instead, governments,
corporations and foreign donors are teaming up to rebuild it as they
would like it to be: the beaches as playgrounds for tourists, the
oceans as watery mines for corporate fishing fleets, both serviced by
privatized airports and highways built on borrowed money....
Naomi Klein on "reconstruction" money after natural
disasters--and who benefits.
(Makes Wolfowitz seem like a less
unlikely choice to head the World Bank after reading, too.) Webl0ggers Suck
Webl0ggers Suck
03/13/2003 10:23 AMYou're all a bunch of sad, lonely hosers and I've only been blogging
for the last 18 months to work my way into your affections in order to
get to a position of trust from which I could then undermine you all
with my real thoughts and opinions on the subject of blogging. Just to
make you feel bad about humanity. Blow me.
DevDays Webl0ggers
DevDays Webl0ggers
12/05/2003 12:36 PMSashi Corti points to webloggers covering the European
DevDays.
Top Five Tips for Webl0ggers
Top Five Tips for Webl0ggers
07/18/2004 06:56 PMG4 Tech TV Jul 18 2004 11:10PM GMT
"I Encuesta a webl0ggers"
"I Encuesta a webl0ggers"
06/02/2004 01:07 AMI Encuesta a webl0ggers
I Encuesta a webl0ggers
05/31/2004 06:52 PMI Encuesta a webloggers y lectores de
blogs
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On how journalists write about
webl0ggers...
On how journalists write about
webl0ggers...
06/05/2005 10:48 PMThere's an article in the Sunday Times today called Go
lden rules for blogging clever which features a few choice morsels
of salient quotage from some bloke not a million miles away from this
weblog. For this reason alone I recommend you buy the paper in
question. Possibly you should be so impressed that you should consider
sending me some naked pictures of yourselves?
Moving on though - the article itself is very strange. It seems to
wend its way between a number of different registers - starting off in
a 'weblogs and online communities are important' area and then wanders
directly into a 'who the hell do you think you are to think anyone
cares what you think' kind of space. I find this very odd, given that
the article is supposedly about giving people tips for writing a
weblog. It's been a while since I read a cookery book, but I'm pretty
sure they don't start by telling people that they're worthless and
they'll never amount to anything. That kind of motivational speech
seems more commonly left to parents. (Of course the article isn't
actually aimed at people starting a weblog at all, but at
people who want to observe it from the sidelines with a cup of tea and
a raised eyebrow while slowly dying inside.)
From having apparently smacked down the reader for their
nerve - their very presumption - that they might find
value in self-expression, the article moves on to slightly
self-satirise. Now the mockery is a bit ironic - it knows we don't
really want to be boring and that we're all able to see the
funny side of the whole thing. To support its case, it brings in a few
of the classier webloggers (Heather
Armstrong and myself) to comment. And what do we say? Well,
basically we say that all this stuff about being boring is rather
missing the point and it's not about getting a huge audience and that
self-expression is really important and stuff and that if people
derive value from their weblogs then that's good, right? Right?
Well, all I can say is that it's lucky that our brief comments
don't distract from the main thrust of the article! No hippies are
going to distract from the relentless pursuit of traffic, after all.
So we get a humourous take on giving your weblog a sexy name, a patch
on how to pander to other weblogs to get hits, a bref paragraph on
Googlebombing and a few words on the apparent incestuousness of the
culture. The article recommends writing about your sex life, getting
fired for writing a weblog and peddling extreme opinions. All of these
things will get you a book deal and only then will people want to get
you naked because they've heard your name on television.
I think the reason I find this whole article so amusing is because
it's the ultimate archetype of all news stories about weblogs. Its
every word exposes the assumptions and prejudices of journalists and -
I think more widely - the British. So you've got the censorious
attitude to people expressing themselves in public (self-expression
isn't really proper), then you've got the whole
amateur-versus-professional argument that neurotically restates
only proper journalists are worth reading. These journalists,
who - we are reminded by the rest of the article - really assume that
(i) the only reason to write is to get famous, (ii) there's
no value in community or discussion or debate and (iii) normal
people would sell their granny for dog meat to get famous. And to
cap it all off, the examples that they use are all the ones that
reveal the bankrupcy of the news media - that a culture of millions of
webloggers can only really be understood by the tabloidish stories
that make it across into the 'proper' media. The whole thing is
gloriously cock-eyed.
I'm being a bit unfair, of course. It's not nearly that clear-cut,
and there's some really interesting stuff here. I like that Simon
Jenkins expressed an anxiety about the role of the newspaper columnist
in the amateurised opinion space. I don't think he's got an enormous
amount to worry about - in fact he should be delighted, he could be a
giant in that space if he wanted - but that all depends on viewing
changes as opportunities rather than threats. Here are a few more of
my thoughts - good and bad - in the form of an unordered list:
- I love the fact that the word hippo-griff is used in this article.
For that alone, I will give you one billion dollars. You heard me. One
billion. Although I'm a bit surprised by the hyphen. Maybe I won't
give you a billion dollars after all. Damn sub-editors.
- "The absolute golden rule of blogging - it is literally made of
gold - is: Do not blog", says our journo. It's literally made
of gold? What, really? Dear God, man - misuse of 'literally' in this
way is pretty much the first thing that you get smacked in the mouth
for at journalism school. What are you doing!? Unless of course there
really is a golden rule cast in gold somewhere - on a mountain or
something. In which case, I want to see it. While we're at it - who
the hell made up this rule? I've never heard it before. It's not even
a parody of 'Don't talk about Fight Club'. I don't get it.
- If you read the article in print, then you get confronted with an
enormous picture of that bloody berk who got (as far as I can tell)
fired from Waterstones for being a bit of an idiot and not reading his
contract. I've never felt a lot of sympathy for him - even though
the relationship between a weblogger's site and their working life is
a complex one that I've been coming up against a bit recently -
because he just seemed to have been such a twit about the whole thing.
I'd recommend reading two things about this subject: Anil
Dash's expansion on his assertion that no one gets fired for
blogging and a Tech Station article called The Unbearable
Rightness of Nick Denton.
Ah, that'll do. I'm bored now. Fun article! Took me ages to respond
to. Probably better than I'm giving it credit for. Seeya!
A Firefox Hack for Webl0ggers
A Firefox Hack for Webl0ggers
06/27/2004 01:29 AMAll of this time at the house on my back has allowed me to do more
surfing the net then what should legally be allowed. I have been
digging around looking for ways to improve my productivity. With some
terrific extensions available to Firefox users I am going to outline a
way to save your self some time..
I user Newzcrawler when I used to use IE I would have 20 or 30
browser windows open. The desktop would come to crawls and that always
aggravated me. On top of that I would have to wait for the browser to
open and the click on the Newzcrawler tab to bring it back to the
front.
When I started using Firefox I faced that same aggravation. The Tab
browsing was great when it came to looking at referral links within
the current browser window, but I wanted a way to load all of my
articles in one browser using multiple tabs. I kicked myself in the
ass today as I took about 15 minutes looking at some of the extensions
and wanted to start beating my head against the wall for putting up
with it that long.
Install the Tabbrowser
Extension and then follow these Instructions<
/a>. Once you have completed step 4 I want you to keep the tabbrowser
extension preferences open.
Step 5. Click on Focus and then choose Links with Normal Action in
top set of selections. Second click Other applications In the "Keep
browser in the background when tabs opened by"
That's it, so now when you are in your reviewing headlines in your
aggreator and you see a article you want to review it will load in a
tab while keeping the browser in the background. So you can find the
articles you want and they will all be loaded in one browser keeping
the clutter down on your desktop. You may nor find this handy but I am
thrilled.
I would love to hear from any of you that have developed your own
time saving tricks.
How Apple is going to screw webl0ggers!
How Apple is going to screw webl0ggers!
01/06/2005 04:47 AMMost of you should already know that Apple is suing several sites that are devoted Mac
fans. They have decided that because someone either at Apple or a
contractor is spreading juicy information to these sites, that they
are going to sue them into telling who is giving them the information.
If Think Secret decides to
fight Apple I am going give them a donation to help them with their
legal cost.
Why would I do that, well how long will it be before someone passes
me a juicy tip and I write about it and piss some company off. As has
been mentioned around the blogsphere if this had been the New York
Times or PC World they would not have touched them with a 10 foot
pole.
One thing I can do immediately is this, I will no longer purchase
any iTunes music or purchase any sort of Apple product as a consumer I
can also make a statment with my pocket-book.
APPLE CEASE AND DESIST YOUR LAWSUITS AGAINST
WEBLOGS!
On the UK Webl0ggers Christmas Party...
On the UK Webl0ggers Christmas Party...
12/02/2003 01:35 AMI'm pretty much promoting this one to death at the moment, but just
in case someone using RSS feeds to read my site has missed the
enormous plug I'm giving this event on my site at the moment, there's
a UK Webloggers Christmas Party to be held in London's
fashionable Farringdon district this coming weekend. Details
follow:
→ Venue: Downstairs at
the Well
→ When: This coming Saturday 29th November from 7.00pm
→ How do you find it? There's a helpful map!
→ Organised by: That lovely chap from Funjunkie.co.uk
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I Encuesta a webl0ggers y lectores de
bl0gs
I Encuesta a webl0ggers y lectores de
bl0gs
06/01/2004 08:17 PMResultados de la I Encuesta de
Webl0ggers hispanos
Resultados de la I Encuesta de
Webl0ggers hispanos
07/20/2004 07:40 PMA rollicking poke at our convention
webl0ggers
A rollicking poke at our convention
webl0ggers
07/16/2004 06:48 AMeditorial
nytimes.com/2004/07/15/opinion/15THU3.html?ex=1247630400&e
n=84e4f8310e8eb60e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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Jorn Barger, one of the earliest
webl0ggers, is missing
Jorn Barger, one of the earliest
webl0ggers, is missing
12/03/2003 03:01 AMHave You Heard from Jorn Barger?
ericwagoner.com/whereisjorn
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"better at taking credit than taking
action."
"better at taking credit than taking
action."
01/03/2005 05:57 AMWhat webl0ggers are reading this summer
(Phil Gyford: Writing)
What webl0ggers are reading this summer
(Phil Gyford: Writing)
07/10/2004 04:58 AMSpeaking of
which
gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/07/09/what_webloggers_.php
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The Scobleizer: A challenge for
webl0ggers: handling organizational
difficulties
The Scobleizer: A challenge for
webl0ggers: handling organizational
difficulties
01/28/2004 05:10 AMScoble talks about iPods, WMA, AAC, and choice ..
Scoble
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The Consumer Electronics Show opens
Minus Webl0ggers
The Consumer Electronics Show opens
Minus Webl0ggers
01/05/2005 03:59 PMI would have went to CES instead they have banned all webloggers,
thus I am flipping them the middle finger and will be going somewhere
else besides Las Vegas for vacation. See not only will CES miss me, so
will Las Vegas miss my wallet and my wife at the Blackjack table.
Sure I could have lied on the application but who wants to go where
they are not welcome. [Yahoo]<
/p>
Yu-Gi-Oh, the Horror!
Yu-Gi-Oh, the Horror!
08/16/2004 10:47 AMThis withering review of the movie
Yu-Gi-Oh! provides me with a
great new line to try on my spouse: "Now my Obelisk of Tormentor is
the strongest monster in play!"
The Horror, the Horror
The Horror, the Horror
04/09/2004 04:00 PMThe
Exorcist in 30 seconds, "re-enacted by bunnies."
The horror
The horror
01/22/2004 04:19 AMI defy anyone to look at these pictures of a juvenile detention center
in Texas and argue that they are signs of a society on the right
track....
The horror!
The horror!
04/09/2004 04:06 PMGina's posted a photo of
the Kinja development team, minus me and Matt, as Kinja prepares
to go live. You can see the fear in their eyes, and yet everything
went smoothly. It's nice when some much planning and testing actually
pays off.
Oh, the Horror!
Oh, the Horror!
04/08/2005 05:55 PMZDNet Apr 8 2005 8:50PM GMT
"Children as young as seven in one
British school are using webl0gs as part
of their normal routine, and are doing
better than non-webl0ggers as a result,
their teacher says."
"Children as young as seven in one
British school are using webl0gs as part
of their normal routine, and are doing
better than non-webl0ggers as a result,
their teacher says."
06/14/2004 09:52 AMThe Scale of Horror
The Scale of Horror
12/28/2004 02:51 PMWe use the word "disaster" too casually, but some events warrant the
word. That's the case with the simply horrific scale of
death and destruction
in south Asia from the earthquake and tsunamis.
The tens of thousands who will have died when the counting ends are
the immediate tragedy. But their numbers are dwarfed by literally
millions of people whose lives have been turned inside out by this
disaster. They must be the world's focus now. We must all do what we
can to help.
As noted, I've sent some money to the Red Cross. I'm making another
donation today, this time to
Doctors
without Borders, an organization I've praised here before.
There are many others doing valuable work. (Here are some
helpful links.)
The people of south Asia need us, right now, and these organizations
are the best quick way for us to do something useful. Please, please
give generously.
Tables? Oh, the horror!
Tables? Oh, the horror!
05/16/2004 04:30 PMApparently there
remains some
confusion
after my
Thursday-afternoon rumination on the poten
tial use of tables, as opposed to pure CSS-based
layouts. I'm going to share some of my experience to help clear this
up.
more...
PunditGuy: HORROR
PunditGuy: HORROR
12/30/2004 06:28 AMTsunami home videos .. HORROR ..
video
punditguy.com/2004/12/horror.html
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Highways of horror
Highways of horror
04/16/2004 07:39 AMDriven by rage at the U.S. occupation, and hoping to split the shaky
allied coalition, tribesmen are taking hostages -- and now killing
them.
A Horror Story
A Horror Story
03/11/2003 02:00 PMPicture if you will, one peaceful Friday afternoon at work. A
conversation with the boss about a new client, Thomson...
The horror of XML (ZDNet)
The horror of XML (ZDNet)
10/30/2002 01:00 PMHorror Squad 1.0
Horror Squad 1.0
04/13/2005 10:46 PMPit modern and high tech weaponry against the supernatural in this
squad-based tactical game!
Horror show
Horror show
05/12/2004 08:20 AMThe government did not want us to see nightmarish images from Iraq.
But with our soldiers and our enemies armed with digital cameras, we
can't escape the gruesome realities of war.
"The Amityville Horror"
"The Amityville Horror"
04/15/2005 09:35 AMThe horror! The horror! When the dog gets hacked and the kid gets
stalked in the first five minutes, you know you're in for it.
Danger! Horror! Get Out!
Danger! Horror! Get Out!
04/07/2005 12:13 PMWhat we avoid in Hidden Gems and why we avoid it.
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