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Written on April 9th, 2006 at 10:04 am by
Mark Pilgrim Gets Back in the Game
Mark Pilgrim is back. Mark Pilgrim was actually one of the early shapers of my philosophy on blogging and left me somewhat disappointed when he left the game a few years ago. It looks like he’s back though, based on his entertaining (as a parent) entry on bath time with his child, one [...]
Written on March 31st, 2006 at 03:03 pm by Darren Rowse
Web 2.0 Spam
It seems spammers are getting a little web 2.0 in their design.
The last few days I’ve had the one below quite a few times. Large fonts, rounded corners, shiny icons…. Almost (not quite) looks like something from a collection of Web 2.0 logos.
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Written on March 18th, 2006 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
A Negative Blogosphere?
Fascinating post over at Scobleizer on The new A list – some reflections by Robert on how he sees the the new breed of bloggers coming through treating his mate Dave Winer who recently announced he’s looking at stepping away from blogging. He describes this new ‘A-list’ of bloggers as a lynch mob.
“No one kept [...]
Written on March 14th, 2006 at 11:03 pm by Darren Rowse
WeSmirch launched by Memeorandum
The team behind the popular memeorandum and tech.memeorandum have announced a new site ‘WeSmirch‘ which takes the format of their other popular sites and applies it to tracking gossip and celebrity blogs. I know lots of bloggers who will be doing their best to to get picked up by this one.
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Written on December 5th, 2005 at 03:12 pm by Darren Rowse
The 2005 Weblog Awards Finalists Announced
The Weblog Awards for 2005 have posted nominations and voting will start sometime in the next 24 hours. Congrats to all the nominations (there’s a lot to wade through).
There’s a lot of quality blogs in the list as usual, I always enjoy these awards for finding new blogs that I’d not stumbled upon before.
Diverting to [...]
Written on September 22nd, 2005 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse
The Million Dollar Homepage
Want to see an enterprising online idea? The Million dollar Home Page is an attempt by one young business student to pay his university fees by selling advertising on a site – one pixel at a time. A pixel costs $1 and there are 1,000,000 of them up for grabs.
You have to buy them in [...]
Written on September 20th, 2005 at 09:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Food Blogs
I was chatting to a couple of people today about blogging (surprise surprise) and explaining to them that it’s getting to be that there is a blog now on almost every topic you can think of. One of the people I chatted with is a big foodie and asked about whether there are many food [...]
Written on September 8th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Travelator Blogging
Warning – Tangent Ahead
The Travelator is a wonderful invention. There is nothing better than rushing for a flight at an airport and seeing that the long walk to the departure gate is going to be cut down by jumping upon one of these moving sidewalks.
On a recent trip overseas we were lucky enough to find [...]
Written on August 11th, 2005 at 09:08 am by Darren Rowse
Blogging that Gives Hope
I just stumbled (via Linkfilter) upon a blog over at MSN Spaces called typical guy, atypical situation – a blog written by a guy named Kenny who is a quadriplegic that is getting massive attention at the moment through his blog. He was featured on MSN Space’s main page and had 80,000 visitors in a [...]
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