Month February 2005

Analogue Palm Pilot

Jason Kottke’s ‘analogue palm pilot‘: It’s simple, and it works. Always the best way.

Melanie Phillips on IDS the Bloggers’ Friend

Melanie Phillips has picked up on Iain Duncan Smith’s article in The Guardian. Phillips, I shoud point out, is someone I read for the same reason people pick scabs. It irritating, slightly painful, but nevertheless weirdly addictive. Anyway, her point…

Post linked to by Scoble

Heh, well, I’m pretty chuffed. My Ten Thoughts on Successful Blogging was linked by Mr Scoble himself. Many thanks to him for that. Now, if I have more visitors here, I might need to think up something interesting to say.…

Hunter S Thompson dies at 67

It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Hunter S Thompson dies at 67

Link Blog Update

Plenty of stuff going on the link blog. I was uncertain at first whether or not to just have this stuff on this blog, and give it a new category, so if that’s what people wanted to look at they…

How Robert Scoble Reads 1000 blogs a day

Blogaholics: How Robert Scoble Reads 1000 blogs a day Using his aggregator to pull his information, he can then access it on his laptop, his cell phone, or even on his television. Yes, it seems it is with him no…

Bloggers will rescue the right

Iain Duncan Smith thinks blogging can help the Tories win the election! For decades the national conversation in most western countries has been directed by a few talking heads. Newspapers play important roles but all the evidence suggests that broadcasters…

Principles of Good Blogging

From the Common Craft blog: 1. Write what you know. Everyone is an expert in a small number of things. 2. Listen. The mythology of blogging is about putting things into the world, but the other part of that is…

Interview with Ishiguro

Continuing the coverage of his new novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro is interviewed in today’s Observer. From his semi-detached house in suburban Golders Green, in north London, Kazuo Ishiguro has made himself an architect of singular, self-enclosed worlds.…