An online notebook
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 could do easily. But I know now that it would have ended up looking bitty, … Keep reading
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 matter where he is (except perhaps when he is sleeping. We hope). Part of his … Keep reading
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 have possessed the greatest potential to frame public debate. British politicians have known that communicating … Keep reading
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 hearing the world- listening. Listen, then write. If you run out to the world with … Keep reading
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. His writing traps us inside strange skulls. He spends, he says, around five years on … Keep reading