Dave

Stephen Pollard, a UK based political journalist and quite regular blogger, has sadly been forced to remove the comments facility on his blog: I’m afraid I have had to disable all comments from now on. I do not have the…

IT Safe is a new site created by the UK government to keep the populace updated with IT security news. The BBC report is pretty thorough: A rapid alerting service that tells home computer users about serious internet security problems…

Robert Scoble posts over on The Red Couch blog about the name of the blog just started by the publisher of his and Shel Israel’s book. …our publisher, Joe Wikert has started a blog. Shel linked to it the other…

Great link from Ken Leebow’s Blogging About Incredible Blogs, er, blog. It’s called Don’t Blog, and is very amusing. Like this: Bloggers abandon their families as they compulsively blog. One result: “blog widows.” Common activities: Apologizing to friends for all…

I have just posted to the Link Blog about the results of a poll run by Phil Bradley, which contained some quite revealing, and surprising, results. Well worth checking out.

Phil Bradley points out a useful link on the topic at The Two Way Web. edit: Google Watch discusses the issue.

Good in depth article here. Link from OS News. I started using .NET when it was in technical preview at the beginning of 2000; at that time it was called COM+2 and the main language was something called Cool. The…

Jason Kottke has given up his job and is going to live off the proceeds of his blog. I’ve been self-publishing on the web for almost 10 years now, first with a little site on my school’s web server, then…

The BBC just got round to commenting on the Google Toolbar 3 upset, so maybe I ought to quickly post a summation of what’s happening. Search engine firm Google has released a trial tool which is concerning some net users…

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

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…

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.…

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

1. Read more blogs What you get out of your blog depends entirely on what you put in. Good, interesting blogs do not evolve in a vacuum. Read as many blogs as you can. Not only will you pick up…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

BBC has an article along similar lines to those I mentioned here. “If a friend is excited about a concert and that gives me an idea for a birthday gift, I will store the info on e-mail,” says Georges Harik,…