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Did Wikipedia Really Ban Quatar?

Of course they didn’t. But for a little while, it looked like they might have done: Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country. Wikipedia has blocked that IP address for…

Microformats

Stuff about microformats seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment. I first came across them in a post by Simon Dickson. The latest piece appeared on the Read/WriteWeb blog, which in turn introduced me to…

links for 2007-01-01

When is a Blog not a Blog? (tags: google blogs techcrunch zoli erdos) Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » The nightmare after Christmas (tags: naughton drm microsoft vista) (tags: vista drm windows Microsoft security copyright software) Vista and DRM…

Vista and DRM

Quentin Stafford-Fraser (British web pioneer, who helped devise the first webcam) points to a frightening article by Peter Gutman about “Microsoft’s devotion to ‘content-protection’”. From Peter’s executive summary: Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order…

When is a Blog not a Blog?

Mike Arrington has opened up a storm of a debate over at TechCrunch, criticising the official Google blog for not allowing comments. He’s picking the issue up from a post by Zoli Erdos. He asks Is a blog really a…

links for 2006-12-31

Patrick Chia » WordPress Theme – MegaPress (tags: wordpress theme) It’s the end of the line for Microsoft: sorry, Mr Gates, you’ve just been Googled | Business | The Observer (tags: naughton google microsoft) Blogsmith to launch in early 2007…

Recent Photos

Just had the chance to get some new photos up on my Flickr account. Here’s a view of the flooding we had in Llansantffraid earlier this month: This is St. Bridget’s church in the village (Llansantffraid means ‘Church of St.…

The Blog Train

Hugh McCleod: I am no longer interested in being a “professional blogger”, whatever that means. I like blogs, blogging and bloggers, but I think we’re in “post-revolution” times now. The train has already left the station. If you managed to…

PfF/ScribeFire Review

I’ve been using Peformancing for FireFox, shortly to be rebranded as ScribeFire, for my last few posts on hyprtext, and my initial impressions are pretty good. It certainly fills the gap left when my switch to Ubuntu meant I could…

Blogsmith Coming Soon?

It looks like there will soon be a new contender in the hosted blog platform sphere. Blogsmith, the engine which was designed to run Weblogs Inc, Jason Calacanis‘ early blog network which was subsequently bought up by AOL. WordPress seems…