Dave

Dave

What’s in a Name?

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…

Don’t Blog!

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…

Richard Grimes on .NET

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…

Blogging as a Career?

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 Google Toolbar Excitement

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…

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.…