Everyone has heard of NaNoWriMo, the web-organised novel writing sprint, which involves writing 50,000 words to get a novel finished during the month of November. It sounds like madness, and it is. What’s the point of it? Well, part of…

I love these posters. The sheer awfulness of the puns they employ never fail to make me smile. This was taken on my cameraphone (hence (lack of) quality) in Warwick.

Reporters Without Borders have a handbook downloadable or viewable on their website on blogging aimed at political dissidents and the like, offering advice on staying anonymous along with the usual stuff: Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and…

The Register: Cockney suits abuse f**king email Guardian Online: Utter Rubbish Joho the Blog: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Infocom Game Business2Blog: Outsourcing Blogs (and Splogs) to China Guardian Football: Scholes makes it easier for Eriksson

The Blogger Buzz blog announces a new tool for Blogger – an extension for MS Word that allows you to write and post entries direct from the word processor. Cool. It’s been imaginatively called Blogger for Word.

Interesting post over on the TwoWayWeb News: I got a response from Jimmy Wales to a note about Wikipedia on Scripting News on a private mail list. He may if he wants, make his response public. Imho, it was unnecessarily personal.…

Not a lot going on here I am afraid. This is entirely due to the fact that I don’t have internet access at home, and now I do much of my web browsing through FeedDemon it’s a bit tricky doing…

Yesterday was the Big Day Out for members of Palimpsest, the arts discussion site I help maintain. It was also my birthday, and what a great way to spend it. Whilst in the pub I discussed blogging for a short…

As a sweetener for members of Palimpsest who made a donation towards the hosting this year, I offered them an @palimpsest email address. This got me thinking about what other services could be offered to those who might be interested.…

US based celebrity blog thing is now up and running, as reported by Dan Gillmor: The Huffington Post has launched, and it’s part-Drudge (though from a different perspective), part blog of blogs. It’s obviously version 1.0, which means you should…