Principles of Good Blogging

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…

Interview with Ishiguro

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.…

Scoble’s Blogroll

One of the frustrations of not sticking with FeedDemon was that I forgot to export my blogroll so I could update Bloglines with all the cool feeds I had come across. Frustrating. So I could start pulling some together, I…

Portable PCs

I am really getting settled down now with the various systems I have put together. I really like using gmail for, duh, my email, and the Yahoo! calender is coming in very handy. I am pretty confident, having thought about…

FeedDemon decision

Well, my trial has finished on FeedDemon, and at the moment I’ve decided not to go ahead and cough up, mainly for one very good reason: BlogLines, which suits me better because it is more portable. If I had a…

Academics give lessons on blogs

From the BBC News Site – I picked this up from the MSDN Student Flash blog (unfortunatley not as exciting as it sounds…) Blogs are increasingly being used by academics and students. Until a few months ago, the attention paid…

Why Politicians Need Weblogs

Interesting page on the use of blogs by MPs: A lot of the people that you reach via a weblog will post comments on a weblog of their own and link to you in the process. Some weblogs have an…