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philgyford : Dial 01 for London - Lovely. Isn't the internet fun sometimes. (via Crackunit)
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philgyford : Hack the Planet: Are you sure? - A post-SXSW2000 discussion about weblogs and cliques and oh all those things that now seem so old.
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philgyford : The benbrown website :: daily text - Ben Brown's 6985 word account of his SXSW 2000 and *that* weblog panel. A lovely piece, still worth a read.
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philgyford : Comments on 1142 | MetaFilter - A bit more flurry about weblogs and "3000 word" Ben Brown-style essays, post SXSW 2000. Quaint.
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philgyford : Detainee 063 - Real-time account of the interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, seven years on, Pepys' Diary style. (via Kottke)
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nelson : CaringBridge - Blog + social media service for people who are in serious medical care. What a humane service.
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philgyford : Jorn Barger, the NewsPage Network, and the Emergence of the Weblog Community | Tawawa.org - Fascinating history of the early days of weblogs, with a prominent place for Dave Winer's NewsPage stuff, which I remember being important to me (the Haddock Directory started on Userland Frontier in 1997). (via Preoccupations)
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nelson : blosxom to mtimport - Considering moving my blog off of Blosxom to Typepad. Here's a python script that might help.
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philgyford : Hot gossip as Pepys and Austen go blogging - Times Online - Pepys in the Sunday Times. Reads as if it's only just started, rather than having been around for more than six years. And why do these journalists never get in touch with me?
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13 month ago
philgyford : Mapping the Brainysphere: 29 blogs switched-on gamers should read " Subject Navigator - I was looking for one or two good games blogs to follow and found too many. Choices choices.
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14 month ago
Andy Baio : Google releases open-source Blog Converters project - hold up, Google has a Data Liberation team!?
philgyford : Google Open Source Blog: Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released - Excellent - scripts to convert between Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType and WordPress. I reckon every single online service should have an "Export" button and nag you if you haven't backed-up in a while. (via Tom Taylor)
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15 month ago
philgyford : West End Whingers - I'm enjoying this blog's theatre reviews. Intelligent but down to earth and nothing too obscure.
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15 month ago
philgyford : Home is where the heart is - Another weblog by someone at LISPA, currently doing the second year. Still odd to read about people doing what I did exactly one or two years ago.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Lovely little BBC News piece on the tenth anniversary of weblogs which—probably for the first time—gets pretty much everything right! - In late 1998 they say there were only 23 blogs in the world. By the time I started plasticbag.org in late 1999 there were probably somewhere in the high hundreds. Things have changed a lot since then.
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28 month ago
nelson : Anil likes my blog! - Tooting my own horn, but a weblog endorsement from Anil Dash is pretty damn flattering
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28 month ago
philgyford : Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register - 'Power of Nightmares' etc creator on the BBC and other media being scared, the faults of blogs, user-generated content. "It's a time of great technical invention but it's a time of [artistic] stagnation."
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29 month ago
gleuschk : An Entirely Other Day. Returns. - all tumblry
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31 month ago
plasticbag : A nice supportive message from Stowe Boyd... - "Tom expresses the feeling that most well-known bloggers share: a learned avoidance -- if not physical disgust -- of PR folks who bombard us with PR."
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33 month ago
Simon Willison : How Top Bloggers Earn Money - How Top Bloggers Earn Money. Interesting numbers on BoingBoing, I can has Cheezburger, TechCrunch and more.
philgyford : How Top Bloggers Earn Money - I'm fascinated by people making decent amounts of money from this stuff, particularly when it happens almost accidentally. (via Daring Fireball)
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plasticbag : Yesterday I stumbled upon this fairly comprehensive list of decent weblogs circa March 2000. plasticbag.org was called barbelith.com back then... - I found it via a post on my site from the time that basically read, 'Wow, I never knew there were so many blogs in the world'. Funny thing, perspective. I remember with fondness most of the names on the list.
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34 month ago
plasticbag : The Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards is about celebrating the best in European weblogs... - It's a pretty good way to see what people are writing about and to discover some new sites, and if you want to vote for me in the 'Past his best' category, that would be fine too...
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34 month ago
jimray : Jezebel is the latest Gawker blog - For women too smart to put up with women's magazines
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35 month ago
jimray : Vallyewag "unmasks" fake Steve Jobs as Leander Kahney, gets it wrong - I've read both for a while now and thought that the Kahney guess was way off. Let the mystery continue!
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35 month ago
jimray : Beware the 'blogola' - Since most media organizations have rules around accepting gifts from those looking to curry favor, Hollywood has aimed its spin zone at bloggers. This should be fun to watch.
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35 month ago
jimray : Tumblr gets a redesign and some social features - Add friends, reblog, better mobile support. I just want 'em to fix the fact that the cookie never seems to remember me.
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