Blogging & Blog Culture
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Why blogging is good
The blogs I read are written by a reasonably diverse group of people. Naturally I steer clear of people who have hateful views, or from which I’m not going to learn anything except that they like the sound of their own voice, but on the whole I read interesting posts written by intelligent people. When…
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On blog comments
I always get excited when I see an email in my inbox with a subject line that starts “WordPress:…” as it means someone has commented on one of my blogs. Such a simple delight I know but hey, you take pleasure in the little things I guess. Sometimes that delight is instantly crushed when I…
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Notes from a frazzled blogger
Alec Salmond, for it was the self-same leader of the SNP who was visiting our offices yesterday, is a man of varying sizes. I know this to be true because whilst I feel he looks taller and thinner in the flesh than he appears on-screen (the place where politicians live), a colleague thought he looked…
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Edinburgh Blogmeet
OK people, let’s meet! The first blogmeet of the year will be in Edinburgh, on the 19th May, and the venue will be confirmed closer to the date. I think the Jolly Judge may be getting a little small for our needs, but of course that depends largely on how many people turn up. As…
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Bloggies, a suggestion
Uh-oh. It’s that time of year again, when bloggers across the blogosphe interweb start ranting about how they “only do it for themselves” or how “it’s not a competition” and so on and so forth. But that’s just the people who weren’t nominated. Like me. Again. But let’s not dwell on that. This year there…
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I'm not blogging because…
… I’ve got a new camera to play with. A belated birthday present from my darling wife. … I’m burning CDs for my father-in-law in Spain. Hopefully I can delete them afterwards but Louise has similar tastes in music so I fear that Shakin’ Stevens and Showaddywaddy will be appearing on my last.fm account at…