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Is blogging a lost art? Has it been superseded by social media such as Facebook and Twitter? Do we only communicate now in 140-character snatches? I didn’t mean to start this post with such a complex series of questions. I really wanted to comment on comments etiquette. There are several…
January 9 2010, 9:42pm | Comments »
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I was invited earlier this month to join the Gifted Web Writers program. An unsolicited email on November 13 said my site had been discovered during a search “for high quality blogs and gifted web writers”. The writer referred to a specific post. “Michael, you definitely have a unique and…
November 17 2009, 9:11pm | Comments »
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This is a list of posts that I’ve made elsewhere in the past week, which may be of interest to some readers: Respect the flag Be Kind to Martians Week You can buy friends, apparently Holding and Della Bosca Balance of power Farmers forced off the land
September 5 2009, 1:59am | Comments »
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I received a stern email from The Blogger Team overnight saying my site for Border Watch Editorials has been marked as an evil spam blog. The email urges me to request a review if I dispute the classification and goes on to say: “Your blog will be deleted in 20…
August 19 2009, 11:37pm | Comments »
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I installed the Better Blogroll plugin for WordPress tonight. You can see it working in the sidebar. The plugin enables users to display a configurable number of random links. I’ve never used the WordPress links feature much, but plan to change that now. I was concerned about creating long blogrolls…
June 5 2009, 3:14am | Comments »
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I’m experimenting with a self-hosted Twitter-style multi-user blog at http://www.shortsay.com. It uses a modified version of the P2 theme. Anyone can login using their webmail or Facebook account to post or comment. The experiment is because I like the short post format, but feel Twitter has some limitations. I opened…
May 4 2009, 3:42am | Comments »
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I’m trialling the RPX authentication process for logging into this website. It’s a relatively new service by JanRain that adds passwordless sign-in and commenting to a site using OpenID, Facebook, MySpace, AOL, Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live. That means visitors will no longer be able to comment without logging in.…
March 19 2009, 5:35am | Comments »
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It was a quiet weekend, not much happening. I’ll be a taxi driver again soon enough once the hockey and soccer seasons get under way. In no particular order, these are some random musings and personal news items: I’m reading Stewart Cockburn’s biography of Sir Thomas Playford. The subtitle is…
March 15 2009, 4:53am | Comments »
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Thanks to Delmer, who got it from Nancy, who got it from Ree, who got it from Facebook, this “Google Game” is a great blog prompt. Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then “likes to” (eg “Steve likes to”). Type in the first 10 things…
February 16 2009, 5:34am | Comments »
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