My deep philosophical thought for the day.
Ever get the feeling that people think that you know nothing about anything? Does silence therefore become a virtue, a position in which you are better taking so as to maintain a high moral ground? or are you better off arguing to a brick wall?
Food for thought.
(pic via Freerepublic)
Darren has an excellent guide up on how to apply for a blogging job. It’s amazing from the other end the variation you do get from applications for blogging positions. Sure, the blogosphere and blogging are generally informal in their structures and general usage of the English language but this doesn’t mean your application should be totally informal (and by extension done lazily) as well. The rule I would recommend to others: treat applying for a blogging job the same way you would (or should) apply for an offline job. You need to grab the employers attention, you need to be at least a little bit formal, and you should justify your application, for example show examples of your work, talk about what you’d think you’d bring to the position etc….
My new word for today: kvetch, or it’s variation, kvetches. I’d never heard the word prior to today, and yet Jeremy used a variation of it (kvetchy) in an email I was party to, and Dave Winer used it in a post.
According to The Free Dictionary, kvetch means:
1. A chronic, whining complainer.
2. A nagging complaint
The simple variation in Australian English, so it would seem, would simply be the verb: whinge, or used to describe someone, as in the noun: whinger, or a f*cking whinger as the case may be to create a stronger use of someone who whinges.
Tags: Odd American Words
This sheilas a brunette so she cant even use dumb blonde as an excuse: Threadwatch has the details, but compare and contract, the Mediabistro.com post was the first to be published.
Looks like Chris Pirillo’s comic venture is improving…certainly this comic is dead on 🙂
This from the Beeb. I haven’t personally owned a game console since the Atari 2600, and yet I was really, really looking forward to the Wii, it sounds like the sort of console a non-console gamer like me would want, and yet if the beeb article is correct it will come in at around $420 AUD…just a little bit to much for my liking, if it was $299 or similar I’d be tempted, but I’m not paying over $400 dollars for a gaming machine when my main PC and my Win XP MCE box already do games really well (note on the MCE box when I do play games, its Mame stuff, like the original arcade version of Outrun). Then again, I could win lotto?! 🙂
Andrew Sullivan has some interesting figures on the decline in readership of US political blogs this year. The question is though is, have political blogs had their day? I can see some arguing that the drop off is because the US is half way through the Presidential cycle, and yet I remember reading last year, when the slump started, that it was only a slump due to there being no elections in 2005…and yet the US has mid-term elections this year and the figures keep dropping. I’d guess that there will be some pickup in the lead up to the next US Presidential elections, however I think the glory days of political blogging and bloggers has passed.
In honour of Aaron who thinks I’ve been America bashing, 10 reasons Australia might be better off if it was an American State:
1. We’d have the F22 Raptor…need I say more.
2. All Aboriginal land would have casinos on them
3. We wouldn’t have to wait 6-12 months to catch new television programs
4. TiVo would work here, and I could get a free EPG for my MCE Box
5. We’d actually produce movies that people would want to watch
6. We’d have an Interstate System (imagine the Pacific Highway going in a straight line from Sydney to Brisbane with 6 lanes!)
7. Cenberra would no longer be required.
8. Lower Tax Rates
9. Telstra would have been broken up and sold off in the late 70s, early 80s. As a consquence we’d have cheaper phone, mobile and internet charges
10. We could spell gaol jail.
Duncan Riley on SiliconANGLE Chiang Mai One
