Caught a little bit of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony last night, only a little bit, and what did I see? dancing Koala’s. God, the cultural cringe…. as the ad should go, Where the f*ck in the world are you, and then I’d add, hopefully not in Melbourne during the Commonwealth Games 🙂
More at The Spin Starts Here.
Looks like Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, the so-called blogging site of the stars, has been indulging in a little pretend blogging in the name of George Clooney. Just goes to prove why blogging is really the communications tool of the masses, not the elites, because the gliterati of Hollywood just can’t be trusted. Indeed, after this why would anyone believe anything written at the Huffington Post?
Quidzilla over at the SEO Black Hat blog gives some great advice to teens looking at making it online: Learn how to speak and write correctly. Of course, given my poor spelling and grammar (18 years of spell checking does that) I should never be one to give this advice, however he makes a good point, I read some teen blogs and I don’t understand a word.
Trevor Cook and Cameron Reilly are both 100% right on the new Australian cross-media ownership laws. Trevor points our that the MSM just don’t get it. He’s right, they are so insular they don’t see what’s going on around them and it will also be their eventual downfall. Atleast the US Media can see the threat. Blogs are one form of diversity, but I can say right now that I already watch internet TV on my main TV. I’ve got a dedicated Win XP Media Center Edition box attached to it and I regularly listen to Internet Radio and watch Internet TV. I can even get things like Reuters and MSNBC news clips and stories on demand. That is the future of diversity, geograhpy is no longer in the equation, as long as you’ve got access to a decent internet service nothing else really gets in your way any more.
Yep, new server (on the b5media one now), and new coat of paint. Thanks to the people who offered to redesign it, in particular Jesse (who needs to send me the best link for her). The blog has sort of joined the b5media stable so I could essentially cheat and tweak the b5media template, which makes things a whole lot more easier 🙂
The latest from the team that bought you Memeorandum and Tech.Memorandum: WeSmirch.
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And I though the Western Australian Government Railways were bad (or TransWA or what ever they call themselves this week), check this one out: British Rail patented a Thermonuclear powered flying saucer!
We love you Dave, don’t go.
The day Dave Winer quits blogging though will be the top of the blogging market in terms of growth, because if and when Dave stops so will the growth in blogging because one of the plugs and the bottom of the blogosphere would have been pulled. Sure, he’s a grumpy old bastard at times, self absorbed….but you know, having him there is like a constant to many people in the blogosphere, and if he goes there will be a big hole.
Results here. Congrats to Darren at Problogger for taking out an award. Lobbylu won Australia’s best blog for about the 5000th year running….yawn, but the real upset this year is the lack of the big blog network sites on the winners list. From what I can see I can’t see a Weblogs Inc., site on it, and only Wonkette from Gawker Media…