I did an interview this morning with The Bunbury Mail, one of the local papers who read the article at the SMH the other week. The journo asked me the $99 million dollar question: what is a blog?.

I’ve previously defined it as this:

A Blog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, underpinned with a content delivery system which provides the ability to deliver content frequently and with little skill, which builds meaningful social connections or virtual communities on any and all subject matters

but well, this wasn’t going to cut it for a newspaper. My response: Citizen Journalism. I then went on to mention that a blog could be anything from a diary through to a newspaper style of site and anything in between. The question though is: are we ever going to have an easy way of defining blogging? I mean, a dog is an animal with fur, four legs and barks. But can we define a blog is such a short way?

Apparently only 1% of young Singaporeans believe blogs, but 88% of them read newspapers and it would seem, believe them more than blogs. This from a country well known for it repressive control of free speech.

Winston Smith need not apply for residency in Singapore.

Spotted this Adsense ad here at duncanriley.com

I’d think putting your mobile number in an Adsense ad would be cheating, wouldn’t it, because you’d no longer have to click on the ad?

Lots of buzz about running XP on a Mac, but I don’t get it. I’d rather run Mac OSX on a PC, for starters the hardware is cheaper, it runs faster, and it isn’t white. Now I know there are a lot of Mac users reading this, but at the end of the day I don’t have the luxury to buy a Mac, running a blog network sort of limits you flexibilty and income 🙂

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 🙂

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