Posts in category "blogging"

Referrer traffic from TailRank. Nothing too remarkable about that but an absolutely fantastic opportunity for a Viz style subject line.

Finbar Saunders

I didnt mind Tom Kyte copying my PhotoBlog idea but now he is using my fantastic, amusing blog entry about the loss of Interweb connectivity in a hotel as a source for inspiration without the courtesy of an attribution or a [Via] reference.

What next ? The 'death' of a domestic rodent ?

If this blatant plagiarism continues, I will be forced to take action.

I note Tom Kyte is shamelessly copying my exciting and innovative photoblog idea but appears to using a slightly more expensive camera.

Pity I was not able to attend Tom's 2 day seminar in London. That would have been very interesting. Maybe next time.

Web 2.0 aficionados, across the globe, held their collective breath today as Mr. Norman Brightside, a little known and largely unsung blogger, from Newcastle (near Norway) delivered his much awaited, quarterly update to his renowned State of the Blogosphere address.

Fresh from the successful launch of a book club, Brightside told an adoring and expectant audience:

The blogosphere is in a right old state. There are a few more blogs appearing and the rate of growth is directly proportional to a fascinating new factor. Blogging growth = Technorati apology growth

For example, last month you might see the apology appear once a day. Now you see the apology twice a day. You can immediately conclude that the blogosphere has doubled in size during the period.

And, err, that's it.

In the first 13 minutes of 20 April 2006, there was a single hit on this blog (no names, no pack-drill). Curiously, the recently added WordPress feed statistics reported a surprising and rather unlikely number of 53 estimated number of people who used certain tools to read your feed' in the same period.

Now this is simply not true. Most of these 53 'people' were RSS spiders and automatons dumbly and repeatedly polling for any activity. The associated human being is probably down the pub or asleep.

While the RSS feed may have been subscribed to at some point (by me in all probability) in the past, they are all now sitting unloved and unread in a still born Web 2.0 beta account.

Michael Brundage writes an popular article about what it is really like to work at Microsoft. Flexible working environment, minimal paperwork, hard work, gripes about managers, free drinks. So nothing too earth shattering or surprising there.

But what struck me about this blog is that it isn't a blog. It is simply a good old fashioned Web page.

No categories. No comments. No statistics. No trackbacks. No fancy themes. No calendar. No widgets. No plugins.

Just words that fill most of the screen on a HTML page. And undoubtedly the most interesting content I have stumbled across this week.

Sometimes, less is more.

I was seriously considering selling all my stock options and purchasing a 1GB USB memory stick for an amazing 30 GBP.

Then I thought I would get an account at box.net and upload all the precious files, that my wife sadly lost when my hard disk died a couple of years ago, there instead. This has the advantages that if I ever need to take my memory stick to Seattle to show Auntie Rita, this will be possible, I won’t be able to leave the memory stick in a client’s PC in Eastern Europe and, finally, it will cost me 30 GBP less.

I haven’t used the box.net service much but there is a nice drag’n’drop interface for uploading folders and multiple files and it seems intuitive and quick. There is a free 1GB service available and you pay for additional storage which seems fair enough.

If you are interested in trying out the box.net service, then please, please click HERE! (so I can upgrade to the Deluxe, Premium, Gold 512GB service free of charge) as all the worst Web sites (used to) say.

Since the Regulus theme was added to WordPress last November, I have stuck with it through thick and thin, for richer for poorer, through sickness and in health.

Lots of themes have subsequently been introduced to Wordpress and I always preview each of them but none of them look as easy on the eye and as functional as Regulus.

However, I must say that the recently added 'Andreas04' theme is very attractive and had me dithering for a moment. You can see this theme in action, down under, at squash.wordpress.com, by Phil Sim, who was obviously similarly impressed.

I am not going to report on the Starting From Zero meme again until day 666, with no more intermediate steps along the way. I am tired of the project, personally, and its obviously driving others mad, too.

Thanks to Igor (who is a human being and not a monster) kindly modifying an inbound link, an article briefly appearing in Dave Sifry's Link Cosmos (a proud moment indeed) and a citation from this very odd gentleman, this blog has edged up the Technorati ladder

Day 211. Technorati Rank: 145,329 (33 links from 19 sites)

However, the grim realisation is slowly dawning that there is more chance of MUFC catching Chelsea than my humble blog overtaking Stowe Boyd. Consequently, I have reluctantly lowered my sights and now have Doug Burns (bathing in the afterglow of the HotSos effect) on my radar.

Technorati Rank: 74,565 (161 links from 33 sites)