Tag: Blog hosting services
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Pet Shop Boys on Social Media
New Pet Shop Boys EP ‘Agenda’ is out, and everyone is going on about the Trump-baiting track called Give Stupidity A Chance. I’m loving another catchier track with a wonderfully shady lyric video ‘On Social Media’. Might seem odd for someone who looks like the poster child of all things social to post this, but…
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What’s in a name?
Like many other people I rushed to join Google+, partly because I was finding Facebook a rather restrictive and passive aggressive space – like the insistence of ‘real names’ and forcing you to adopt ‘real-sounding’ names (they have no way of checking apart from keyword searches although will ask you to send ID if they…
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Google’s ‘blogocide’ deletes music blogs
(created with FAT’s great Google Tag script – love the ZEVS style one too) Apparently Google has deleted entirely several music blogs entirely for infringement of copyright – even the ones that posted tracks with permission from the record label, artists or management. I commented on this Guardian article, thought it bore repeating (and extending)…
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Blogging can kill you
Interesting article about blogging and stress – and the recent stress-related deaths of several professional bloggers. What I find most intriguing about the article is the description of professional bloggers and he sites, and that it’s become in part a digital sweatshop economy, where speed is of the essence. Certainly in the mashup world there…
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Facebook group
I’ve not only given in and joined Facebook (John of all people was bugging me to join, and others, unlike LJ it seems to have taken off here) Radio Clash now has a Facebook group! Cue bad innuendos about poking… But what’s in it for you? Well apart from showing your favourite podcaster some lurve…
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Web 2.0? 0.0.0.2 more like
Once upon a time, there was a little powercut in San Francisco… Why should I care you say? Well seeing that one powercut can wipe out Livejournal, Second Life, Craigslist, Technorati, Typepad…the list goes on, you wonder why in this apparent age of Web 2.0 these systems are still susceptible to one fatal flaw –…