Tag: Internet culture
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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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Live Writer
Testing the new Live Writer on this blog, works well and gives you a preview of the page. Spooky for a Microsoft product this actually works! For some reason it posts twice though – editing is OK but a new post gets 2 of them with the same name – WTF? Just tried this on…
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Andrew Keen RSA lecture
I went to a lecture and discussion called ‘The Digital Seduction’ at Royal Society of Arts last night. Speaking was Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur’ and Tim Montgomery, editor of ConservativeHome.com (I am SO not linking that), and humorously chaired by Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive. There’s been a lot of…
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Feed problem
Subscribers – because of a problem with the feed you might not have gotten shows 106 or 107 – please check! [geek] Weirdly Libsyn unlike other webservers does not report file size or correct content type when you add a file enclosure – it gives it 0 length and says it’s a HTML file! Looks…
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Second Degree Life?
OK firstly I’ll post this predictable piece of humour, as posted many times in all of the places on the Net I go, in a nudge-nudge-wink-wink sort of style. Now I’ll tear it to pieces. You know it’s funny how people are quite happy to do really nerdy things nowadays invented by geeks, but when…