Weblogging to war

I read Kevin’s post about the Weblog Awards 2005, and agree with that quality matters more than quantity. This triggered off a thought – what are my personal guidelines for this blog? I’ve never written them down before as this is an ongoing thing, but these are probably the main points: I do not blog…

Network Solutions can be a real pain in the neck when it comes to domain registry transfer requests. Transfers away from them, that is (surprise, surprise). Firstly, by today’s standards they are expensive. Their annual registration rates have remained unchanged since the Stone Age, where they enjoyed monopoly rights. Which is why I see no…

That’s right – Too Much Information = No Time. A few of us Social Media folks were recently discussing how we’re past the phase where we read lots of news feeds. With easy-aggregation tools like Google Reader, there’s a tendency to oversubscribe to too many news websites and blogs. We end up skimming or not…

From Kottke: Kevin Sites, CNN correspondent at the frontlines, has been asked to suspend his weblog.

Think of a car. When it was first invented, everybody wanted to sit in one (I assume. Just humour me). People don’t care so much where the car takes them Or whether it gives them a quality ride. It’s just so novel. In time, when cars become mainstream… Quality becomes more important. And getting the…

I’m making use of this domain downtime to tweak little Vanny’s blog and help Kottonwool set up her database and migrate from Blogger to MT. Come Friday, my company will be shifting office, and we will only have a 56k modem connection to share among the 10 (or 9? or 8? I’m losing count) of…