Two kings of blogging meet; what more can I say?
Robert Scoble and Mr Brown:
Thanks to Jeremiah for the heads up!
[This embed code is really screwing up my standards compliance. No time to fix it, can’t be bothered actually. Just won’t embed stuff from this site again.]
[ Update: 9 of us so far! I’ll send everyone an email this week. In the meantime, read about what my co-organiser RamblingLibrarian has to say about the meetup. ] A few of us were thinking of setting up blogs in our organisations. Then we thought, why not have an informal Gahmen Bloggers Meetup? There…
An article on Kinja, Nick Denton’s new weblog aggregating service, has taken up page 38 of The Straits Times today (well, actually it was taken from the New York Times; subscription required). I signed up for the service after reading Kottke’s post. You can find the link under my Menu. Some of my favourite blogs…
Soon after reading Ben’s Oct 13 post on comment spamming and how to prevent it using Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist, I discovered that one of my old posts has been violated. Vandalised. Whatever. Looks like I’ll have to do a little tinkering with my website once again. Anyhow, spamming is not a credible way to sell…
Everybody’s asking me what a blog is, this morning. Well it’s derived from ‘web log’, which to me is an online journal where you publish your thoughts, and if possible provide links to the things you’re talking about. A good example of a non-personal weblog is that of the Guardian’s, which provides links to the…
It’s encouraging to hear from so many people who’d like to start their own weblogs. To answer your questions, here are some resources: Free blog hosting List of sites on About.com Paid hosting (For those who want to run advanced content management systems) Check out web host reviews or directories such as Tophosts before making…
Hmm. Check out the price list, and tell me if you’d want to pay US$14.95 a month for the exclusive (i.e. not included in the Basic and Plus packages) ability to edit your templates. True, you do get 200MB a month and a decent 3GB bandwidth. Of course you could have multiple authors to split…