Tag: Social software
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Blogrolled by DeLong
Brad DeLong is a Berkeley economist and a member of the blogging elite. He’s a living (blogging) reminder that sometimes brevity sucks. One of these days I’m going to have…
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Oh God, I’m a moonie
Dave Green has got my number. He’s written a well-timed (but quite gentle) debunking of our collective blogging obsession and succeeded in making me feel distinctly uncomfortable about my twice-a-day…
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Bowblog – like reading the Sunday papers on Monday
Couple of good articles from sections of The Observer I don’t usually look at. I like the look af Matali Crasset’s playful interior and product design in the colour magazine.…
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Blogger basher
Bill Thompson has flipped. According to this article for the BBC (and in no particular order): blogging is not journalism and will not effect mainstream journalists, link frequency and pagerank…
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No substitute for a fat consulting fee
I’ve just noticed that the sweeties at think tank Demos have given me a heart-warming credit on their new weblog. ‘Inpired by Steve Bowbrick’ it says. This is in lieu…
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Power laws
Bloggers are fixating on ‘power laws’. I’ve read all the stuff (including Clay’s perfectly sane starting point) and it’s obviously useful stuff with plenty of predictive power but it’s dry…
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asynchronous pulsation!
Technorati provides evidence of my first ever French inbound link ? from Mario, a Head Teacher in Quebec (directeur d’?cole = Head Teacher?). Thrilling. Better still is Babelfish’s translation of…
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My favourite search terms
People arriving at my web site via a search engine are searching for the strangest things. According to my logs the number one search term is “The Gruffalo” which makes…
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Bowbrick at large
My latest column for Guardian Online is up. It’s headlined Secret of their success and it’s about weblogs and the uniquely conversational tone of really good bloggers.