The Day Job

There’s a reas­on­ably good report (but watch out for the pop-​​​​ups) in the Christian Science Monitor about the micro-​​​​economy created by Google Ad-​​​​sense. For most people, as you’ll appre­ciate if you’ve ever used the platform, we’re talking very micro. The success stories cited in the report are making a cool $100 a month from their blogs. That’s

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Brooker Hates Macs

In today’s Guardian, Charlie Brooker has a tre­mendous rant at the new Apple vs Macs campaign and Macs in general. It is very funny indeed:

Aside from crowing about sar­torial dif­fer­ences, the adverts also make a big deal about PCs being asso­ci­ated with “work stuff” (Boo! Offices! Boo!), as opposed to Macs, which are appar­ently better

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Naked

I wonder how this video makes you feel:

It’s causing a small storm in the blo­go­sphere — espe­cially in the Jeff Jarvis camp. Prostituting the good name of citizen media and so forth. It’s a cause I’d normally be allied to. Robyn, the subject of the video, has her blog here.

A couple of things

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