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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Google Blog Search & Former Audiences

Results 1–10 of about 8,678 for ‘sorry-​​​​for-​​​​not-​​​​posting’ (0.06 seconds)

Results 1–10 of about 223,303 for ‘I-​​​​am-​​​​sorry’ (0.10 seconds)

Results 1–10 of about 2,477 for ‘very-​​​​busy-​​​​with-​​​​work’ (0.07 seconds)

Results 1–10 of about 2,592 for ‘I-​​​​will-​​​​try-​​​​harder’ (0.08 seconds)

We had a cool event yes­terday at work on the subject ‘Do Agencies Innovate?’, so that knocked out last night (far-​​​​too-​​​​long and elab­orate write-​​​​up

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Citebite Redux

You’ll recall citebite, the citation tool that worked fant­ast­ic­ally with Firefox, and not at all with IE? Well, now it does. Well done, guys. (and thanks for the reminder, Stuart).

I’m honour-​​​​bound to break the news of the exist­ence of a poten­tial com­peting service, though. Ranjit Padmanabhan tells me he’s launched a product called

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A Geek Too Far?

Old? Geeky? Check out this amazing-​​​​looking blog.

Even more sur­pris­ingly, it’s appar­ently built on WordPress.

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