Kit

Despite a few years in tech­no­logy journ­alism, and about, what?, 40 hardware reviews to my credit, my main interest nowadays in things non-​​​​internet is that it works. Things stopped working today and these are the three things I bought from PC World — my first visit in four years — and the story behind them.

Unexpectedly,

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Live and Blogging

A little spat has developed this week over some­thing called Liveblogging, which I found quite inter­esting because it brings up some con­ten­tious ideas and opinions about blogging in general. And I’m not refer­ring to the shameful ‘heavy fingers’ incident that spoiled the Guardian Changing Media con­fer­ence for one unfortunate woman…

Liveblogging refers to people blogging an

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Tumbling All the Way Home

Move over Twitter. All the smart kids are now Tumbling. What is a Tumble Blog? It’s like an internet scrap book. Quotes, RSS, pictures and mul­ti­media just stuck together in one place. When I first started this blog, that was actually exactly what I was looking for. I just wanted a place where I could keep and search the

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On Being Memed

Kent Newsome — happily returning to blogging this month after an extended period AWOL — asks me to “Name five reasons why you do (or do not) respond to memes” and tagged me in the process. The answer is that I do and this is why:

1. He did it so very nicely that I would feel

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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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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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