Newly upgraded robot journalist, improvement from previous versions, including ambient anomaly detection ability for seeking of stories. Upgrade robot abilities including subject photographing and subject interviewing automatically. Further including abilities to publish stories to internet instantly.
If I owned a BlackBerry, I would now be able to write and edit Giz posts directly from my mobile with the release of the official WordPress app on the Australian BlackBerry App World.
Writing from the future, Pope Benedict XVI is urging his followers, including priests, to “be present in the world of digital communications”, using “images, videos, animated features, blogs and websites”, all with the aim of converting people to the church.
Rob from Boing Boing Gadgets has posted a piece on the various types of crappy blog post forms found scattered about the internet like so much, uh, lazy writing. He’s right! We do use a bunch of the same forms over and over again, sometimes because said forms are what fit the content best and sometimes because we just write so many damned posts every day it’s just easier to use tried and true formulas. Here’s what he had as #10:
To mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries of George Orwell they’re being published online “live” as a blog, 70 years to the day he wrote them. The project started August 9th, and so far the entries are about strangely bland stuff: the weather and the antics of catching some snakes at his home. More what you’d expect from Eric Arthur Blair (his real name) rather than deep insights into the mind that created Big Brother. This is his domestic diary, though… the political one (which starts September 7th) will make for very interesting reading. I wonder what Orwell would’ve thought of this idea, and indeed the slightly Orwellian society we seem to be living in.
