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John McAfee Started A Blog About John McAfee
Can’t get enough of the wild saga of murder suspect and anti-virus pioneer John McAfee? Great, because he just started a blog about his fugitive life on the lam in Belize. Bless you, internet.
Do You Still Have A Personal Blog?
Once upon a time, it seemed like everyone had a LiveJournal, or Blogspot, or TypePad, or WordPress, or ahem, Xanga. Then came the evolutions of sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr which took the focus away from the blog post and emphasised the sharing of short thoughts, links, photos and whatever else. Nowadays, it seems that nless you’re a writer or some sort of public personality, you probably don’t have a personal blog full of “entries”.
Why Dave Winer Invented The Blog
If you’re reading these lines it’s because of this man. He’s Dave Winer, the inventor of blogs and RSS syndication, two of the backbones of the web. Often controversial, always challenging, this is the story of what got him inspired to do it all.
Report Recommends Regulating Big Aussie Blogs
Arguments are raging worldwide about whether media organisations, including newspapers and television stations, should be more tightly regulated. An independent assessment of Australia’s media argues that newspapers need much more effective regulation than currently exists and that a new body should handle this, but also suggest bloggers should be included. That’s a reasonable suggestion for large blogs, I reckon, but it could be fiddly to implement.
Behold This Treasure Trove Of Mistaken Text Messages
There’s a strange quirk in US carrier Verizon’s text messaging system. When entering a recipient, if their phone number doesn’t pop up with their name and you send it anyway, it may go to someone else. That someone else is often Leila.
A Vintage Photo Blog That’s Actually Pretty Cool
More People Are Tumblr’ing Than Using WordPress Blogs
In just four years, Tumblr has overtaken the eight-year-old WordPress as the blogging platform du jour. Tumblr now has over 20,870,000 blogs. Mostly about cats and gifs, from what I can see. [Mashable]
The Past, Present And Future Of Our Internet Loneliness
Does being on the internet ever make you feel like you’re alone in the world? It should! Because this is basically how we live now: more and more ways to shout into the void, fewer and fewer people listening. Unless you’ve got, like, a kickass podcast, maybe?
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