Tag Archives: Blogging
Who’s Blog Is This Anyway? Off-Topic Comments, and why I kill them.
I’d better give some background. A while back I wrote a less than complimentary post about Lefty. Lefty responded, as did several other people, who when I checked all seemed to be the same person, and all of whom were attacking Lefty over something they claimed that he had done. And I let them post. After all, this was on Blogger, and the reason I had the account on Blogger was it was free, and I wanted to practise my writing. I wasn’t writing on anything important, just writing for the sake of writing. Continue reading
Writing, writing, writing
I’ve been writing a lot lately, mostly non-fiction, and posting it to blogger. Well, I was. Then my wife’s brother-in-law gave me the Christmas Present that every aspiring writer needs. My own website So if you want to read non-fiction … Continue reading
Through the Looking Glass – Rebooted
A long time ago I started a BBS called Through the Looking Glass. It was a private board, open by invitation only, to people who had piqued my interest. To become a member, you had to be recommended by someone who was already a member, or meet me somewhere, and prove that you could think your way out of a wet paper bag. Continue reading
Spam vs Blog Posting – is there a correlation?
Ah, spam. I remember the good old days in ALT.SEX.CTHULHU when we took great delight in lampooning spam. Of course we got a better quality of spam in those days! Seriously. And we had a lot of fun doing things … Continue reading
Soon, Bloggers Must Give Full Disclosure – Title courtesy of the NY Times
The rest of the article doesn’t matter really, it just reiterates that the FTC is going to require bloggers to “disclose” any financial relationships. I wrote about the issue, and how some companies are hoping to avoid like legislation in … Continue reading
The Enemies List
Joe McCarthy. Richard Nixon. Bill Gates. All had Enemies Lists. Now we have the so-called Boycott Boys list. To quote Verofakto: Oh Hi! I take it you are most worried about being listed as one of Schestowitz’ abrasive sycophants? David … Continue reading
Gartner tries for Asshole of the Month club
Yep. The head of the Microsoft fan club is trying for Asshole of the Month club. Networkworld received an email from Gartner stating that: Per our Copyright and Quote Policy, available at the link below and at any time from … Continue reading
It’s sad when a great site goes downhill
The Inq used to be great. When Mad Mike started it they refused to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements. When you got news, it was real. Well, now they do sign Non-Disclosure Agreements. And now I don’t read the Inquirer anymore.
Trolls, trolls, trolls
I’ve been busy for the last week or so, holidays. But I just ran into something I had to share. It’s a post on the VisInsights blog titled Buzz Marketing techniques to become illegal in UK? Why am I pointing … Continue reading
Options
I ended up moving most of my stuff to Facebook. Facebook is great for things like keeping in touch with Auntie Sue (who lives in France). Doing this I ignored the fact that Livejournal is also great for other things. … Continue reading
