From the monthly archives:

November 2006

Moving blogs

November 27, 2006

For some time now, I’ve been intending to move my blog to my own domain (www.ianbetteridge.co.uk, or www.technovia.co.uk) and in the process move from Typepad to WordPress. This move isn’t because of unhappiness with Typepad – it’s a great service, and I’d thoroughly recommend it to virtually anyone – but simply because I want to [...]

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Second Life – It’s all about the escorts

November 26, 2006

Of course, having seen this I could hardly resist posting something from it: Most american articles rarely mention that there is something in Second Life which has to do with Sex whereas the German articles most correctly state that there is also a lot of sex involved. Cheap sex to be precise. If you look [...]

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Second Life spam

November 26, 2006

If you use a site that’s designed to help you make and maintain contacts, such as LinkedIn, you’ll be familiar with the occasional random requests to make friends. These usually come from people that you might know (but probably don’t), half know (but don’t want to know more) or just plain old don’t know at [...]

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Tony Tyler, RIP

November 2, 2006

“I want you to know, for when your time comes,” Tyler told his wife, her sister and mother two days before he died, his curiosity about the mysteries of life and death undiminished, “that this isn’t really too bad. It’s quite dealable with.” I had the good fortune to be Tony Tyler’s editor at MacUser, [...]

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Mark Anderson blogging

November 1, 2006

As Dave Winer notes, Mark Anderson, writer of the hugely influential Strategic News Service email newsletter is now blogging. I met Mark a couple of years ago while working at PC Pro magazine, and he’s probably one of the smartest people I’ve ever met. Mark has already written an excellent analysis of the issues surrounding [...]

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Blogging vs MSM Hogwash

November 1, 2006

With the amount of busy time I have at the moment, it takes something to actually rouse me to blog. Jason Calacanis, who really should know better, manages it: "Kudos to Sean Bonner for stepping in and standing up for Xeni (and bloggers breaking news everywhere) when Washington Post journo Brian Krebs cribbed her story [...]

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