From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Second Life versus Twitter: Showing you the money

June 29, 2009

Twitter isn’t as profitable as Second Life: Estimated revenue of Second Life holding company, in 2008: $96 million Estimated revenue of Twitter holding company, in 2008: $0 million via nwn.blogs.com I’ve been venturing into SL a little more lately, and it’s still an amazing achievement. And, as WJA notes, profitable. Posted via web from Ian [...]

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Man cleared over Girls Aloud blog

June 29, 2009

A former civil servant who wrote an internet article imagining the kidnap and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud has been cleared of obscenity.Darryn Walker, 35, of South Shields, South Tyneside, was charged under the Obscene Publications Act after the blog appeared on a fantasy pornography site. He appeared at Newcastle Crown Court, but [...]

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links for 2009-06-29

June 29, 2009

Posterous feels like the roots of blogging If you look back through my blog to the dim and distant past – otherwise known as 2002 – you'll notice something about it. There's lots of short bits, links, pictures and quotes with comments. Later on … Chutzpah via palmwebos.org You have to admire their balls. … [...]

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Posterous feels like the roots of blogging

June 28, 2009

If you look back through my blog to the dim and distant past – otherwise known as 2002 – you’ll notice something about it. There’s lots of short bits, links, pictures and quotes with comments. Later on, it changes. Posts become longer and more like news stories or essays. They also get more few and [...]

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Chutzpah

June 28, 2009

via palmwebos.org You have to admire their balls. Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream

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British music boss: we should have embraced Napster

June 28, 2009

Geoff Taylor, head of UK major label trade group BPI, wrote an op-ed piece for the BBC today in which he called Napster the “Rosetta Stone of digital music,” said it was “simple to understand and use,” and said that the music industry should have “embraced Napster rather than fighting it.” via arstechnica.com I can’t [...]

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Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » The Mainstream Media

June 28, 2009

“Okay, I’m making a new rule: whenever I’m reading something online and I see the phrase “The Mainstream Media,” I’m instantly deducting 40 credibility points from the author. It’s a meaningless phrase and to use it indicates either laziness or sloppiness. Worst, it’s often a cheap debating technique best used by con men to imply [...]

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links for 2009-06-28

June 28, 2009

Uh oh: more productivity out of the window as Flight Control v1.3 Adds Peer-To-Peer Multiplayer via appadvice.com Damn, just as I'd safely managed to stop playing the last version. …

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