I’m frustrated by dorkslayers.
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Year: 2001
Particularly observant regulars may notice that I’ve removed the link to TCN from the right-hand column of plasticbag.org. This is because my short stint of regular employment is coming to an end. I have a week more before the sporadics of freelance life take over again. Thankfully I’ve got a large bottle of tequila left from Gideon’s last visit, so I doubt I’ll stay depressed for long…
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Simon's evil photos of me…
Simon is responsible for a lot of the evil in the world. Well – maybe not a lot, but he is responsible for a photo-diary including pictures of the latest blogmeet. And frankly that’s evil enough for me. Pictures include: Stilllife of unwashed Tom’s jowls next to hot bloke sans hair product, Portrait of the Brainsluice as a Young Drinker, Flathead and Coy Girl, The Insane Visionary, Scruff and Scrawn (featuring Tom) and Pannett’s Social Pose.
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Do I look like Jack Nicholson?
Will someone answer honestly – do I look like Jack Nicholson?
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On receiving my gift from my Secret Santa…
I received my gift from Secret Santa today. It was all wrapped up and I didn’t want to spoil it for myself, so I’m going to save it until Christmas Day. Apart from the frustration of keeping the system running (which is more of a frustration for Cal I have to confess, because he handles the technical stuff on this project), this has been a tremendously rewarding experience. I know that other people’s gifts have started to arrive as well – and I hope everyone’s feeling the mood take them over.
The depressing thing about the Blogdex All-Time List is that there’s nowhere to go but down. In the few months that it has been up and running, I have gradually watched myself slump further and further down the list… Not that it matters, it doesn’t mean anything… It’s just kind of depressing that each time you pop in and check on who has been linking to your site recently, you see that it has become even less popular than such trivial institutions as Amazon, The World AIDS day ‘link and think’ campaign and some beardy gentleman called Jeffrey Zeldman. I mean – like anyone cares about them anyway? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “It’s all about me…” When will you bastards realise that?
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I really missed Napster…
Addendum to post about weblogs obsessing on the trivia of people’s lives. I should clarify that I wasn’t so much talking about the tendency to write about the trivia of one’s life, but about the public perception of the weblogging phenomenon. Since I started it seems to have evolved from being viewed as a kind of web filter or industry comment organ through to being a kind of dynamic diarist medium where quality of writing was paramount to finally being viewed as a populist organ for the dissemination of trivia. I have no problem with weblogs of any of these types – and in fact they all have existed in one for or another for years before Blogger emerged. What I’m slightly surprised by is how the dominant perception of them has changed from journalism to personal writing to trivia. The ‘potential’ of the form seems to have become less interesting to people…
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KPMG update…
KPMG update: Just gave a few quotes to a friend at the Big Issue about KPMG – it should be out on Monday if you’re interested. In the meantime, Chris was interviewed in the Observer last weekend – here’s a salient quote: “In other words, anyone seeking to place a link to it on their site requires prior approval from KPMG. It would be inappropriate for a family newspaper to summarise Raettig’s response to this preposterous assertion. The salient point is the staggering contempt for the web implicit in KPMG’s stance. It makes one wonder who would buy e-business consulting advice from a firm that takes such a line? “
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On being blown away by Matt Webb…
I was out drinking with webloggers last night and Matt and I were busy comparing toys, and he showed me the article that he pubished on upsideclown today. And I was blown away.