Month: April 2001

Our first clue in the Pickard conspiracy comes with Mo Morgan’s feature: “When We Were Very Young”. Are we really expected to believe that the picture purporting to be NotSoSoft is anything other than a nameless child of some anarcho-syndicalist post-revolutionary group? Possibly the most terrifying thing about this infantilist rogues gallery is that Davo hasn’t changed a bit.

The conspiracy is afoot. Could it really be possible that over a year of weblog entries are a complete fabrication? Could it be that the woman behind the posting is not a woman at all, but in fact a team of drunken teen hooligans with a strange, sick sense of humour. Ask yourself now, before it’s too late… Is Meg Real?.

On tiny worlds: So I’m working at Arehaus again, and they have a part of their site which has their top-ten sites on it. I found this out last night by talking to Matt, who has another site (upsideclown.com) which is in this chart. So I ask around the office today about who chose that site, and it’s Emma – who is apparently quite knowledgeable about weblogs in general. She mentions Jason for one and about how she was going to set up her own site at blogging.com. So I mention that I have a site of my own, called plasticbag.org and she looks a bit blank. She’s clearly never been. My ego is crushed, of course. It seems as if my legend-in-my-own-lunchbox-ness has been heavily compromised. I now – it seems – only have enough legend to fit inside an old yoghurt carton, or perhaps a Club wrapper.

Should anyone really need yet another introduction to the whole wonderful online mess that is weblog-culture, there’s an article on it in the Guardian Online supplement today [online here].

There are days when it’s raining outside when you just want to crawl into a hole and curl up in a ball and go to sleep, and get some peace and quiet, and feel relaxed, and not wake up for years.

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I went for a drink last night with Matt to cheer him out about some work stuff he’s dealing with at the moment. Instead, after scouring Goodge Street for Haddock.org members and Black Belt Jones, I got all mournful in a bar and smoked too much.

Question: This one is for all the IT professionals out there. I need to know this information pretty much immediately: What is the difference between a ‘Sole Trader’ and a ‘Limited Company’ – which one is the cheapest and the least hassle for a short piece (1 month) of freelance work? [E-mail Tom]

The lifecycle of a meme on the internet: Nike shoe personalisation and sweatshop labour.

More film sites courtesy of Matthew Ivan Ford of Time Out:

• IMDB
• Short Film Database
• Screening the past
• Film Philosophy
• ReadFilm.com
• Film Comment
• Scope
• film.com
• Melon Farmers
• Bright Lights Film