Tom Morris: 2006-01-17

Also, if you're waiting for bbCity to return (as I am), I have made a feed which you can subscribe to which will tell you exactly what is going on. You can find it here. 2006-01-17T21:40:55Z

For people awaiting a working bbCity, I must continue to apologise: I am having problems with a file called wpmu-functions.php, and it's being extraordinarily obstinate. Do not worry: all your data is safely backed up in two locations. 2006-01-17T21:15:21Z

Daniel Curran is listing Google's highest paid search terms: mesothelioma, asbestos, home equity loans, video conferencing, debt problems and much more. 2006-01-17T17:39:21Z

I guess Australia are going down our silly, sad route. It'll end up costing you lots of money and aiding the spread of Evil Stuff. 2006-01-17T17:33:05Z

Josie Appleton is describing our Chancellor's 'patriotism' plans. I like the fact that he's chosen "liberty, responsibility and fairness". Those are the values whhich our government have tried tirelessly to prevent. 2006-01-17T17:30:36Z

Guardian Eduation has an article discussing science on TV. 2006-01-17T17:18:25Z

Rod Kratochwill: "My most difficult task is being able to describe the sometimes tenuous connections that tie my ideas together. The ideas are interesting and important but it is the stuff that connects them that is what makes them so." 2006-01-17T17:13:31Z

I'm seriously considering the MacBook Pro. My iBook is getting quite long-in-the-tooth and not worth much (non-broken ones are going on eBay for around £200 - who knows what broken ones like mine will go for?). I spend more and more time in front of my Mac, and I can currently get academic discount on Apple products. This won't last beyond 2007 (unless I come back for postgrad), so now would seem almost the perfect time to upgrade. Time for an Amazon clearout, I think. 2006-01-17T14:59:37Z

BusinessLogs have just proven that they don't actually understand what 'syndication' is. If you don't want your content to be syndicated, don't publish a syndication feed. With syndication, you can use what you are given. If you are given full content, you can use it (though I wouldn't, because I prefer summaries). But, of course, it's the archiving that belies it. If they are 'taking' your content, they aren't simply utilising your RSS, they're actually keeping copies. 2006-01-17T12:11:46Z

Anne Zelenka has a post on information overload. 2006-01-17T11:13:54Z

Don't you just love Hollywood? 2006-01-17T11:06:22Z

They're all bitching over at P.Z.'s place about how Dembski's blog has gone to shit (well, further into said excrement). I guess the ex-proprietor must have buggered off to get an intelligently designed steak (oh, how we kid!). 2006-01-17T09:17:16Z

Big Damn Heroes has got it wrong on Reading Lists. Feeds don't necessarily die. For instance, if we're using the Supreme Court example, say we included a Google Blog Search feed for "Samuel Alito hearings". This is a short-lived feed, not because it goes offline in a week or two and starts turning out 410's. It's because in a week or two the content won't be relevant. Reading lists in this instance are useful, because it means that people with the expertise on a topic can point people without expertise to the topics they are interested in a manner which is time sensitive. 2006-01-17T09:08:29Z

Joystiq are muttering about some writing by the creator of Parappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy. Oh, the memories. 2006-01-17T09:04:48Z

Kent Newsome is comparing blogging and Solitaire. Both are solitary and both, arguably, waste the valuable time of desk-bound white-collar employees. But does blogging produce something better than the jargon-strewn PowerPoint presentations that said office monkeys tend to produce when clocked on? Even if they're just trading cat pictures, it's not like their blogs could be worse than their work output. 2006-01-17T09:00:25Z

George Galloway seems to be doing as many things outside the house as inside. He's made himself a robot version of himself. It wanders around Westminster and says things like "evil and unjustified war! No to Bush! Blair is evil! I'm a pussycat! I'm a pussycat!!" 2006-01-17T08:56:07Z

Thanks for the rapid response! 2006-01-17T08:49:24Z

Good News Alert: The Guardian are reporting on how the Lords are making it difficult for the government's latest attempt at experimental fascism and chronic misuse of taxpayer's money: the ID Cards Bill. 2006-01-17T08:46:02Z

Am I missing something? Or is this nonsensical? Blogger is to writer as journalist, novelist, technical writer, playwright, poet or any other number of descriptions are to writer - a subset. Shakespeare was both a playwright, a poet and writer. Similarly, one is both a blogger and a writer on the basis that one writes in the weblog format, much as one is a poet if one writes in quatrains and iambic pentameter. 2006-01-17T08:40:50Z

I'm nothing if not totally critical of our dear government, but I have to side with David Aaranovitch this morning. This whole thing with the paedophile teachers really is totally and utterly bonkers. I was listening to the podcast of Radio 4's Today from yesterday. Margaret Morrissey was hyperventilating so much that I'm surprised the Daily Mail wasn't round to pick her up in their special Anti-Paedo Rapid Response Unit truck. Paedophilia is a sickness, and we need to deal with it calmly and rationally rather than shouting and screaming like spoilt toddlers. I am even beginning to have some sympathy with the otherwise totally barmy Ruth Kelly. 2006-01-17T08:27:10Z

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2006.01.17