While I may enjoy blogging and running this here blog, I do loathe and detest the actual word blog… it sounds like someone devised the word while – quite literally – in the ablution block.
First of all, I would like to express just how tremendously ugly a word “blog” really is. It reminds me of [...]
Articles posted to the {blogs} subset
This is why I’d rather call blogs “online notepads” instead
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 to the blogs subset
Blogger cop Night Jack named, the end of anonymous blogging?
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 June, 2009 to the blogs subset
Night Jack, a blog written by an anonymous British detective which I linked to in April after it won the Orwell special prize for blogs, has been taken off-line after the British High Court allowed the previously secret identity of its author to be published.
In a landmark decision, Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an [...]
Night Jack, the musings of a blogging police officer
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 28 April, 2009 to the blogs subset
The blog of an English police officer, who is known only as Night Jack, has been named winner of the Orwell special prize for blogs on account of its gritty yet engaging writing style:
The dispatches of the pseudonymous copper do not always make for cheerful reading. One of the earliest posts told the story of [...]
50 of the world’s best food blogs, hungry work this
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 11 March, 2009 to the blogs subset
Following on from last week’s mention of Australia’s Top 30 food blogs, now check out 50 of the world’s best food blogs
Australia’s Top 30 Food blogs
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 2 March, 2009 to the blogs subset
Sydney Food and photo blogger Jennifer Lam has compiled a list of Australia’s Top 30 food blogs.
I’m still not sure whether these blogs are best visited before eating or after…
25 Best Blogs 2009 by Time Magazine
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 19 February, 2009 to the blogs subset
An interesting list, though possibly it should be referred to as the “highest profile” rather than the “best” blogs, as there are a quite a few of the usual suspects present (though it’s good to see the Bad Astronomy blog included).
One little irk about the way Time Magazine presents their lists though is the way [...]
Does the CEO of your company have a blog?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 to the blogs subset
A list of CEOs who have blogs.
Australia’s Top 250 blogs
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 27 January, 2009 to the blogs subset
To mark Australia Day yesterday Meg Tsiamis published a special list of Australia’s Top 250 blogs in addition to updating the regular Top 100 Australian Blogs Index.
Needless to say it’s great to see disassociated.com ranks at number 71 on both lists.
In August 2007 I interviewed Meg about the Top 100 Australian Blogs Index and was [...]
Paper brings blogs to you where the web can’t
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 26 January, 2009 to the blogs subset
The Printed Blog by Joshua Karp, publishing and distributing the best blog content in print.
“Why hasn’t anyone tried to take the best content and bring it offline?” said Karp, who thinks print media is far from dying. “[For] people around the world, who need to and want to consume information, whether it be in developing [...]
SPAMVENTDOCUMENT the blog, again
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 11 August, 2008 to the blogs subset
I’ve mentioned Australian INfront founder, and web designer about Sydney, Justin Fox’s latest personal blog before, but in a blogosphere choke full of make-money-online and blogs-about-blogging … blogs, it is refreshing to read something again that is the no-strings-attached real deal.
I feel like I’ve been sitting here all these years watching the world go by, [...]
