A list of some of the world’s best design blogs

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 18 December, 2009 to the design and art subset

A list of 50 of the world’s best design blogs put together by Times Online writer Lynne Robinson.

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A list of some of the best Australian made design websites

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 to the design and art subset

A list of some of Australia’s best design sites compiled by Australian Edge.
The Australian INfront is conspicuous by absence from this collection.

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Blog comments are a lifestyle choice

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 9 April, 2009 to the comment subset

I’ve never bought into the argument that a blog must offer a commenting facility in order to be considered a blog, it’s something that is down to the author of the blog, and like anything it’s different strokes for different folks:
Some people do better in collaborative, challenging environments. Others prefer to work in peace and [...]

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I think, therefore I comment, I think…

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 18 March, 2009 to the comment subset

Armin comes down hard on pointless and abusive comments, and good on him.
Like any person who runs a blog, I enjoy seeing the comment counts rise to 50, 70, 100 and more, but the truth is that no more than a quarter of those comments are worth reading. The main trend in comments is to [...]

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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

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Presenting the Unbook: a book that updates itself

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 5 March, 2009 to the technology subset

Possibly an Unbook could be thought of as a blog that also appears in print.
An unbook is released in versions. As in open source software, version 1.0 of an unbook is a significant milestone, indicating that it is stable and reliable enough for use by the general public. The significance of a new release is [...]

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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…

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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 [...]

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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.

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100% Adsense doesn’t make sense in the blog business

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 11 February, 2009 to the comment subset

A great response from Kottke to Dan Lyons’ (aka Fake Steve Jobs) assertion that relying on Google Adsense alone is no way to make a living from blogging.
As businesses go, blogging is a lot like shining shoes. There are going to be very few folks who own chains of shoe shining places which make a [...]

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