Year: 2005

Just for Nick or Tim a great use for that redundant sledge hammer – get typing. Would be brilliant at the fair – see who can type The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog Boing Boing: Sledgehammer keyboard

Two really excellent books on what is involved with blogging, both free, and very readable. Seth Godwin’s is really good (a 26page pdf download for the paper junkies). Interestingly he has given up publishing ‘real’ books due to the inordinate time delays from writing to it getting on the shelves. Also a great book (slightly […]

Article on the growth of blogging RSS feeds and social software (yep – all the stuff I’m interested in) I like this quote “Technology has given consumers an option to tune businesses out, and tune each other in, said Forrester research director Chris Charron in a statement. On the flip side, technology has given businesses […]

An interesting article that shows reading blogs is more popular with journalists than the public “Interestingly it is the journalists—not their readers—that are turning to blogs in record numbers. While the Euro RSCG Magnet study shows that more than half (51%) of journalists use Weblogs regularly—with 28% relying on them for day-to-day reporting, a recent […]

A first look at the rate of religiosity in a country and its crime rate, those bible thumpers are not going to like this at all. “the United States is the only prosperous first world nation to retain rates of religiosity otherwise limited to the second and third worlds” and “the U.S. is the only […]

Hereis a great list for anyone trying to guess which US based retailer Tesco might be thinking of buying. A quick look reveals that they are ina bit of a mess, Albertsons have put them selfs up for sale and Winn-dixie are in chapter 11. Bit hard to believe that Tesco want to join the […]