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:: Thursday, January 02, 2003 ::

I came across this site in today’s Guardian. Well, OK, Guardian online, as you might have guessed as I’ve linked to it already today. Who pays for newspapers these days anyway? It’s all online for free and the Guardian (who have the best technology section (G2 – Thursdays – Online)) like to spend huge miles of column inches, or screen inches, or words as counted by MS-Word word count, or whatever there going to call it, on raving about how all their rivals are slowly resorting to charging for content and they aren’t. Hurrah! That puts off me paying for online content for a little longer.
Anyway, that site linked above is that of one Clay Shirky. The Guardian says: “Shirky goes to the code-face and comes back with sensible thoughts about how people actually use technology, all the while avoiding the techno-determinism and the second hand gonzo-isms of the ClueTrain posse.” This pretentious gabble was however enough to temp me to look at the site and it is pretty interesting. Articles I’d particularly like to share are:
Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing, which explains why we spend all of our time doing this. Although there’s no mention of why we do it in work time – on that note I notice Grom has also returned from the Christmas, checked all of his regular sources and gone berserk!
Half the World – nice to see a stupid (and probably totally made up) statistic put under the spot light.
And finally, the effects of the British Empire on the use of English on the net – or should that be the effects of the British Empire and the use of American on the net?

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