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Archive of posts filed under the blogging category.
Finnish pinball blog
Pinball.fi is now open.
Sadly, there hasn’t been exactly an avalanche of new games in Helsinki.
Meaningless indeed
Meaningless t-shirts: for imaginative takedowns on suboptimal shirt designs.
Well, there'll be at least 114 parts to it
Blogging the periodic table, by Sam Kean. Unfortunately at Slate, which is so deeply penetrated by advertisements as to be hard to read.
Upgrading to 500, and further once the target is achieved
www.thingsiwoulddotobangscarlettjohansson.com.
Some are unpleasant indeed.
It's a niche, but a very profitable niche
Cakewrecks is a blog that concentrates on the moments “when professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong”.
A topic that would seem almost instantaenously exhausted.
Defying expectations, the author has kept the images of baking disasters coming, and even turned out a book out of the blog.
Blogs of the Year
Some to check out, some to keep on reading and some to agree on being overrated.
Hacking reality
hackedirl contains remixes of reality, most entries involving traffic signs.
Meat the makers
menwithmeatnames.com proves that there’s no topic a blog couldn’t cover.
One of the originals
SchizoBlog calls it quits, after more than seven years of service.
Reinvigoration through projects
Reinvigorated programmer keeps on prodding me to grab the keyboard and start coding. Something. Anything.
Katuoja 2.0
Katuoja has moved.
Losing a couple of years worth of comments
Haloscan calls it quits, and the upgrade costs 12$ annually.
On one hand that’s a trivial price to pay.
On the other the comments are not visible in the modern side of the blog (i.e. this instance that runs wordpress) anyway.
Hence, consider them gone in a couple of weeks.
Into the second decade
Boingboing turns ten, with 55000 posts under its belt.
Time to move on?
Blogilista.fi seems to be on the verge of a permanent breakdown. Either the fashionbloggers are crowding the system, or there’s something seriously wrong in the database.
Whatever the reason, the delays and lag are rather terrible.
It’s getting close to the point where the appropriate response is to go through the worthwhile set of subscribed-to blogs and pick up their feeds in a reader.
Top 30, annual report
The top 30 list of blogs in Fimoculous bears only a few familiar names.
Amongst the listed are several that bear further investigation.
Demi Moore threatens Boing Boing with a lawsuit
Sadly, one of the most surreal titles of the year is not a graceless play with words: the minions of the hasbeen-ish actress have indeed initiated legal action towards the one of the biggest blogs in the net.
The reason: blowing the whistle on image manipulation.
The verdict: not guilty. That is, unless publishing the original and altered image side by side is considered to be a crime.
Blogs, vintage 2009
Bygonebureau’s list contains a few familiar faces and plenty of things to check out. All blogs that got started in 2009.
One more Helsinki bloggers christmas party missed
Meh.
Three christmas parties this year, and two of them fall on the same evening.
Protecting the Finnish language
Suomensuojelija isn’t, despite its patriotic name, nothing more than a blog about the finnish language, and saving it from careless use.
Humble beginnings
Kasa collects the first entries of finnish blogs.
Mine is still available in its original form as well as here in wordpress.
But for those with a 2.3 second attention span, here’s the whole first entry from 29.3.2004:
And so it begins.
Indeed. Yet another blog among the uncounted thousands in the web already. This is just a trial run for an unspecified amount of time whether I keep having semi-interesting things to say.
No idea what this’ll cover. Things I’m interested in. Or pissed off at. Both, at the same time, sometimes. If people are covered, this will be under cover of some anonymity to protect the innocent, and in best possible taste, of course.
FAIL nation
The sudden appearance of FAIL nation continues the flow of books-turned-to-blogs. Though here the path is well-trodden already by the first LOLcat book published by the same company.
Item not as described: Free is a Four-letter Word: how Craigslist appearances can deceive.
