The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in blogging on May 6th, 2008
The most popular finnish blog aggregator got a major update today.
Not everything seems to have gone perfectly, as the tags for this very blog now read as follows:
elämänkatsomus filosofia huumori mies nainen parisuhde sarkasmi seksi vedonlyönti äijyys
Which is not exactly a replica of what the list used to contain.
And I miss the “check […]
Posted in blogging, gadgets, interactive fiction, movies on May 6th, 2008
Been a while since I last advertised new things that got dropped into the “read often”-pile:
Roger Ebert’s movie blog.
Planet IF - a very convenient aggregator for interactive fiction related blogs (and news sites).
Next Big Future - things that shape the next decades, if not centuries. Mainly technology-oriented.
Still haven’t got an […]
Bought my first ever book written by an author (or a duo of them, in this case, apparently).
Pasa and Atpo, the comprehensively pissed-off guys behind Eniten Vituttaa Kaikki have put together 240-ish pages on things that are Just Wrong and righteously anger the decent folks.
At less than ten euros the book […]
Posted in blogging on Apr 21st, 2008
The analysis series of Guardian’s list of top 50 blogs concludes here. Hopefully the fifth batch might bring some fresh faces.
The F-Word
The tagline, Contemporary UK Feminism, proves it - this is not a blog I was meant to read.
Jonny B’s private secret diary
Haircut (including a healthy relationship with barnyard animals) from UK. […]
Posted in blogging on Apr 19th, 2008
The analysis of the top 50 blogs has now reached its penultimate part. Let’s see whether the entries 31-40 bring any new additions to the regularly read blogs.
Gapingvoid
Surreal, yet very topical business cartoons. Read this semi-regularly like two hundred years ago, might have to pick it up again. At least […]
Posted in blogging on Apr 12th, 2008
The mid-point of the top 50. Thus far the pickings have been rather meager, let’s see what happens with the third set…
Students for a Free Tibet
Worthy cause. Haven’t read.
Jezebel
Jezebel appears to be by women, for women. I’ll manage to do without.
Gigazine
In Japanese. Might be interesting, but in […]
Posted in blogging on Apr 9th, 2008
Took a while before managed to carve out the second part of this epic five-post analysis of the top 50 blogs
DRUDGE REPORT
Yeah, I’ve browsed this a couple of times. Ugly layout, dirt-digging journalism. I can so give this one a miss. Even though they probably hit jackpot annually with some big story, […]
Guardian has picked top fifty blogs across the whole spectrum.
Some on the list are familiar and expected, some come out of the left field utterly.
The Huffington Post
The top dog is a collectively written political blog. Which I have never laid eyes on before.
boingboing
The eclectic selection of topics covered by boingboing […]
As lawsuits go, the charges brought by Alexis Kouros against Phil Schwartzmann seems to be counted amongst the futile.
I’m so rooting for the defendant here. And so should you.
Two blogs I’ve been a fan since encountering them are about to transform themselves into books.
Strangemaps has published close to 250 weird maps during its one and a half years of existence. Only an initial announcement of the blog to be has been published thus far, with no mention of a date. […]
Wired has posted a nifty visualization what happens to a blog entry after it is published.
The tally of missing issues of said magazine in Finland is now two: neither the december nor january issues have yet been sighted in the shops. There is no official explanation, just speculation of a shipment […]
Posted in blogging, naked link on Jan 27th, 2008
Seems that my choice of blogging engine wasn’t too far off the mark: Wordpress just landed 29.5 million dollars in their second funding round.
Posted in blogging, humor, links, politics, social networks on Jan 19th, 2008
A couple of blogs that have crossed the event horizon lately:
Tiellä Valkoiseen Taloon, a finnish blog on the US election (written by Suomen Kuvalehti).
Aasiakas, documenting encounters with sub-optimal and sub-human customers.
The Daily WTF, documenting encounters with sub-optimal code and writers of such.
Kylttiblogi, misprinted signs (mainly finnish).
Inside Facebook, or actually: outside, looking in.
Two unofficial […]