Bloggers no longer exist
Joel Postman has a spot on post arguing that claiming oneself to be a blogger is now a misnomer: A blog is a tool. There is no such thing as “a blogger,” or someone who can be rationally defined by...
View ArticleMs Fits gives up blogging
One of my fave bloggers, Marieke Hardy, also known as Ms Fits from the popular blog Reasons You Will Hate Me has announced she will stop blogging to concentrate on travelling and writing a novel. As...
View ArticleTSSH’s Caz and The Hack named
Saw in my Tumblr dashboard via Something Changed that the identities behind the pseudonyms “The Hack” and “Caz” from the once very popular and particularly spiteful but now defunct blog The Spin Starts...
View ArticleMainstream media is loving Australian blogs
Even though as bloggers we are happily doing our own thing here on the internet it is always a nice bit of validation when old-media take an interest to explain aspects of blogging or introduce...
View ArticleUpgrade WordPress to avoid being bitch-slapped
I've just noticed that a friend's blog is running a very old version (2.1) of the popular self-hosted WordPress blogging software and his site has regrettably but understandably been hacked. If you...
View ArticleDon’t abandon your business blog
Of the 13 tips in the guide on How To: Write a Really Crappy Business Blog (found via John Lampard at disassociated.com) this was the one I see occur most frequently: Never post anything. The easiest...
View ArticleHold my calls, I’m too busy blogging
(found via Kottke + Something Changed) I can actually see mid-level mangers in Australia getting fired up like this about blogging in 2009. The blogosphere is hot. Seriously.
View ArticleLindsay Lohan on why she blogs
“There’s a person in here. And I have feelings too, whether it’s about politics, the person I’m seeing, the person I’m not seeing. That’s my way of connecting. I don’t want people to think that I’m...
View ArticleMeh: Australian blogging community’s reaction to JA’s ‘Good Weekend’ cover
New York blogger, protocelebrity and web entrepreneur Julia Allison whom I've previously mentioned here at The Local as well as at my other blogs (fascination or infatuation, anyone??? actually don't...
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