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Jon on the future of blogging. I broadly agree with him about how blogging has, and likely will, develop, group blogs always had an advantage over individuals, if done well. Now that UK blogging has matured, it's unsurprising that group and media financed blogs dominate most rankings.
But that doesn't mean they're taking over, or driving smaller bloggers out. They're amplifying an audience, the audience for small personal blogs is probably bigger now than it was a few years ago, and I'd say it's likely even easier for a good individual to break in to the higher echelons if they want to.
Twitter and Facebook may reduce the number of people think-piece blogging regularly, but they help the same people build up an audience to share links with very easily.
Besides which, it's not like the top group blog in the country has particularly high standards...
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More for the comments than the main news. The difference between wanting a blog to write occasional thoughts down, and wanting to be a top or pro-blogger is actually quite significant. La Dale is out of the race for the top, but isn't going to shut the site down, just use it when he feels the need, instead of feeling the need to use it.
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I don't know if it's the outfit, the lighting, the hair or a combination of all, but I really don't like this photoset, the look really doesn't suit her.
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I've always hated the 'blame the messenger' approach, especially when it's stuff I kinda like. According to some, most of my friends should've committed multiple Columbine massacres by now given their respective combined tastes. Strangely, this hasn't happened. Nice research.
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Several different people have linked this and I finally got around to following the link. You should do the same. It would help if you've seen, at the very least, Aliens. If you haven't, you probably ought to report to a reeducation facilty (or a DVD rental facility) ASAP.
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Date: 2010-Dec-16, Thursday 22:11 (UTC)Karen Gillan
Date: 2010-Dec-16, Thursday 23:44 (UTC)Re: Karen Gillan
Date: 2010-Dec-17, Friday 00:31 (UTC)Re: Karen Gillan
Date: 2010-Dec-17, Friday 11:07 (UTC)The Shortlist is one of the most horrible misogynistic heteronormative bullshit rags you will ever see though. Ahem.
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Date: 2010-Dec-17, Friday 02:16 (UTC)Shouldn't you be busy spinning the wholesale betrayal of every campaign pledge and principle that the Liberal Democrats have ever stood for?
There must surely be no other political party in UK history which can lose so much polling support in less than 9 months. A steady and unprecedented decline from 33% in April 2010 to only 9% in December 2010. I'm giving the Guinness Book a call!
The Liberal Democrat Party have signed their own death warrant in this country. Fact.
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Date: 2010-Dec-17, Friday 16:33 (UTC)You're a moron. Fact.
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Date: 2010-Dec-17, Friday 17:15 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-Dec-17, Friday 17:19 (UTC)I'd rather a few insults from morons with lots of comments from people I like than block the people from elsewhere who arent' interested enough to navigate the arcane login system that is OpenID on LJ/DW powered sites.
Given we plan a major overhaul on the UI for off site logins, that I'm supposed to be doing a mockup design for, oh, last September, that approach may change. But ultimately, that comment was from a moron.
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Date: 2010-Dec-16, Thursday 22:00 (UTC)