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Google Blog Search

Yes, it’s definitely hard to see the wood for the trees sometimes, but of course the most powerful way of establishing patterns of readership and finding good content is through good people such as yourself and The Manchizzle putting together collections of relevant links around a particular locality or topic.

To use an academic analogy, I suppose Technorati offers a Library Catalogue while individual blogs & communities of blogs offer more refined and immediately useful course reading lists! Both, I suppose, have their uses.

Comment Posted By newfred On 17.11.2006 @ 19:04

My immediate response is sympathy for your point, because MySpace certainly is full of a big lot of crap. But there is a danger of being too snobbish… when I started blogging I wrote the same self-indulgent rubbish and it’s only by growing up and continuing to find and read other blogs (for which technorati remains a great tool) that I feel I have made modest improvements.

Furthermore, I think there’s a real problem of elitism in blogging, for something that claims to be such a democratic force: this probably isn’t true of any Mancunian blogs, but on a global level sites like kottke.org, plasticbag.org, and lots of the other ’showpiece’ blogs which have been around which year dot, to my mind, generate massively more traffic than their content really justifies.

Comment Posted By newfred On 17.11.2006 @ 12:50

I hear voices

I’ve definitely heard voices in the past and have never thought anything of it. There was a period of a few years during my adolescence when I would hear voices every night just before going to sleep; I always thought of them as auditory hallucinations working through all the things you’d heard during the day in an irrational, dream-like way.

These days I find it happens much more rarely.

Comment Posted By Newfred On 18.09.2006 @ 13:02

First annual Manchester Blog Awards

Great to see that this is taking off and people are getting involved. Should be a really good way of bringing all the Manchester blogs to the masses!

Comment Posted By Newfred On 12.09.2006 @ 01:18

I am Tony Parrish

@Stephen: I agree with you. I think the ethics of these situations come down to: 1) substantiation and 2) public interest.

I can’t believe that the people involved in the Liverpool story can be making such direct accusations, apparently from within the council, without there being truth in them. Furthermore, if the author/s are in a bureaucracy like a city council they will know exactly the legal risks they are taking regarding defamation.

I think a strong argument has to be made for public interest here too — while making random accusations about people’s personal life doesn’t really benefit anyone, publicising damaging information about an elected council — which should be in the public domain anyway — is plainly to the public good (providing it’s correct — which I’m sure will be settled in the courts).

Comment Posted By Newfred On 31.08.2006 @ 11:54

Gorton girls know all the words to songs by Chaka Khan

Quite the most informative post I’ve read for some time — there’s no way I would have ever researched where that stencil comes from! Although this knowledge possibly, though not necessarily, scuppers my romantic notion that genuine Gorton girls were going around graffitiing material of high wit and literary calibre.

Comment Posted By Newfred On 16.07.2006 @ 03:37

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