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Entries from July 13th, 2006

Blogs Today

July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Blogs Today · Technology

I think that the Blogs Today site is quite new, but it looks interesting. It is traditional, possibly even mandatory, for WordPress users to look down their noses a bit at a set-up which is free, very easy to use and under the ownership of a newspaper company, but it does have a lot going […]

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West Sussex schools

July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on West Sussex schools · Politics

I was going to mention this a week ago, but Richard Symonds has beaten me to it on his new blog. (One of an astonishing 27 which he has under his profile on Blogger! That is a serious habit – or would be if more than 2 of them were ever updated.) Anyway, West Sussex […]

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WordPress Spam

July 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology

Tygernet was moaning about this the other day. Actually moaning is not the right word: he was quite belligerent about it really. Anyway, I have been wondering about this for a while, because I really am not very expert in the inner workings of MySQL/php. I know the reason why a spammer would want to […]

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Chris Oxlade

July 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life

I was quite shocked and surprised to see the news in today’s Crawley Observer that Chris Oxlade is leaving Mercury FM. They say he has been ‘sacked’ or ‘axed’ although Chris hasn’t commented on it at all. I will admit that I hardly ever listen to Mercury FM and I don’t think I have ever […]

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Blogs and ‘old media’

July 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life

There has been a lot written lately about the relationship between new and old media. I have been keeping an eye on the debate but don’t feel involved: I don’t have aspirations towards being a ‘citizen journalist’ myself, or indeed any sort of journalist and I know that my readership is dwarfed by even the […]

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