Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Blogging widows
It is my duty as a blogger to inform my fellow bloggers that a quick search may lead them to find that a certain phrase has been used before: Jafablog has a list of blogs that talk about the subject Dan Drezner’s wife used the phrase back in January 2004, and remembering that post prompted…
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Business Week's cover: the kiss of death
As a counter to the recent Business Week cover story on blogs, Henry Copeland takes us through some examples of why it may not be such a good thing: Yesterday a friend who runs a hedge fund reminded me of the Wall Street maxim — “sell when Business Week’s cover says buy.” I’m pretty sure…
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Back in the day…
Slashdot have a pointer to the earlier examples Google’s homepage. Or even the redirect page when they moved to Google.com. Notice the initial use of exclamation! marks!, it! has! since! disappeared! I think they may have liked Yahoo! a bit too much. Ah does it bring back memories, I can’t remember the exact time, but…
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Rethinking conservatism
Dan Drezner deconstructs Andrew Sullivan’s recent article in the New Republic. Glenn Reynolds has also weighed in. The debate, especially Drezner’s thoughts, is an interesting one.
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Foreign Policy May/June
FP popped through the letterbox today, and as ever it has some quality pieces. Only some links, the website has mainly not been updated as of yet. The cover story is an essay by Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defence from 1961 to 1968 and president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981.…
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Question Time
I hope everyone will be watching Question Time at 8.30pm this evening – all three party leaders in front of a live studio audience. Should be pretty dramatic.
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What a way to go
The Guardian have a good roundup of ways humanity could be wiped out, they use Sir Martin Rees’ stuff as a basis: 1: Climate Change 2: Telomere erosion 3: Viral Pandemic 4: Terrorism 5: Nuclear war 6: Meteorite impact 7: Robots taking over 8: Cosmic ray blast from exploding star 9: Super-volcanos 10: Earth swallowed…
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A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her
So Arianna Huffington is going to try and compete with Matt Drudge in the blogosphere. Hands up who thinks a celebrity blog is a good idea? Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity…
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Argh
Yes, posts have been slow lately, just been too knackered to do much on here!
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Yeah…
Not much posting today, some interesting stuff read though. I did get around to reading Richard’s piece in Magill about the Irish blogosphere…yet more coverage for the blogs! Update: As Twenty as requested I have scanned the said article. It is in two JPEGS. First page here, second page here.
Got any book recommendations?