Not the “normal” type of blog - it’s a sing-along! But absolutely hilarious.
Act I and Act II are now up, and Act III is due up tomorrow. And they will all vanish for good on July 20th.
So go watch now!
UPDATE: Act III is up.

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This video is 15-odd minutes long, but very much worth watching. It is a fantastic evaluation of why and how blogging, and the entire internet, works and is rising in popularity. It also explains why lolcats
exist.
If you only watch one video online today, make it this one.

via benhuh!com

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Apparently:

A voluntary code of conduct for bloggers and internet commentators is supported by almost half of all internet users, a survey has claimed.
The researchers said 46 per cent of web users believe bloggers should agree to a set of guidelines which reflected the laws on defamation, intellectual property rights and incitement. (The Telegraph)

First of all: [...]

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Yesterday I bought myself a Wii.
Such fun!
And far more involving than ‘normal’ video game consoles, sicne you have to move with the game and there is an obvious link between what you do and what happens in the game, rather than just button-bashing.
The main downside is that my right arm is now hurting after several [...]

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Back in January on my own blog, I talked about an e-mail that my educational institution had sent round about potential problems with blogging. Employers can (and according to this e-mail do) find out about blogs, and this can harm employability.
To be honest, I wasn’t overly convinced, and thought that there might be scaremongering:
[Blogging's] a [...]

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A quick note to those who liveblogged the budget.
Please, please, please, type down the page. It is really annoying having to scroll down the page and then back up again.
And use time-stamps as well.

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Civil Service blogging is dead. The Civil Serf blog has closed down, presumably either because her identity was discovered and it was the choice of the blog or the job, or she thought that her was likely to be discovered. Maybe the guess that she worked in Department for Work and Pensions was too close [...]

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Consider the evidence: first they publish Janet Street Porter’s absurd diatribe against blogs, in which she asks us all to “Blog Off”. And now they’ve redesigned their website - and cut all the links to articles. As Matt Wardman writes:
I really, REALLY, REALLY hope I’m wrong, but it looks as though the redesign of the [...]

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XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Well, there’s definitely more than two results on google for “died in a blogging accident” now!

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