What would you do if someone was leaving irritating comments on your website, and about you on other people’s websites? Imagine that blocking and ignoring them was not really working.
Incidentally, this is not about me. My comment contributors are being lovely (at the moment).
Is blogchalking useful? When some weblogs are collaborative and international (remember Eurotrash?) and some other blogs are written by expats (we have had so called GBlogs that have Aussie, Dutch, Kiwi and Irish authors, for example), is categorising a blog by the location of its author any use? Even for British blogs written by British passport-holders, the content is often not location-specific, and in fact the location of the author is irrelevant.
So why blogchalk?
Hmm. I come tenth on Google for this search, which is mildly disturbing.
I want one! (featured in an article in today’s Independent, which doesn’t seem to have been reproduced at their website)
Paris sur la mer? What do you think? Could Chichester have a beach along the bank of the Lavant? Would have to be in winter, as the Lavant is dry at the moment.
Presented for discussion: children soon to be able to watch 15 and 18 certificate films.
Sunday. A day for:
Not a day for:
guh.
Beer tonight with Bren and Greg, with sightings of Arron, Guy and Tim W.
Rodney writes brilliantly on the subject of the Best British Blog competition. And on the subject of the Speaking Toliet Ghost. No, really.
Everybody is linking to this, a list of 100 albums that, according to the compilers, you should throw away. I only own two of the albums: Heaven or Las Vegas by the Cocteau Twins, which is a very good album if not the best that they ever did (which is probably Treasure or Blue Bell Knoll – ask me tomorrow for a different answer) and Songs In A Minor by Alicia Keys, which I can honestly say is an excellent album, even if I did buy it for sentimental reasons.
I have no plans to throw either album away.
I’d say to anyone reading the list – don’t throw away your albums. I have a copy of Beverley Craven’s eponymous album, and much as I detest it now, I wouldn’t throw or give it away. It represents a time in my life when my outlook, expectations and tastes were different to the way they are now. I’m sure that 12 years from now I will detest the Amon Tobin album that I’m listening to as I type this, but I won’t throw it away. Maybe I’m just a hoarder.