As I “mentioned earlier”:https://blog.org/archives/cat_weblogs.html#000766, the people behind Moveable Type (and many of the other competitors to Blogger) are failing to offer real choice to the low-end weblogger because they lack a free hosted option. Now Blogger has upped the ante by dropping the remaining fees that were charged to Blogger Pro users and making those features available to all Blogger users. I’m guessing it’s gearing up to face the competition from “AOL”:https://blog.org/archives/cat_weblogs.html#000813.

It must be said that the “additional features”:http://new.blogger.com/feature_giveaway/announcement.pyra offered in Blogger Pro are nothing to write home about and MT (which powers this weblog) still leaves Blogger well behind in the features race…

I have been going through the list of sites which visitors found this blog through and found some interesting results.

Whatis? is a handy dictionary of technology terms and a few weeks back it apparently nominated this weblog as one of its “Favorite Technology Blogs“. Thank you whoever put me on that list and I hope visitors find what they are looking for.

Also thanks to Kevin Morris at Becta for putting this weblog on a list of good weblogs for UK Online centres.

It’s nice to get visitors from French and Italian weblogs, and I’m gratified at the people from around the world including Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia who have written in to ask to see some of the papers I have written.

On a lighter note, I noticed a few people coming from “http://www.web-shite.co.uk/” (now Roraz.com) which seems to specialise in linking to sites that are either gross or pornographic. I couldn’t figure out why until I noticed this entry for bl0g.org: “The mother of porn blog/user intergration/dirty/filthy/websites on the net. Either that or someone seriously needs to get a girlfriend.” Yes it’s pretty much as described and no it’s nothing to do with me! The difference one letter can make…

P.S. Someone recently wrote me to say that he read my weblog wasn’t going to be updated after Nov 2002. Has anyone read anything similar and if you have could you let me know where so I can correct that impression?of scary cast moviesapphic daily moviesmovies dbz hentaifree movies sex amaturehentai free porn anime moviessex movies free dildoporn fat free moviesgalleries hentai movie freeediting movie software freefree movies sucking matureinterrassisch Sybian MPEGsHahnerei interrassisch Geschlechtporn Spione Völlig Cartoonhentai Pissing Mädchenfucking moms Duaghtersverspritzend Anker Frauenpics bbw JapanischFrauen nackt 70 über Reifesexo interrassisch gratis de VideosTarzan Comic-Pornoscheißend GayMILF dp InterrassischKostenlos Lesben fuckingGroße Milch verspritzend TittenPapas teches Tochter Dick Mompuissy BehaarteBehaarte Kitzler teenrimming anal MädchenBlume Tucci interrassisch GeschlechtNacked Lesben

“TypePad”:http://www.typepad.com/ (the all singing all dancing hosted weblog service I mentioned here which comes from the same company that does my weblog software) has now launched and costs $4.95 to $14.95 a month. Looks like Blogger (which has a free option and offers free hosting through “Blogspot”:http://blogspot.com/) gets to keep its market share.

Can’t fault them for trying to tap the “high end” blogger customer though – they have to get money somehow! I would rather buy it outright when Moveable Type Pro becomes available – though that depends how they price it…movie film dialogue scriptsmovie free porngirl next door movieguidelines ratings movieicon gifs moviewallpaper poster moviemovie poster running matessoundtrack romeo juliet moviemovie stripslut movie teacheroutstanding miss 2006 teenmodels teen abercrombieaj sex tapeanalysis alchemistfree porn beastiality 100alex teensex video blogs adult amatuerblogs porn amature Map

Dr Duncan Watts a social network scholar who I blogged earlier appearing on the radio in the US back in June has turned up on the excellent Thinking Allowed programme on Radio 4. He’s flogging his book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. If you listen in you can also take part in a little psychological experiment…for credit loans 125 home fairair canada cards miles creditpower uniom alabama creditaccept accept verification id credit cardcredits pirates end after worldscredit approved cards 100adult acreditation educationand loans adverse mortgages credit Map

When someone quotes you a figure for the number of weblogs there are around, you should mentally be subtracting at least a third to account for weblogs that are no longer active – at least according to figures from the NITLE blog census discussed once again by blogcount. I would expect this proportion to rise somewhat over time – at the moment I imagine the weblog phenomenon is still growing fast enough that a large number of users are new ones. If they become disenchanted and the rate of new entries begins to fall the proportion of “live” weblogs to dead ones may fall.
Thanks to Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka weblog for the link

Good to have more hard figures and particularly useful to have demographics. It’s interesting that the writer at Cyberatlas spins the story to make them seem more democratic. If it was me I would have used the same figures but said something like, “despite receiving quite a bit of media attention, only two percent of people who are online have created weblogs [does this include ones that are no longer active?] and these are heavily skewed towards a wealthy demographic – almost half have a household income greater than $60,000. According to this census report US median income in 2001 was $42,000.”

I was surprised that only 4 percent of the Internet-using population reads blogs, but if you consider that they tend to contain 1) personal stuff aimed at a circle of friends and family 2) political stuff at a level of detail most people don’t need or 3) technology-related stuff at a level of detail most people don’t need it becomes less surprising.

Voxpolitics informed me that, “the blogging meeting on Monday has had a time change due to problems with parliamentary business. It will now happen from 7pm – 9pm, and we will probably be in the Grand Committee Room.”

You mean there are parliamentary things more important than a meeting about weblogs?

I just came across a reference to a Slate article about the author of “Where is Raed”. The Slate writer writes, “How do I know Baghdad’s famous blogger exists? He worked for me“. It seems I was wrong to doubt his existence or assume he was some kind of stooge of one side or the other.peeing Jeans ihre Mädchenalte Oma FettChunky ass ReifeGeile fuck teens Omaspenatration AsiatenFett Hausfrauen geilemanga Hentai SakuraBrustwarzen laktierenden Frauentranny sex Kostenlos fucking ts Videound peeing pee der mit Frauen schockierenden Öffentlichkeit pissing in girlringtone alltel callerpoly wireless billed 14 receive ringtoneringtone free polyphonic usa nokia 3560ringtones 8525 makeforum 8830 ringtoneamerican ringtone idolamc 30 barringtonacid reign ringtones Map

UK-based webloggers should know that the VoxPolitics crowd are doing a seminar:

Can Weblogs Change Politics?

14th July, 5:30 – 7.00pm
Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament (room tbc)
Drinks and Food Provided

Speakers
Steven Clift, e-democracy expert
Stephen Pollard, Blogging Journalist,
Pernille Rudlin, Mobile expert
Tom Watson MP, Blogging MP
James Crabtree, Chair

Dunno if I can make it myself but I expect the usual suspects will turn up and I will be interested to read what comes out of it. I do hope it won’t turn into a “aren’t weblogs wonderful” love-in..sprint ringtone sanyo 3g free5500 ringtone sanyoringtones 6340ifree nokia 6360 ringtoneblackberry free ringtone 7250download 8900 audiovox ringtone93 ringtone till infinityjobs warrington manager payable accounts in Map

He notes that the decisions AOL makes about how to implement weblogging will be critical to the future path of the medium. Jeff Jarvis has more details about how the product currently looks, but the reaction of a team of seasoned webloggers who were allowed a sneak peak was that it “doesn’t suck”.

Shirky suggests in passing that the kind of interconnection between people’s weblogs that software like LiveJournal encourages makes LJ more popular but also more insular. There might be something to that – if because of the tools available you are more aware of your audience of close contacts you may write more for them and less for the wider public…

Anyway, AOL Journal is due to “ship” in the fall.