A post on Digg today pointed out that Google’s April Fools joke last year is now becoming a reality, as a company is laying fibre-optic cables in the sewers of Bournemouth to provide next-generation high speed internet access.

Maybe if I spent more time working on increasing my Google pagerank, fostering online friendships and general self-promotion instead of packing my posts with bad puns, the fact that I pointed the same thing out here 4 months ago might have been picked up.

Maybe…

May 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments

The widespread definition of a blog today is;

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

(From Wikipedia.)

I think it’s interesting that in the years between being an activity by a few people on the nascent World Wide Web and the mainstream role that blogs have in today’s digital landscape (depending on how you define a “blog”), the idea that a “weblog” is a log of the web seems to have been superseded by the idea of a log on the web.
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March 24th, 2008 | Web Content | No comments