February 23, 2006

Not a bad article, except for… 1) straw-man argument – blogs are doomed to failure becausethey can never replace big media! Who says we want to replace the FinancialTimes? The argument is rubbish because the premise doesn’t hold. 2) bizarre logic – we should be even more suspicious “because no-one is evenpretending to get rich”,…

Nonsense never dies. On the Internet that’s doubly true as – far from being more ephemeral as so many think – it doesn’t sink to the bottom and die, but hangs around in search engines and obscure blogs, waiting to be dredged up. You may remember John Loftus, who claims to know more intelligence secrets…

Interesting blog on piracy and such, here. One to go next to Carlos in my “You’re further right than Genghis Khan, but we can agree on at least one thing” file. BTW, anyone who reads down to the systempunkt-rockin’ map of Nigerian oil infrastructure can certainly pride themselves on having breached the Terrorism Act by…

Is it me or are fake policemen everywhere? (now there’s a paranoid lede if ever there was one) Yesterday kicked off when 10 men dressed and equipped as the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior Commandos (in that wonderfully Soviet way of speaking they have) paid a call on a mosque where two 9th century Shia…

…It’s a tired old blogosphere cliche to link to Fafblog, but this is genius. It’s too good to quote piecemeal.