Can bloggers fill the void after Bill Gates?

Microsoft Blogger Steve Clayton asks : Can bloggers fill the void after Bill Gates?

Confirmation in the post today…

From small acorns – my first academic work in 20+ years turns out OK!

Want!!!

Quite simply – I want one (or both) or these. Classic Lacoste design. From the marvellous Colette.fr (warning too mush flash on that site!).

Please remove prior to putting in Microwave…

You’ve gotta love this – I purchased some blades for my razor today, and they came bundled with some shaving gel – and there I was, just about to cook up a storm and I caught sight of the warning!

Just get on with it!

Please, just get on with it!

I passed…

I just found out my results from my Open University efforts. I took a management course earlier this year as a kick off for a return to higher education, I enjoyed the coursework – and I’m really pleased to get the OU’s understated ‘achieved’ mark.

I’ll be starting the next modules later this year – and continuing through to a degree.

McCain Lies about time in Vietnam – surely not?

‘When John McCain was my captive’ – Vietnam prison governor speaks out

Imagine a great new album of electronica every day!

Bleepshow is the kind of thing I would like to put together, but Pete Cooper has done  it much better than I would – although I may not have focused on Electronic music quite so much.

Bleepshow is a daily mix of electronic music that you can download, listen to online, podcatch and I’m sure some other stuff too technical for me.

Listening to #202 has made me realise I need to do some more DJ mixes. I wonder if Pete has got a description of his equipment rig up there, I’d like to find out how he puts this together.

Todays bleepshow is #202 – and you should listen to it immediately, if only to hear the great tracks from The Korvstoppers and Voob.

Do we really need critics and reviewers any more?

Interesting article in the Guardian by Mark Lawson this morning about publicists trying to release movies, books and TV shows without critics even seeing them – to save potential bad reviews.

It seems that increasingly the press are only getting to see movies at the very first public screenings (Friday afternoon on the day of release), because the film distributors and publicists are stopping newspaper reviewers seeing the film before the public.

The whole thing got me thinking a bit – does anyone really need the press reviews to judge whether to see a film or buy a book or not?  Certainly – if I see a trailer for a film and it looks OK, I’ll go and see it regardless of what the newspaper reviewers say. More than often, I’ll find out about a film release from a buzz on the ‘net and I might even do a quick search for comments made across the hundreds of blogs and websites that specialise in movies.

In fact – that’s the whole point, the web has democratised the process so much that press reviews have become negligible in their influence, sites like Metacritic have sprung up to aggregate the average reviews and tell us what a much wider base of people think about a film or book or whatever.

That just leaves the press reviewers like Anton Ego from Ratatouille – found out for the snobbish, elitist club members that they are.

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