Eatin’s Cheatin’ : The Backtype Plugin

I’ve recently installed a rel­at­ively new WordPress plug-​​​​in from the good folk at Backtype.

This is what it does: it scans the web, including social networks like Twitter and other blogs, for mentions of your post and draws those mentions in as comments on the post. This is a good thing in

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Mr Angry Internet Man Explains

From the Merriam Webster entry:

Main Entry: re·cid·i·vist Pronunciation: –vist Function: noun Etymology: French récidiv­iste, from récidiver to relapse, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin recidivare, from Latin recidivus recur­ring, from recidere to fall back, from re– + cadere to fall

Earlier this evening, I made what some might describe as an immod­erate comment

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Starting a Blog

It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have more talent than me and have taken the time.

…with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is cer­tainly the easiest place to start, much

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About this New Theme

[This post is rather obvi­ously out-​​​​of-​​​​date.]

The most radical change you’ll see if you get to the site, rather than read it on RSS, is that it’s single-​​​​column. That cuts out a lot of the stuff that was here before, e.g.:

recent comments blogroll widgets

So to tackle those:

Recent Comments: To be honest, I write this

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At Mortlake Station

First day back to work. Thanks, world, for the 1000+ emails in my absence. Still, food for thought on the way:

I confess, I was totally taken in by this for a second. I thought, “Wow, there’s a course about blogging at our local college. That’s amazing.”

Of course, I was wrong. Because bloggers are sad, buck-​​​​toothed losers

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Bye, Jason… and F*ck You

I am obvi­ously speaking in an out of work capacity here. And rather later than is fash­ion­able in the blogging world — Calacanis’ announce­ment that he’s giving up blogging was nearly two weeks ago.

At work, we paid Jason Calacanis £5000 to come to London and speak at a con­fer­ence last year. From reading

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