http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H60kpWhyeZc Whenever I hear the inimitable Stephen Fry talk there's usually a cord struck deep within. This brief talk about the Irish language and Ros na Rún to The Phil, (December 7th, 2010) is no exception. "One can't deny the terrible rolling tide of English" Is English (or Chinese) destined to become the universal "common" or … Continue reading The Terrible Rolling Tide Of English
Nick Carr asks "Who killed the blogoshpere?". In an excellently constructed piece he laments the blogosphere and compares it to Ham Radio's which, oddly enough, while once being the domain of the über geek back in the day, still have over 3 million registered operational users, which is double what Technorati believe is the current … Continue reading The buzz has left blogging. Wah wah, f’n wah…
Note: April 4th 2017 - The problems outlined in this post become even more of an issue since the introduction of more top level domains such as .audio, .blog, .biz. Also, rather depressingly, 10 years after since I wrote the original article and America is still the #1 source of spam according to Spamhaus. Lifehacker … Continue reading Ostracize the Xenophobes – AmericaNet
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