On The Third Hand

Tuesday, 26 Feb

It's a blogosphere day (part II) [permalink]

• Says something about Mr Ashcroft... I just got hit with a google for "John Ashcroft, civilized". I went, being a bit curious, and typed that phrase into Google. I am the only link that comes up.
• Sometimes writing is a craft, and sometimes it is an art.
• What he said! I think David Carr (Samizdata - London) and I agree on gun control. "We already have a right to bear arms, bestowed upon us by our ancient common law heritage and exercisable by the mere act of being born. All the government has done is to deprive us of it."
• Joanne Jacob's idea of "freeblog" sent me searching to see if I could find any (English language) blogs from Thailand. (Thai means free -- so Thailand is the other 'land of the free' ). I only found two. Adieu.nu is a Canadian expat living in Thailand -- he's got a nicely crafted piece on Sept 11 -- he was on a plane travelling to Vancouver when the attacks were made. Khaosan Rd is done by a Thai student of photography (and is well worth a look).
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It's a blogosphere day [permalink]

Joanne Jacobs has suggested 'freeblog' as an alternative to 'warblog'. Rand Simberg (likes it) and Justin Slotman (wrote her to explain why he likes 'warblog)' have weighed in.

Being a dedicated contrarian (hey... this blog is titled "On The Third Hand), I have my own suggestion. Polblog. Pol can be short for political, or politic, or even police (we'll fact-check yer arse, we will). I especially like it because the root word goes back to the word for 'citizen'.

[update] Someone suggested "poliblog" to Joanne. I agree with her; that is just too cute. It's why I dropped the 'i'. I still like "polblog".
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oops link mess up (my fault)... if you are looking for my comments on Stephanie, they are here. Sorry!

Blogspot irritation [permalink]

I haven't had that much time to get online today, and the few times I did, it seems blogspot was not responding. I have a feeling that all the articles in major publications lately about blogs are giving blogspot a severe case of bandwidth woes.[link via InstaPundit]

It might help if those of you who keep a week's worth of posts on your blog's front page swap it to a couple of days and pass the suggestion along. I've noticed some blogs are loading more than one megabyte -- of text (I turn pictures off sometimes). That's a bit large!

Any readers you have who are on modems will love you for making the page smaller. I don't know about you guys, but I've got several readers coming from places where high bandwidth access is not available. Even if you don't care if blogspot chokes, have pity on those who are waiting... and waiting... and waiting... for your page to load!
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