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In response to the recent furore around service downtime, Twitter have responded with a new "Status" blog where you can find the latest information on whether the services is up and what’s the progress dealing with any issues.
Luckily the blog is relying on Tumblr and not Twitter 🙂
I have a sore back.
After some consideration of the matter, I believe that the only possible cause of the soreness is my trusty RSS Reader FeedDemon.
Now, it’s not FeedDemon’s fault, but the number of times, in any given review of RSS feeds, I have to bend over and pick names off the floor is escalating beyond belief.
I am considering various antidotes to the queasy, nausea I feel reading these blog posts, some medicinal and some physical.
I hope that when I’m rich and famous I don’t start boring people to death with intros like:
"I had breakfast with the man from the moon about sixteen weeks ago…"
By all means bore us to death with your post – god knows I do it all the time – but stop the name dropping and get to the point.
Update:
Just to clarify this post isn’t about blogging about people you meet. No. This concerns framing a post as though the VIP (whatever) in question is central to the post when in fact it’s name dropping. These writers are typically too "cool" to write: "Wow I met X, I’ve always admired her and it’s true they look taller on TV". The name dropper is far too sophisticated for that. The drop actually adds nothing to the post. It’s for effect, whatever. That’s what this post is about.
The Irish Times….
One of the Irish Times’ triumvirate of journalist bloggers, Shane Hegarty has announced he’s putting his “Present Tense” blog on ice for a while. (Interesting (to me anyway) there are over 70 comments on the post so far..). Then there were (as far as I know) two active official Irish Times blogs:
[Other Irish Times related blogs: John Collins, Karlin Lillington, John Butler]
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Newstalk 106….
In Irish Times (kind of) related news, Karlin Lillington has decided to step down from the Technology slot on Newstalk 106 but will be focusing her energies on a new podcast series. [I assume Mr. Joe Drumgoole is remaining in situ.]
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Sunday Business Post
I didn’t know Nadine O’Regan from the Sunday Business Post had a blog.
[Other related blogs: Adrian Weckler]
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Filed under “Other Irish media-related blogs I know”:
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So what other ones am I missing?
In the spirit of Irish blog-operation… do please feel free to add any more local media blogs 🙂
UPDATE:
Cian GInty passed along a useful list he pulled together here.
Murphy's Law 