Comments on: Episode 15 – 1st January 2010 – New Years Awards!

By: Jack of Kent

Jack of Kent — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:20:55 +0000

Markuze?

You mean, as in the former Man City manager? Wow. That sacking had a bad effect on him…

By: Tom Morris

Tom Morris — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:01:11 +0000

Yay! That’s some good kookery. The USENET kooks never really die, they just find new ways to inflict their lunacy on the world. Nostradamus, the Time Cube, BORK BORK BORK!! etc.

By: Martyn Norris

Martyn Norris — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:47:03 +0000

“Marc, January 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm | Permalink
A correction: the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a bunch of Norwegians, not a bunch of Swedes.”

Yeah, sorry about that

By: Jonathan Rothwell

Jonathan Rothwell — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:42:08 +0000

Oh, of course.

Or, to give “him” (or “it”) his correct name… Dennis Markuze.

By: Dr*T

Dr*T — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:27:02 +0000

In fact a google search for “now listen to this arrogant puffed up son of a bitch” shows the spammer/bot is quite prolific, with about 644 entries.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22now+listen+to+this+arrogant+puffed+up+son+of+a+bitch%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

By: Dr*T

Dr*T — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:23:19 +0000

Mr Rothwell, *I* claim the £5. ‘Tis David Mabus.

http://skippytheskeptic.blogspot.com/2008/05/who-hell-is-david-mabus.html

By: Jonathan Rothwell

Jonathan Rothwell — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:53:56 +0000

@atheismisdead: You are John Kwok, Ray Comfort or Stewart Cowan and I claim my £5.

(Actually… nah. Stewart Cowan’s English is better.)

By: atheismisdead

atheismisdead — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:46:42 +0000

the atheist sins not only against God, but also against man…

Atheist:

have you for but a moment considered that you have adopted a position against 98% of the human race, both past and present?

do you think you are RIGHT and they are all WRONG?

WRONG

now listen to this arrogant puffed up son of a bitch….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilWM7jIEN_k

little scientist geek who would try to usurp God Himself!!!

VISIT:

http://isgodimaginary.com/forum/index.php/topic,40909.0.html

you really need to add comment moderation to your blasphemy…

By: Zeno

Zeno — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:54:43 +0000

I would like to thank my mother, my wife, the four cats, , and all those who voted for me…, …

Seriously, it was completely unexpected and thanks to all at the Pod Delusion for great podcasts!

By: And she’s back…. | Vagina Dentata

And she’s back…. | Vagina Dentata — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:53:31 +0000

[...] not only because it is a fellow guest blogger/Podder on the Lay Scientist, but because it named me No.2 Best blogs of 2009 thanks to the infatigable Crispian [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:30:32 +0000

A correction: the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a bunch of Norwegians, not a bunch of Swedes.

By: Petra Boynton

Petra Boynton — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:48:35 +0000

Many thanks for the mention, and congratulations to all those in the Top 10. Like JoK I’ve written a short blog about this http://www.drpetra.co.uk/blog/new-year-honours.

Perhaps we can all consider ways to further discuss the question of what makes good blogging – particularly with a view to thinking about what outcomes we’d like to achieve? And how we’d like to measure those?

Thanks again and a Happy New Year!

By: Jack of Kent

Jack of Kent — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:38:07 +0000

Gosh!

For my personal and subjective take on what good blogging, I have done a blogpost here: http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-good-blogging.html

By: Podblack

Podblack — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:02:06 +0000

WAHHHH I got a mention, thanks so much!!

By: Tom Morris

Tom Morris — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:26:07 +0000

Pod Delusion and Social Media collide! Eek! There’s one thing I need to pick up on – Digg’s increase in visitor numbers. Intuitively, an increase in numbers for Digg is implausible – the site certainly feels like it’s been waning in influence in the last few years. Lots of the more technologically literature users seem to have left (for Reddit, for Hacker News, for trusty old /., or for an array of trusted tech blogs and Twitter feeds), and the site seems to have become stagnant. Digg’s increase in numbers can be explained by the DiggBar. Digg added the DiggBar back in the first few months of 2009. This means that for every headline click on Digg, they get more page views for those who haven’t turned the DiggBar off. This doesn’t mean much, except they can go to their investors and say “hey, we’ve had an x% increase in traffic this year!” even though it’s not an actual increase in traffic, just a pageview inflation trick.

The same may be true for Twitter – it depends on how they measure traffic. You can use Compete.com/Alexa.com, but that isn’t always that useful a measure. Web analytics is a dark and difficult art where apples are frequently compared with oranges. Take LinkedIn: that it’s not as popular as Facebook is pretty irrelevant. It’s a business networking site – the number of people who use it are quite limited because, well, getting a job is boring compared to poking people. Compare the Institute of Directors and the Glastonbury Festival. How many bands performed at the former? Does it matter? Get too deep into comparing social networks and you’ll end up comparing apples and oranges.