‘Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the sphere
Not a blogger was whining
Like headlights with no deer
The Beta Boys had spread
Each to his own state
Where many gifts and gadgets
Were his to await
Would it be an unlocked G1
Or Kindle from on high
We dreamt of DS Lights
So tiny and nigh
But behold,
Though the Beta Base is empty […]

If you noticed Grant’s post yesterday you may have also seen that it has two trackbacks on it. Two trackbacks from the same site. I was wondering why someone would be so interested in the post to trackback it twice until I looked at the URL we were getting linked from.
http://www.a-s-i-a.net/blog/Bangladesh/index.php/2007/08/16/i’ll-pick-you-up-at-6-in-bangladesh/
It looks […]

Brendan, Sean, and I are hanging out at Wordcamp 2007 right now listening to Dvorak and Om Malik talk about blogging versus journalism. The discussion has turned to commenting on blogs, and how it differentiates blogs from mainstream media. Om thinks that commenting is what separates blogs from MSM and that it’s the blog […]

Brian mentioned this briefly in an earlier post, but I thought the curiously amusing I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? deserved a real mention. The site is basically a blog of what are known as LOLCats, a strange subset of image macros. They’re all pretty much made up of a cute picture of an […]

Mike recently asked me how I think of what to write on alwaysBETA. It’s never a trivial task to sit down and write a post, even though power-bloggers appear to churn out oodles of posts each day without reprieve. It takes a surprising amount of dedication to keep writing both regularly and well.
Writing on […]