The jewel in the crown of Samizdata.net
A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
[Russ.,= self-publishing house]
There is much to find for those who look
We are not alone
Made possible by...
 
July 04, 2005
Monday
 
 
A BBC mention
Dave Shaw (London)  Blogging & Bloggers

We have a mention on the BBC web site in their weblog watch quoting this.
What ever next?

Comments

Which they were impolite enough not to bother with a trackback.


Posted by Rob Read at July 4, 2005 10:23 PM

Totally off topic,The booze free Live8 was only booze free for the proles,a friends brother-in-law went and there were bars in the corporate sector.
The bloke was utterly pissed off.


Posted by Peter at July 4, 2005 10:35 PM

A mention on BBC Radio 4's "The Westminster Hour" was what prompted me to find Samizdata.


Posted by Robert at July 5, 2005 03:21 AM

Well done.


Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at July 5, 2005 10:40 AM

What ever next?

If that's interesting, maybe it's equally interesting that I didn't find it at all odd as I made the link. If it's decent commentary that's relatively recent, relative to the topic in hand, and helps make a useful through-list of links, in it goes. Helps, of course, if a blog is in my RSS reader, which indirectly brings us to...

Which they were impolite enough not to bother with a trackback.

...I'd be shamefaced if I thought this was especially shameful, and moreso if I understood why. The BBC site is built on sturdy, hoary multi-layered code within which they're working on newer bits of tech which are normal in blogging. Why trackback isn't there yet could prompt endless speculation on my part and anyone else's.

But it's nothing personal. It is *a* shame, though, 'cause it's by no means the first time I've linked to this blog. Why wouldn't I? :)


Posted by Alan Connor at July 5, 2005 02:01 PM
If it's decent commentary that's relatively recent, relative to the topic in hand, and helps make a useful through-list of links, in it goes.

Add biased-bbcto your reader then. Go on, you know you want to.


Posted by Pete_London at July 5, 2005 04:00 PM

Add biased-bbcto your reader then. Go on, you know you want to.

Now I'm the one thinking "whatever next?".

I'm interested in blogs, I write on the BBC site, I have to think carefully about the BBC's balance requirements and possible objections from their critics (and very much enjoy striving for that) -- so Biased BBC has been in my RSS reader since I first twigged that blogspot blogs don't need to have a link to an XML feed: NetNewsWire works it out from the URL. Yay!

But thanks for the heads-up; there was a chance I wouldn't have seen that site. And thanks for not being as aggressive as other fans of Biased BBC, who've acted as if I invented the licence fee, and suggested that not having written about Biased BBC (yet) is another example of bias.

nb, if it's forgivable to link to one's own writing here, this previous Weblog Watch might be of interest to Samizdaters:

"Iran is a country being ruled by Islamic fundamentalists. Nepal is a country being ruled by royalist fundamentalists. Our situation is not different."


Posted by Alan Connor at July 6, 2005 01:06 PM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?


Enter anti-spambot Turing code:





Select some text and click this to format it as a quote Make the selected text bold Make the selected text italic Add a web link


Basic html active.

Alas, but for obscure reasons Mozilla, Mac and Linux users shall not harness to power of the push-button formatting options and shall therefore compose basic html with their bare hands. Yet Mozilla, Mac and Linux users shall not fear, for we shall reveal forthwith the mysteries of Basic Html:

<strong>This text in-between is bold</strong>

<em>This text is in italics</em>

And
<blockquote>This is a quote</blockquote>
Remember to close your opened tags as such: <tag> tagged text and closing </tag> and we promise you will get out of here alive.

For adding links, either use the link URL button on the toolbar or enter your code by hand in the following format:
<a href="http://www.your_link.com">your link text or description here</a>

Movable Type's anti-spambot e-mail address protection is enabled.

You are a guest on private property. Have fun but please be civil and succinct. Blogroaches will be persecuted, not to mention IP banned.

Long third party quotes or articles will also be deleted... so just link to articles you think are germane to your comment, don't quote the whole bloody thing.