Mark Jen used to have a small technical-oriented blog read by a few people (much like your humble Technollama). Then he started working for Google and everything changed. He started using his blog ninetyninezeros to descibe conditions at Google. He wrote some candid posts about his short life with the Read more…
Technollama has spent some time in London at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute for the launch of the Patenting Lives project. This is pretty good project, we will keep an eye on it (and link to it often).
This is the first UK case of a man being fired because of something that he wrote on a blog. Joe Gordon, was a senior bookseller at Waterstone’s store in Edinburgh, and had been with the company for 11 years. He has a blog called the Woolamaloo Gazette, in which Read more…
2004 has been the year of the blog. The BBC reports that the word “blog” has now been included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The definition reads: “BLOG noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by Read more…
The BBC reports that stewardess (sorry, air hostess) Ellen Simonetti, known in blogging circles as Queen of the Sky, has been suspended for posing for photographs that appeared in her blog. She is wearing a Delta Airlines uniform and is posing revealingly, but nothing spectacular. I wonder, how did the Read more…