Archive for October, 2006

Are the United States a power in international beard and moustache competitions?

Friday, October 6th, 2006

This is a major question.
I found this great website though Yahoo top 100 weirdest websites (a bible).

So these are the German competitors.
You can also visit the American Team’s Weblog. Meet Phil Oslen :

Name:Phil Olsen

Location: Lake Tahoe, California, United States

Founder and self-appointed captain of Beard Team USA, competing for the USA at the World Beard [...]

Should bloggers be paid for fake reviews ?

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

I read this post in Techcrunch the other day : Controversial PayPerPost Raises $3 million
PayPerPost offers bloggers to write for money, to promote products or websites. Offers come from companies who want to create some “buzz”.

Why don’t we, bloggers, go to the opportunity page of PPP and choose randomly some offer, and for free, write [...]

Ready for open source journalism ?

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

The Internet sites of most newspapers have become part of their editorial strategy. Just look at leading papers such as the New York Times, the FT, the Wall Street Journal, their business models is not always very clear to me (you can access articles and archive by subscription, pay for the particular article [...]

Does Blogging require consistency ?

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

I wonder if Blogging is the activity that requires the most consistency.
Sure, I have to find one idea a day.
But some people slave themselves to more stringent activities:
Painting Time :
“Artist Roman Opalka has painted time exclusively since 1965. he paints a sequence of numbers to represent the passing of time. Opalka has now passed the [...]

Random links ?

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Adds your blog to any service
This is a good service I just discovered. It allows you to have an “add to any” button on your blog. Your readers have access to all possibly existing newsreaders, bookmark managers, and other services with your feed pre filled. Isn’t it good ?
(tags: add feed, bookmarking, rss, blogging)

try ruby! [...]