Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, October 13, 2005

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The blogger who loathed me: "My cyber-nemesis had been trashing me for months. Then we met, and I had a chance to take a terrible revenge." [Salon.com]


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I added some new book reviews (written in Finnish) to my collection: All these appeared originally in the Tietoyhteys magazine.


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Linus on Specifications: "Yet again, Linus Torvalds seems determined to do more harm than good to the world of programming. Here’s why he hates specs." [Canned Platypus]


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BBC Embraces Reader Discussion: "Ben Metcalfe brings news of an interesting development over at the BBC. It seems that they always get way more reader input than the can do anything useful with on their own. The issue for this part of the BBC News website is that it has always been too damn popular." [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]


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Bloggers will "probably not" be deemed journalists: "Bloggers likely will not be deemed legitimate journalists who will be able to receive the coveted protections..." [CNET News.com - Personal Technology]


[Item Permalink] Blogging in Finland -- Comment()
Today appeared in the MikroPC magazine my article on blogging in Finland. Writing was difficult because of the cast around the left arm.

On the other hand, I discovered a lot of interesting blogs in Finland and elsewhere - wouldn't have discovered these without having to write this article. Here are some examples:


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A month ago I broke my arm because of falling off my bicycle. Today I have only three days left with the cast around my arm. I can't wait - operating with one hand has been quite a handicap for me.