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Very funny as usual.

Did you see how Private Eye had spoofed The Guardian re-design and the staff's reaction to it through a spoof Guardian blog.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/
news...en\\_reading.html

"7.14pm The paper is completed and triumphant Guardian staff proceed in an open top bus from Farringdon Road to Trafalgar Square to accept the cheers of hundreds of tens of Guardian fans...."

It was very, very good and The Guardian blogged it too

Annie Mole | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 9:17 a.m. | #

..meanwhile yesterday I came across the first major disadvanatage of the smaller page size of the Grauni when I spread some pages out to protect the floor whilst painting. I had to to do far more spreading... mucho longer time!

NiC | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 9:41 a.m. | #

DG, you are a mine of useful/less* information. Many thanks.

*delete as applicable

Katherine | 05.10.05 - 11:08 a.m. | #

Brilliant.

You deserve the front page.

And yes, why not tag your posts via Technorati?

The Girl | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 11:20 a.m. | #

When are we going to see the day's best comments collated and published in a newspaper, eh? Mm?

Ant | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 1:48 p.m. | #

Yes, very good.

I suspect he does use Technorati to find the stuff rather than google. Though probably via Technorati search rather than tags, in which Diamond Geezer does appear quite happily.

Dave | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 1:58 p.m. | #

As DG said in his post he probably uses Google's blog search

Also I don't think that having technorati tags on your blog will mean than mainstream media will be beating a path to your door.

DG's blog rightly made it to the printed version of The Guardian ages ago and I didn't notice that the blog became any less friendly than it is now.

Annie Mole | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 3:30 p.m. | #

Actually, as some of us can testify, having your website address printed in a newspaper or magazine (where there's no easily-clickable URL) doesn't necessarily bring a corresponding big spike in visitor numbers.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 5:46 p.m. | #

Agreed - far better to be in a well visited website than a printed paper - specially if that paper is non techy/geeky/computer orientated.

Getting a link on the BBC's website can bring in big visitor numbers though, as does a link on Boing Boing, ditto b3ta, or a laddish website like FHM's, as does a link on slashdot, as does a link in one of the major search engine's "portal" pages and sometimes a link on the Guardian's site.

BTW I haven't had links in all of the above (quite a few of them) but I've seen the slashdot effect and the b3ta effect on other sites.

Annie Mole | Homepage | 05.10.05 - 6:29 p.m. | #

And the subject of Thursday's Today on the web is... Tom DeLay?

Damn - how silly of me not to have blogged about this extremely relevant American political scandal.

Ah well, maybe another time...

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.10.05 - 9:12 a.m. | #

Wahey!!!!
Finally made it, 19 weeks later...

diamond geezer | Homepage | 17.02.06 - 10:08 p.m. | #











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