October 24th, 2005

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Out of the Way…On Mallorca

I have been doing a little research on blogs which cover out of the way topics and, believe me, there are plenty. Lots are splogs with next to zero information designed for the adsense market. But once in a while you run across a blog which understands its niche.

The Best of Mallorca uses the convienience of the blog “item” format to walk you through the pleasures of Mallorca. Now, truth to tell the only thing I know about Mallorca is that Robert Graves lived there for years in a sort of pre-hippie hippie exile and, following his style, counter culture folk have been going there for years.

Which means my information is roughly twenty years out of date. Best of Mallorca uses the bloggy content management system to be as fresh as last week while still having time and space to mention that Mallorca’s 800 year old cathedral was refubished by Gaudi in 1904. Which is the beauty of the blogging format. You can go long when you need to, include pics after a jump and, at the same time, provide the casual surfer with instant information.

I am amazed that there are not more destination specific blogs…or, perhaps there are an I just have not found them yet.

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Python makes this headline impossible

Dead parrot had H5N1 bird flu: Britain (CTV)

Horrible as the prospects of bird flu are, the possibility of no longer thinking dead parrots are merely sleeping would leave me pining for the fjords.

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Do no Evil 2.0

google logo

Not even the website for this conference can be accessed without a userid and password.

Later this week Google will have their invite-only Zeitgeist conference. It’s as closed as a conference can be. And this is the company we lifted on our shoulders and held up as a shining example of the web at its best. We were wrong to do that, but forgive us for having hope. At some core level Google did understand the web, but there was also a lot about Google that was against the web, and now that’s most of what they are.
Dave Winer

I love Google but this has the mild aroma of Microsoft…

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