tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post7545346447518407649..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Being in the Wrong ListBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-59704411858463126822007-09-23T19:10:00.000+00:002007-09-23T19:10:00.000+00:00Now Bryan - I confess I told Iain you should have ...Now Bryan - I confess I told Iain you should have been higher up the list. Did I do wrong?James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91682555860134214712007-09-23T18:40:00.000+00:002007-09-23T18:40:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-31067226451541084192007-09-23T18:04:00.000+00:002007-09-23T18:04:00.000+00:00Well thanks for all the kind words and the sound a...Well thanks for all the kind words and the sound advice, Ronin. I still thin about you tidying the room while waiting for the ambulance.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78614708875808433512007-09-23T16:52:00.000+00:002007-09-23T16:52:00.000+00:00Oliver Kamm deserves to be in a special category a...Oliver Kamm deserves to be in a special category all by himself - "blogs by people who affect to despise blogging." Is there any sense in a man who thinks wikipedia is a threat to western civilisation devoting so much time to his own blog?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-50049792697460199672007-09-23T16:47:00.000+00:002007-09-23T16:47:00.000+00:00Perhaps Thought Experiments is a media blog becaus...Perhaps <I>Thought Experiments</I> is a media blog because it cannot be pigeonholed like so many others. A bit of <A HREF="http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2007/09/ponder-post-10-tattoos.php" REL="nofollow">this</A>, a dash of <A HREF="http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2007/09/death-of-hedge-funds.php" REL="nofollow">that</A>, a smattering of the <A HREF="http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-66169104655556775292007-09-23T15:39:00.000+00:002007-09-23T15:39:00.000+00:00In the comments to his original entry, Ian Dale sa...In the comments to his original entry, Ian Dale says of another blog he's tagged as "media": "[X] is indeed a media blogger. He's a journalist who happens to write a blog." So ID's classification is pretty meaningless. Mr X could just as easily be a writer/dad/polar explorer who happens to be a journalist.<BR/><BR/>At a guess (it's your blog), what you enjoy is stated explicitly in a good title Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-57430540577349909322007-09-23T13:23:00.000+00:002007-09-23T13:23:00.000+00:00The idea of 'genres' in blogging is misleading. i ...The idea of 'genres' in blogging is misleading. i read a fairly wide range of blogs & am only interested in prose that i enjoy reading. The actual subject matter is of little interest to me. Many people write readably enough, but without giving any pleasure: i'd only read them for pure information. <BR/><BR/>How about 'An Enjoyable Blog'? To give pleasure is a worthwhile aim, in everything. i Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-88562465818726131022007-09-23T13:03:00.000+00:002007-09-23T13:03:00.000+00:00A 'Blog' sounds like something you pick up and clo...A 'Blog' sounds like something you pick up and clobber people with. You first anaesthetise your reader using mind-numbing inanities and then dash his brains out with self-absorbed bullshit delivered in lifeless prose before dispatching him to an everlasting blog hell where every day is Sunday, and it's pissing down, and he's standing, even with a ticket, on a Virgin train all the way from EustonJohn Halliwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901514854360709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-86847758930412367762007-09-23T12:00:00.000+00:002007-09-23T12:00:00.000+00:00At the risk of sounding sycophantic, how about 're...At the risk of sounding sycophantic, how about 'readable blogs', 'worthwhile blogs', or 'not-up-their-own-arse-in-boring-political-minutiae blogs'? I didn't even make the top twenty Welsh blogs and I suspect I wouldn't even make the top twenty written by people called 'Dale'. I can only assume that this book will be eminently untrustworthy and the highest recommendation one might have is by Big Chip Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05585365213244296058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-547611441208994422007-09-23T11:55:00.000+00:002007-09-23T11:55:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.John Halliwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901514854360709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-38736055064854344832007-09-23T11:52:00.000+00:002007-09-23T11:52:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Big Chip Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05585365213244296058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-36242594852441004532007-09-23T10:32:00.000+00:002007-09-23T10:32:00.000+00:00Got it - the Ineffable Blog!Got it - the Ineffable Blog!Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-35241261623450438852007-09-23T10:23:00.000+00:002007-09-23T10:23:00.000+00:00Blimey the Effie thing - is that still going? Per...Blimey the Effie thing - is that still going? Perhaps we could be an Effing Blog. Might be number 1 in that list... What, by the way, is Dad Blog doing in a top 30 of political blogs? Isn't it a case of the only 30 blogs Dale's readers had heard of? <BR/>Excellent, they're shooting rabbits on Countryfile - you don't often see that. More later (maybe).Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-74379599341864730712007-09-23T09:12:00.000+00:002007-09-23T09:12:00.000+00:00'Disabusing' blogs. The Effie thing, deary me!'Disabusing' blogs. The Effie thing, deary me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-73648514040004881292007-09-23T09:07:00.000+00:002007-09-23T09:07:00.000+00:00slow deep breaths. a link is a link is a link.I'd ...slow deep breaths. a link is a link is a link.<BR/><BR/>I'd have you at the top in the Double Acts Blogs, second only to Ant & Dec.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-68933852166732413102007-09-23T09:04:00.000+00:002007-09-23T09:04:00.000+00:00'In Blog We Trust' err ...blog ?'In Blog We Trust' err ...blog ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-39260812481725522722007-09-23T08:22:00.000+00:002007-09-23T08:22:00.000+00:00"indescribably sad types with curiously deformed h..."indescribably sad types with curiously deformed hindquarters"<BR/><BR/>I'd appreciate a little respect here when you talk about me. <BR/><BR/>HahAHa<BR/><BR/>As for what kind of list Thought Experiments belongs to, how about "Insatiably Curious and Sardonic" blog?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com