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I am going dark on Janu­ary 18 Amer­ican time, or between noon Janu­ary 18 WST my time until noon Janu­ary 19 WST, If you want to know why, even if I and you are am not an Amer­ic­ans, read Corey Doctorow’s Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA & PIPA because he puts it so much bet­ter than me.

A side pro­ject of mine, was a blog above gov 2.0, but after two years without updat­ing it. I decided enough was enough, and did not renew the domain name. The posts are not lost as I have archived the site at gov2.nickcowie.com.

It has been very quiet around here, for a num­ber of reas­ons. I did expect my three week enforced rest to be spent learn­ing and exper­i­ment­ing with the likes of CSS3 and HTML5 and then blog­ging about it. Instead I spent most of the time in the shed play­ing bicycle mechanic.

Once back at work, my usual blog­ging time on the train trip to and from work dis­ap­peared, as my Mac­Book Pro died and I star­ted rid­ing to work more often.

I need to start blog­ging on a more reg­u­lar basis …

It has been three months since my last post, and while I have not pos­ted here or at my other blog, I have not aban­doned either site.

As I have only worked 50 of the last 100 days, this blog should be full of inter­est­ing posts on CSS and other web geekery. Instead noth­ing, why?

I was hop­ing for a quiet night watch­ing the Tour De France, check­ing Friend­Feed occa­sion­ally. I was sur­prised to see Duncan Riley pos­ted 70 fresh blogs for your Feed Reader on Inquisitr and in the OPML file is the feed for this blog and the feed for my side pro­ject Gov2.info. So I thought I bet­ter pull a Louis Gray and write a blog post in 20 minutes thank­ing Duncan for the plug …

The under­ly­ing themes of the recent Future of Media and Pub­Camp seem to be Journ­al­ists vs Blog­gers as ilus­trated by posts by Stephen, Stilgher­rian and others.

Ser­i­ously old media types, this story is over 10 years old. New media has been mak­ing inroads in old media well before then.

In the past few days since it’s release Feedly has been gen­er­at­ing a huge buzz, a quick look for Feedly on Sum­mize(Twit­ter search engine) gives you an idea of the impact this exten­sion for Fire­fox 3 has had on early adop­ters in that time. Up until the begin­ning of this year, I was using Bloglines as […]

Con­ver­sa­tion has been a hot topic on the web recently, with Tech­Crunch, Duncan Riley, Alex van Elsas and Julian Bald­win amongst oth­ers. The main con­cern seems to be that new com­ments solu­tions are tak­ing the con­ver­sa­tion away from the ori­gin­at­ing web page. The oppos­ing view is that con­ver­sa­tion in the real world it is frag­men­ted. With dif­fer­ent people join­ing and leav­ing the con­ver­sa­tion at dif­fer­ent times.

This got me think­ing about …

Fol­low­ing up from my pre­vi­ous post on Con­ver­sa­tion vs Noise. This is about car­ry­ing out dis­cus­sions, this is not about status updates like “I just had baked beans on toast for din­ner”, nor is it about the reli­ab­il­ity of the ser­vice (given Twiiter&#8217s recent prob­lems). This is purely about using the ser­vice to carry out con­ver­sa­tions with intel­li­gent people, yes there are people like that on the internet.

If you hap­pen to be read­ing this post through my web­site, you might notice a few changes. Which should be hope­fully be the first of many, it is time I dragged this blog out of 2006, the last time I did any major changes into 2008…