Outsourcing to WA.

Our great local newspaper, The West Australia, has an article today on Bloggers. Being a good WA promoter, they’ve used an article from a good WA journalist. WA, as in Washington. That’s right the one in the U.S.
Rather than write something locally about the burgeoning local Blogger community, they’ll just republish an article from the [...]

Microsoft with $850,000 Worth Of Sun.

Microsoft just received $850,000 worth of Sun Microsystem’s servers and storage. Proof the relationship is still barreling ahead.
All details, and photos at Enterprise Engineering Center WebLog.
Link via Scoble.

Slashdot Effect, A Historical Term.

Slashdot’s effects have diminished. Not surprising really, given slashdot’s news is always a day or two behind the rest of the blogosphere. It’s not often they break news these days.

A year ago, Slashdot contributed 5.5% of all traffic going to tech news sites like CNET (CNET ), Wired, and Gizmodo. But by last month, its [...]

Link Back Whuffie.

What happened to the un-written rule of blogging that says we link to the source of the news. If you read something on a blog, and you write it on your own, at least link back to where you read it. That’s what blogging is about, being a selfless community. That way we’ll all enjoy [...]