December 2009 Archives

So where is the latest update of the Top 50 Australian writing blogs, you may be asking? Yes, an update is due, and no, it isn't happening anytime soon.

Some of you have already been contacting me on realising that Technorati has completely destroyed their usefulness by changing the nature of their scoring system.

I am regularly asked to review books - and other things - all the time on this blog and my policy has always been to say 'no'. This blog is not for profit and doesn't include advertising or anything else that can create any bias or conflict of interest. If I review something, it should be because I have something to say about it, not because I want to do a favour to get a freebie or - heaven forbid - get cash for comment. However, this one time I'm reviewing a book that I just couldn't refuse.

Just a quick reminder, to those of you that may have missed the announcement a couple of months back, that CopyWrite has split into two. All marketing, social media and interwebby type posts - past and future - now live over at Atomik Soapbox.

I say this because I notice some marketing subscribers to this blog have yet to subscribe over there, which means you could be missing out on the very posts you signed up for...

I grew up with a deep love for the old-school comedy acts. I sometimes feel I should have been born twenty years earlier so I could be sat in the audience at the London Hippodrome or the Palladium to watch the variety bills that were so popular in the '50s where so many of these performers honed their acts.