Re: can someone please explain what this blog tagging this is all about?

On Jan 20, 10:51 am, hpuxrac <johnbhur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 16, 7:52 pm, hjr.pyth...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

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OK I took a quick look at Tim Hall's blog ... he posted the following
info ...

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just got tagged by Chris Muir, so here goes my 8 things you may not
know about me:

When I was 14 years old I weighed 19 stone. That's 266 pounds or 121
kilos.
I was a distinctly average student at school. A few of my friends were
surprised when I passed my exams. Education only really started to
click with me after I left school and could focus on subjects I was
interested in. At sixth form and university I started getting into my
groove.
I've been a vegetarian since I was 15, so that's about 23 years and
counting. Even before that I ate very little meat and I never ate
fish. I don't like eggs and I can't drink milk on its own. I love
cheese. Life without cheese is not life.
I have a form of diabetes known as MODY. In my case it relates to a
mutation of the Glucokinase gene. It's no big thing, but I have to
avoid getting too fat and I have to be careful with sugary food
(refined or natural).
I played guitar in a couple of bands (Pondlife and Coppertongue) at
University. The bands were pretty good, but I wasn't. I specialized in
making weird noises with my guitar effects, rather than actually
playing.
I love singing. If I'm alone I sing out loud. If I'm in public I sing
in my head. If you see me in the street or in a shop I'm not a crazy
guy talking to himself. I'm just singing. I can hold a tune, but I'm
no star in the making.
Most of my adult life I've been an insomniac. I find it very difficult
to get to sleep and when I do I wake up a lot during the night. As a
result I tend to remember lots of dreams. On average about 3-5
distinct dreams a night. I keep meaning to start writing them down but
I've never got round to it yet.
I started working with Oracle by accident. I was at an interview and
they asked me if I'd heard of Oracle and I said, "Is that the teletext
stuff on TV?" At the time Oracle was the name for teletext on ITV, so
it wasn't as dumb as it sounds. Somehow I got the job anyway and the
rest is history.
I'm going to tag Andrew Clarke, Andy C, David Aldridge, Dimitri
Gielis, Howard Rogers, Jeff Hunter, John Scott and Kevin Closson.
(Alphabetical from my blogroll, hopefully not repeating anyone. )

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Yes I guess I agree this is kind of sophomoric and I don't see any
real connection except near the bottom with anything oracle related.

As I noted in my first post the material and quality of stuff being
blogged about for oracle has suffered over the last couple of years
( well Kevin Closson and Jonathan Lewis may be exceptions ) IMHO.

Guess you have a good point and if you were paying for bandwidth
getting monopolized by content like that above ... well say no more.

I'll just say this one more time, because otherwise I look like I'm
trying to censor content on other people's blogs (and indeed, that's
where the 'when I signed up for a blog I didn't sign your terms and
conditions' fatuous comment that one person sent me comes from)

It doesn't matter that the content you quote was not Oracle related. I
WELCOME non-Oracle related matters on blogs. I've posted plenty of it
in my time. I expect others to do likewise. Whether the above is
"sophomoric" or not was, to me, 100% irrelevant. Tim Hall, like any
other blog owner, is entitled to fill his blog with whatever content
he deems fit and proper, and I'm not making one iota of protest about
that.

What causes me problems is the "I'm going to tag..." line. It was the
encouragement of an explosive growth in this sort of thing that was
always going to be a problem. It was also the fact that when I pointed
out what an explosive growth in this sort of thing was doing to blog
aggregators Tim replied, 'so what, I don't use the site so it doesn't
matter to me, I never asked to be aggregated in the first place, blog
aggregators are skimming my work to their own personal advantage
anyway, I don't care, this is fun'.

In the IT world, anything that generates an exponentially-growing
volume of traffic is a problem. Encouraging it is therefore just plain
daft. Not caring about it once the damage has started is just
irresponsible and rather anti-social.

*That's* the problem here, not the nature of the content.
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