By Roland Piquepaille
Today, please forgive me for this little bit of auto-satisfaction. The Times of London has published an article two days ago about business blogs, and it's quoting me and my experience. You can read "Downsized to king of the blogs" for free up to September 28. What a thrill to be mentioned by such a respectable newspaper! I'm not sure this article will stop the few Slashdot readers who say I'm a "plagiarist" or a "spammer," accusing me to submit entries to Slashdot to get more traffic, and more money from ads. They probably never realized that Slashdot, and practically all other online publications, need to pay their bills, and are placing ads just for this purpose. The ads on my blog cover my online access costs, but certainly not the time I try to find nearly exclusive news on this blog. Read more...So here are the excerpts of the Times about my blog -- pretty impressive if you ask me. And I don't even know the journalist, Andrew Heavens, who is free to write within the guidelines of his newspaper. Here is the subtitle of the article.
Two months ago, his reader count broke through the three million mark. When he started blogging, he found 50 references to his name on Google. Type in "Roland Piquepaille" today and you will get just short of 40,000.
And here are the paragraphs about my blog.
Roland Piquepaille started writing his blog "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends" from Paris when he had some time on his hands after being "downsized" at SGI, the supercomputer company.
"I decided to write about how new technologies were modifying our lives, because there are almost always good and bad things coming from new or unproven technologies
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