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I use a MacBook and everything, and I wouldn’t go back to PCs, but sometimes I find Apple-devotion a little creepy. Everyone knows they’re a multinational corporation that’s basically a lot like Bill’s mob, right? (Even though I use them, I always laugh at this Charlie Brooker takedown).

Anyway I laughed at GrodsCorp’s post today, which pricks the iPhone 2.0 hysteria a little bit by pointing out that while he was launching the machine, Steve Jobs’ pants were definitely Jeans 1.0

Uncategorized Apple, Grods

UPDATE: I missed Tim Lambert’s contribution to the Quiggin/Young bout.

First in a new series offering links to fresh and robust stoushing. I’ll try a longer post about snark and stoushing later this week!

BANG!!!

John Quiggin replies to Graham Young’s On Line Opinion piece on warming “bullying” with an invocation of Godwin’s law. (Look down the comments for a further reply from Graham)

THUMP!!!

Grods issues a new entry in a snarky series on Alexander Downer: Blogger.

THWACK!!!

Jeremy Sear takes on Guy Rundle’s arguments (locked up in yesterday’s Crikey) on gay marriage.

Be careful out there, and remember, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye, etc.

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UPDATE: Grodscorp’s weekly podcast, this time including discussion of the Blair move, is here. NSFW - frequent coarse language.

I think it’s fair to say that we here at Gatewatching have had an… interesting relationship with Tim Blair’s blog since we started posting here last year. I won’t go over the details of our spat - you can check out the archives if you like. In some ways a fight with Blair has probably become a rite of passage in the Australian blogosphere. Anyway, news is that he’s moved his blog onto the site of his main employer, the Daily Telegraph.

Blair’s blog has been one of the most successful Australian efforts in terms of traffic, not least because he’s been able to draw an international readership. He’s moved through several hosting set-ups - first on blogspot, then spleenville, then to the place he was blogging until today, timblair.net. All of this, apparently, has been independent of his work on the Bulletin and then the Tele as an editor and columnist. Now his blog has been integrated on the paper’s main site, and it esembles those of his News Limited colleagues Andrew Bolt, and Tim Dunlop (author of Blogocracy).

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