Engine Punk

I hadn’t looked at my website for a long time until today and I couldn’t find it. All links led to this blog and I was mystified. Even the icon on my favourites had become the Blogger logo. I think this may have arisen from an abortive attempt to sex up my blog. Having seen some others that had a great look about them, I decided to see if I could improve its appearance. Blogger suggested that this could be achieved if I set my blog up on their blogspot and not on my own domain. I’d had a go at this a few weeks (alright months) ago and then run out of time. I don’t think I’ve glanced at my website since then. I went back to my website files and uploaded them on to the net again but they still didn’t appear. I indulged in creativity diversion by purging the references to my old Anarchadia blog on my web pages and uploaded that, hoping that the first lot would have flowed through the net by then and that the first problem would have fixed itself in a kind of switch-it-off, switch-...

Zoe Margolis - the Girl with a One Track Mind – is probably the most famous blogger-cum-author. Except that she tried to it all anonymously. In publishing the author is the brand but by calling herself Girl with a One Track Mind she gave herself an instant identity. Belle du Jour did a similar thing. Perhaps they rode on then reputation of established by the earlier works of Anonymous. Girl with a One Track Mind was said to be revolutionary and her expression of female sexuality was subsequently published. By Virgin. Actually it wasn’t, it was Ebury. This doesn’t sound all that revolutionary to me but there was a feeding frenzy among literary agents earlier in the noughties and when Margolis was “outed” by the tabloids the publicity did wonders for sales at the expense of her privacy. Belle du Jour is still in cognito . Some say she doesn’t exist. Blogging allowed them to express themselves but they started when blogging was new. Nowadays it’s much harder to mak...