Computers Behind Blogs – Intro

by Iain on January 24, 2007

Here’s a little pet project I’ve been thinking about for a while.

I wanted to do something that shows the computers that people blog from. I reckon it might give an interesting, non-verbal snapshot into the bloggers’ world. So I’ve gone and done it.

Read more here.

Please get involved if you’re a blogger. And tell all your blogging friends. The more the merrier.

15 comments

Hi Iain,

I’ve shared already, BTW your group is similar to Bloggers Desks set up by Drew Benvie: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bloggersdesks/

by Ged on 24/01/2007 at 9:20 pm. #

border genius.

lovin’ it

A

by Asi on 25/01/2007 at 8:42 am. #

It’s complete serendipity but we started the edublogoffices group yesterday;
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/01/edublogoffices_.html

for those who blog around education. Great minds…?

by Ewan McIntosh on 25/01/2007 at 10:28 am. #

Done.

by Ben on 25/01/2007 at 12:01 pm. #

Where do you blog from?…

Iain Tait at his blog CrackUnit.com has a great post today. He’s calling on bloggers to take a photo of the computer(s) they blog from….

by Techno//Marketer on 25/01/2007 at 1:11 pm. #

[...] Iain has set up a Flickr group inviting bloggers to show the computers behind their blog. So here’s mine: [...]

by Made in ENGLAND by Gentlemen Computers Behind Blogs on 25/01/2007 at 11:19 pm. #

[...] I like Iain’s new “computers behind blogs” meme. It reminds of the similar “what’s in your bag” game also on Flickr. [...]

by A Blogger’s Computer at No Man’s Blog on 26/01/2007 at 11:07 am. #

here (http://biroudeblogger.blogspot.com) is the romanian initiative i started at the beginning of this year. it’s dedicated to bloggers’ home or office desks.

by Cristian Manafu on 26/01/2007 at 3:07 pm. #

Nice idea. Thanks, as good as done.

by jj on 28/01/2007 at 12:35 pm. #

Lovely idea -I’m in.

by Jason Lonsdale on 03/02/2007 at 5:36 pm. #

I’m in too.

by dan@innocent on 04/02/2007 at 12:49 am. #

I hate macs…

Not me personally, you understand. Some of my best friends are macs. But this article in The Guardian made me laugh. (Particularly in view of Iain’s Flickr group..) Also very funny is the media placement around it – Banner,……

by TMW Ideas on 06/02/2007 at 11:35 am. #

The Computer Behind Playpen…

Okay, it’s not really the server behind Playpen, but it is the machine on which I write most of it. [Iain](http://www.crackunit.com) had the nice (and as it turned out [simultaneous](http://www.crackunit.com/2007/01/24/computers-behind-blogs-int…

by Playpen Local on 31/05/2007 at 7:50 pm. #

That’s a real good idea. I have to say though, if Macs were th only computers left on the Earth I would give up computing altogether.

by Tina Anderson on 07/03/2008 at 3:52 pm. #

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