Web Monitor
16:43 UK time, Tuesday, 13 October 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
Today in Web Monitor: apologising about insincere apologies, being unapologetic about sitting around for a year and the argument for keeping your views to yourself. Share your favourite bits of the web by sending them via the letter box at the right of this page.
• On a very emotional he now feels guilty about biting off Evander Holyfield's ear. He explains he was desperate to win the fight:
"I didn't feel guilty at the time. I apologised to him... it wasn't sincere... I was more offended from apologising because it was so insincere... When I see him sometimes he's a little wary of me."
• On 28th October 2008, Nina Sankovitch started reading a book a day and posting a review of each one on her blog. She vowed to carry on for a year so she's almost finished. In why she does it and what she thinks makes a good story:
"It started as a quest to quench the relentless sorrow I felt over the death of my sister. My daily reading has been a salve for the sorrow and so much more: it has been an adventure, a grand vacation in the reading and a mighty struggle in the writing. I can't say I've become a better person in my year of reading one book a day but I have become a wider person, wider in experience... Okay, so I've also become wider in terms of my beam (a lot of sitting and reading) and I'm sleep-deprived (a lot of writing), and at times, mentally wrung-out. After all, every great book is about struggle and the success or failure in meeting that struggle and by now I've been through over two hundred thirty of those struggles."
• In contrast, an avid online music reviewer is urging people to keep quiet about their opinions on music. music lovers not to rate music online and not to tell their friends on blogs what they think about artists as it will be used for targeted advertising:
"Our intentions in listening will be harder and harder to keep pure; the temptations to sell our tastes out by blogging/tweeting/social network posting about them will continue to increase. It may be too late for me but the rest of you may be able to save yourselves. Tell no one online what you've heard."
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