As many of you know, I'm usually around Troppo for Missing Link purposes, and it's Missing Link that can take a great deal of the credit for Legal Eagle and I heading off on a new joint blogging venture . Jacques Chester - Troppo's redoubtable blog admin - can also take a bunc...
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A few hails and farewells to kick off today's issue of Missing Link. Condolences to the family of Charles Murton, erudite proprietor of Diogenes' Lamp . Charles died after a lengthy battle with cancer, and will be remembered for his astute engagement with all comers across the...
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Names are de rigueur around Ozblogistan this issue, as sundry people riff on a piece by resident Age bomb-thrower and lefty Andrew Bolt alternative, Catherine Deveny. Nick Gruen and Legal Eagle got going with two thoughtful pieces apiece, while Darlene Taylor was in wholeheart...
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APEC and election speculation is clearly dominating bloggy concerns, and people are starting to get a tad silly with it all. The latest hacking victim is Andrew Landeryou , who joins his ideological opponent Jeremy Sear in having had his site hacked and blog nicked. Love em or...
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Well, I could bill this as the Andrew Johns druggie special edition, because Joey's turn at the Notting Hill Carnival has certainly made a few waves around Ozblogistan. As is often the case, Wicking managed to combine Johns' efforts with one of the stranger animal interest sto...
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We'll start with a community service announcement: The Australian Blogging Conference is to be held at the Queensland University of Technology on September 28 this year. Peter Black, one of the Missing Link crew, has put a considerable amount of time into getting it off the gr...
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First up, an apology for the lateness of this issue. I've been overdoing things at the Edinburgh Festival, with the result that Missing Link has suffered. Still, there's plenty of goodies here for your weekend delectation, so sit back with something drinkable and enjoy. I'll k...
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See, this Kevin bloke walked into a bar... Ozblogistan (like the MSM, but somewhat more cynically) got into Kevin's Komedy Kapers at a New York strip club big time, and spent (a fair bit of) time concluding it was a storm in a teacup, albeit a highly entertaining one. Some of...
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With any sort of luck, this issue of Missing Link will wend its way out to our subscribers via email, as Jacques slowly rebuilds the Troppo server using the dedicated equipment he's just bought on the site's behalf. Let us know in the comments if you received the email, and ho...
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Another day, another blogger... or, in this case, another member of the Missing Link crew. Ken Parish is leaving us temporarily (although he will be back, be assured of that). This means the Centrist Bloggers require a new custodian, and we'd like you to make gilmae welcome. A...
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Once again we're late with today's edition of Missing Link, but we do have a good excuse! Due to work pressures, Jason Soon is going on an extended Missing Link hiatus, and we've had to scope out a replacement. Stepping into Jason's shoes will be Peter Black, a contender for O...
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Not such a fat issue this time - on this anniversary of the 1944 bomb plot - which is just as well - you'd all be read out otherwise. Still, there's been lots of goodness on the intertubes, and I'll pop a few recommendations up front before hopping into Missing Link proper. Fi...
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Well, Mohammed Haneef and the Bail Dance... or not, as the case may be. It certainly got Ozblogistan going in a big way, with lots of lively commentary and legal input. For my money, bloggers really showed where they can do a much better job than the MSM, simply by being able...
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My apologies to all and sundry; the reason Missing Link is late is because yours truly got overconfident about getting over the dreaded lurgi, which I'm now paying for in spades. Missing Link will be up this afternoon, after I've been to the doctor (yes, me going to a doctor;...
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Housing and blogging, blogging and housing. Since we did some navel gazing in the last issue, I thought we'd better leave the blog v MSM stoush to the news and politics section, and bring housing affordability up to the top of this issue of Missing Link. This is such a juicy t...
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A bit of navel gazing never hurt anyone, and in this issue, various bloggers engage our (oftimes troubled) relationship with the MSM, along with the role of new communications tools. Particularly worthwhile in this context is Peter Black's ongoing examination of Facebook v oth...
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In an obvious bid for some inter-thread Missing Link stoushing, Amanda has decided to do her arts review as a series of links (or, alternatively - and more likely - I have seriously screwed something up). We are also down on some personnel, with Ken Parish still snowed under a...
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First up, some housekeeping. The Missing Link crew have added a new committee member, and we'd like y'all to welcome Legal Eagle to the fold. For those of you who've been following this illustrious publication, you'd know that Legal Eagle is a young mum, legal academic and (fo...
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Well, after my R v Hurley -imposed-hiatus, I'm back (thank Christ). Once again bringing the best of the blogosphere to you via the redoubtable Missing Link crew (if I ever make enough money, I'll be commissioning Hilltop Hoods to write us a theme song). I could have done witho...
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Well, I couldn't round up a theme this time, although - as usual - there have been some memorable bits of bloggy goodness. My personal post of the week is from Legal Eagle, who has a superb piece on Nick Cohen's What's Left? (A book meme that appears to have been started by Ia...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Well, it's not often we get Culture Wars, inter-blog stoushing, religion and grievous bodily harm all rolled into one, but today's issue of Missing Link highlights a memo...
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Well, thanks to some shilly-shallying about by your humble correspondent, it's been delayed. Admittedly there are a couple of outstanding bloggy conversations that I want to summarize (and they're still maturing tastily), but for the most part it's because both I and some of t...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad First up, an apology from the Missing Link crew for failing to produce a Monday edition. To make up for it, we've prepared a bumper issue for today, in the hope that y'al...
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Well, things have been a bit lively on the technology side, so no internal hyperlinks (and no wiki, alas). Nonetheless your faithful Missing Link Editorial team (tm) have done their bit to bring you lots of bloggy goodness to enjoy. Kicking off today's issue is a variety of di...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S. 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Well, the news in this issue of Missing Link is that News Ltd appears to have played lots of people for suckers. First, there was the story that some of the proposed cit...
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Is there such a thing as 'Budget Bounce'? Will Cossie's spend-up save the Coalition come polling day? Or is the budget something of a Curate's Egg - only good in parts? Welcome to Club Troppo's Budget Special Edition, where we round up the best blogospheric commentary so you d...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Industrial relations got Ozblogistan going this week, with some great stuff from across the political spectrum. That apart, there was some interest in the French election...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Well, nothing's so handy as a theme, but this edition of Missing Link doesn't have one. I thought Julia Gillard and Bill Heffernan opening their respective mouths to chan...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Two events captured Ozblogistan's collective attention: the ALP National Conference, and the World Cup Cricket Finals Fiasco. There were some excellent posts about both,...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Years ago, Alan Seymour's play tagged Anzac Day the one day of the year . For mine (SL) this year's day brought the best out of Ozblogistan. Kicking off a plethora of fab...
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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Inevitably, the mass killing at Virginia Tech University in the US brought forth commentary from around Ozblogistan, much of it bemused by US gun laws or - alternatively...
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Ken discovered that work kept him from fulfilling his Missing Link duties for this week, which upset him greatly but couldn't be helped. So that Darlene Taylor - next week's Missing Link custodian - isn't completely overwhelmed come Monday, I've compiled a weekend version. It'...
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Well, in the couple of days since Wednesday, climate change and the Turnbull-Garrett debate moved to the forefront of Ozblogistan's concerns. Alas, the posts on the debate weren't as classy as some of the global warming pieces. This means I've forgone Missing Link's usual Sci-...
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Blogdom's Lazarus with a triple bypass is back on deck! As Ken pointed out a few days ago, doing justice to Missing Link was one helluva big deal solo, so he had to let it drop. Rather than have the whole thing wither on the vine, though, he figured a collaborative effort migh...
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