Thursday, 31 March, 2005

Been Away

I have been away for a few days over the Easter weekend. Normal service will be resumed today, hopefully…

Wednesday, 23 March, 2005

E-mail is under-used in politics

From the BBC: The dramatic rise in home internet access has failed to plug the communication gap between politicians and citizens, a new survey has found. The survey, commissioned by Telewest Business, found that only 1% of people have contacted…

Tuesday, 22 March, 2005

Quoting Whole Posts

From Scbole: Diego wants off of my link blog Diego doesn’t want me to republish his blog posts. So far he’s the third person to ask me to stop doing that on my linkblog. What do I do? Simply unsubscribe…

Mobiles and Petrol Stations

I’ve always wondered about this… UK professor concludes: cellphones don’t cause gas station fires Maybe MythBusters isn’t a solid enough scientific authority for Connecticut state senator Andreas Stillman, who wants to ban the use of cellphones when you’re filling up…

Growing Readership

Some good advice from Susan Mernit: How to grow your (blogging) audience The traffic to this blog has gone up in the past three months, and it’s surely at least in part a result of some things I consciously put…

Monday, 21 March, 2005

New Link Blog Location

My link blog has now moved to Blogger. This is so I can use BlogJet to dump stuff to it quickly and easily – something I couldn’t do with the BlogLines blog.

Sunday, 20 March, 2005

Blogzine Launches

This might be useful and worth checking out, from Renee Blodgett Blogzine launches, which is New Communications Forum’s new bi-monthly online publication dedicated to exploring new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, (including blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, search…

Rubel Roundup

Quite a few interesting posts by Steve Rubel on Micro Persuasion recently, which I am still catching up on. Folksonomies Turn Chaos Into Information eWeek: The new term “Folksonomy” has emerged to describe the potential for user-defined tags to organically develop…

Forest Staying Up!

Great result for Forest today.Link below from the Guardian. More to follow when I get back online. Championship round-up Championship: Sunderland went top with a win over Coventry, as Wigan could only draw against Nottingham Forest. I really can see…

OneNote

I have been playing with Microsoft’s OneNote (guessed at URL) software. It’s huge for what is for me just a Notepad replacement! At the moment I am just using one of the many possible screens to record notes and URLs I might…