Friday, 17 February, 2006

Email and Blogging

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that it is a good idea for a blogger to have his or her email address easily accessible. But what about when that email address isn’t one that a reader would want to use? I…

Thursday, 16 February, 2006

links for 2006-02-16

Oldham 3-0 Nottm Forest Pathetic (tags: football forest) The Art of Creating a Community (tags: community) ANN: FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2 (Build 2.0.0.13) (tags: feeddemon rss) Guess what’s waiting… (tags: firefox google toolbar) Amazon plans music service to rival iPod…

Qumana

Well, this is my first post with Qumana (Version 3 beta 1), a free desktop offline blog post editor. It’s pretty cool, though I do have some issues with it. Feature wise, it does everything you would expect, offering a…

Wednesday, 15 February, 2006

links for 2006-02-15

dPolls.com Wasn’t working at 9.00am this morning… (tags: web2.0 polls) Qumana blog editor and blogging tools Is this always free? Seems like a worthy competitor to Blogjet… (tags: blogging software) Measure Map (tags: blogging web2.0 google stats) Microsoft Monitor: What…

Tuesday, 14 February, 2006

links for 2006-02-14

Common sense on free speech (tags: naughton free speech) From a garage studio in Yorkshire, Larkin speaks again (tags: larkin) Library Thing – keep your book records online (tags: web2.0 books rss)

de.icio.us daily post

I have been playing with the daily post setting on del.icio.us and tonight I’ll find out if it is going to work… Basically, the daily post spits out a post to your blog containing all the sites I linked to…

Monday, 13 February, 2006

Links 13/2/06

Listable is a Web 2.0 thing for making tagged community lists. Hmm. They do have a rather nice list of Web 2.0 sites though. Dave Winer notices how slowly Gmail is recently. It’s a nightmare – think the Google Talk…

Wikis

I have needed a simple wiki solution for a little problem of mine, and I have found just what I was after. I just needed a page or two that could be easily edited for the handful of people who…

Weird Spam

This is the strangest bit of comment spam I think I have ever got: You are no way on the 300th page of Google – in fact, your on the first and number 2 for my search “successful blogging” –…

Thursday, 9 February, 2006

Recovered

after a particularly nasty bout of the winter vomit flu, which has obviously spread from the West Midlands to the Welsh borders. The few things I have read on the web recently have been posted to del.icio.us. I’ll try and…

Thursday, 2 February, 2006

Links 2/2/06

How to Make Wikipedia better Deliciousing – Scoble wonders how to use del.icio.us best. I had a think. Why not post anything you find interesting to del.icio.us, then later on, review them and post the best of the bunch on…

Wednesday, 1 February, 2006

Links 1/2/06

Pinch, punch, first of the month. Seamonkey released The one that got away – Philip Cowley on Blair’s defeats last night. Mr Cowley was my tutor at university in Hull. How to Manage Your Draft Blog Posts Council mumbles Microsoft…

WordPress Upgrade Available

WordPress Development Blog › 2.0.1 Release Summary of changes: You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not. Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments. Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as…