Tuesday, 31 October, 2006

links for 2006-10-31

Le Monde moves to WordPress (tags: blogging wordpress lemonde) Home – Spin Thicket (tags: pr marketing media) Main Articles: ‘Wiki or Won’t He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis’, Ariadne Issue 49 (tags: public sector wiki) WP.com Video « WordPress.com…

NaNoWriMo: Quietness ahead?

So, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. This means I am going to have to cut back a little, and so it’s likely to be my del.icio.us daily posting only for a little while. This is a bit of shame as there is…

FeedDemon thoughts

Been using the FeedDemon 2.1 Beta3 for a while now. Here’s a couple of thoughts: Each blog post has a link to post it to del.icio.us, it’s been there for a couple of versions now. But if I click a…

Google buys JotSpot

JotSpot has been purchased by Google, according to the official Google blog: OK, I can finally blurt it out: JotSpot is now part of Google, and I couldn’t be more excited. Three years ago my friend Graham Spencer and I…

Monday, 30 October, 2006

links for 2006-10-30

Get organized with GTDTiddlyWiki (tags: GTD wiki free) PayPerPost Is Now Officially Absurd (tags: blogging payperpost techcrunch) Backlash Against Crayon’s Second Life Launch (tags: second life crayon) Some stats on “MySpace is so last year” (tags: myspace wsj) Digg Destroys…

Sunday, 29 October, 2006

NaNoWriMo

Am going to give NaNoWriMo a go this year. I’ve some time off in November, which will give me a chance to catch up if I fall behind. Last year, Palimpsest attempted a joint version, which didn’t quite go to…

Banning Conference Blogging

Steve Rubel and John Naughton both link to a story from Greg Verdino about the Nielsen BuzzMetric conference, which has banned delegates from blogging about the event. There’s more here from David Armano. The subject covered by the conference? Consumer…

Friday, 27 October, 2006

Thursday, 26 October, 2006

links for 2006-10-26

The story of Tetris (kottke.org) (tags: kottke tetris games tv) Vox (tags: blogging blogs web2.0 sixapart vox) Oracle drops bomb on Red Hat’s Linux business (tags: oracle red hat linux)

Wednesday, 25 October, 2006

links for 2006-10-25

How to Be a Great Host (tags: forums) The Question Time solution (tags: politics tv question time) The Wonderful World of WordPress Products (tags: wordpress blogging) Toufee flash movie maker – Make flash movies in seconds! (tags: flash tools video…

Tuesday, 24 October, 2006

links for 2006-10-24

I Agree With Nick Carr? On the Lessig YouTube post… (tags: youtube lessig copyright) Microsoft’s big nightmare: free online apps (tags: Web2.0 internet browser os) Google Co-op (tags: google coop custom search) So I signed up for PayPerPost (tags: payperpost…

Dialectic

Strange times at the moment. Yesterday I went to the doctors to try and get my sore throat sorted out – I’ve had it for about a month now. When I left, I had diabetes. Everyone has been cool so…

Monday, 23 October, 2006

links for 2006-10-23

Google News a Step Closer to Integrating Blogs (tags: blogging google news) Broken Kode | Manji (tags: wordpress theme) Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article… (tags: presentation tips advice powerpoint) Read More Blogs « BlogSmart (tags: blogs…

Sunday, 22 October, 2006

Firefox oddness

Am running the recently v2 of FireFox, only this strange thing is happening at the moment, a weird beige strip between the title and the menu bar, using up screen estate and generally being annoying… Tags: firefox

Saturday, 21 October, 2006

links for 2006-10-21

Edelman’s fall from blogosphere grace (tags: blogging edelman) Paint.NET (tags: free photos graphics software)

Death of an iPod, Pressies

My iPod has gone wrong. For some reason, it refuses to update with new songs and podcasts. So, I need a replacement. But do I spend 300 odd quid on a new iPod, or look to another solution – because…

Gmail Attachments and Google Docs

Interesting post on Google Operating System blog: If Gmail were integrated with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, it would have a new link next to some attachments that says “Import in Google Docs & Spreadsheets”. This way, you could edit these…