Monday, 15 January, 2007

Drupal 5 released

The popular open source CMS Drupal released its latest version today. I’ve been using a release candidate version of the new release on a couple of sites-in-development for a few weeks now, and can confirm that it’s a huge improvement…

Microformats update

I wrote a bit about Microformats earlier this month, but it looks like they could get a real boost soon with the BBC taking using them for Radio 4 – presumably a move which, if successful, will be rolled out…

Thursday, 11 January, 2007

Chris G takes over Performancing

Congratulations to Chris Garrett on his appointment as CEO of Performancing. Good luck in the new job to him, and to Nick Wilson for his future plans… Technorati Tags: performancing, chris garrett, nick wilson

Tuesday, 9 January, 2007

links for 2007-01-09

Extend › Ideas (tags: wordpress) Extend › Kvetch! (tags: wordpress) Wetpaint MyBlogLog to Yahoo! (tags: mybloglog yahoo!)

MyBlogLog to Yahoo!

MyBlogLog is the cool site that lets you make communities out of the people that visit your website. We’re listed there, and if you are registered, you’ll probably be able to see your photo down the right-hand side of the…

Wetpaint

Wetpaint is a hosted wiki service – more like Wikia than PBwiki, in that it’s probably suited to community sites. The difference between Wetpaint and Wikia though, is that Wetpaint looks good. Mike Arrington and Zoli Erdos both mention it…

That was easy!

In the end, I just used the same theme as hyprtext, but changed a few things around. I like the look, but all the widgets I’m using might make the place look a little cluttered. Any feedback gratefully received…

Ch ch ch Changes

Things will be going a bit wobbly ’round these parts over the next day or two. Will be upgrading to 2.06 of WordPress, and sorting myself out with a new theme. Wish me luck!

Monday, 8 January, 2007

links for 2007-01-08

7 Things You Should Know About… (tags: technology education web2.0 podcasting wiki tools educause) Second Life Opens Up (tags: second life open source) Digital Dialogues – Home (tags: politics government blogging social media) habari – Google Code (tags: PHP blogging…

Digital Dialogues

Simon Dickson reports on Digital Dialogues, of which the DD website explains: The purpose of Digital Dialogues is to assess the capacity of ICT to support central government’s communication and consultation activity (principally with the public but also with internal…

Second Life Opens Up

Popular online world, Second Life, is entering into the world of open source, by releasing the code to the client application that allows users to access it. Says the Second Life blog, in a post entitled ‘Embracing the Inevitable’: At…

Sunday, 7 January, 2007

Counterize II

Counterize II is a cool WP plugin that allows you to track site stats within the WP dashboard. Nice and simple. Have installed it here and on hyprtext. [tags]wordpress, counterize, plugin[/tags]

Back again

Have been back online for a few weeks now, though much of my attention on local government and new media matter has been focussed on the IDeA Communities of Practice platform, run by Steve Dale. I’d recommend that anyone interested…

Saturday, 6 January, 2007

links for 2007-01-06

Zoho now imports ODP (tags: zoho odp openoffice.org) Performancing and PayPerPost Deal is Off (tags: performancing problogger payperpost) Building Online Communities » Interweb World (tags: blogs community forums online)

Friday, 5 January, 2007

Zoho now imports ODP

Just a quicky this one. Zoho Show will now let you upload ODP files. What are they? Well, it’s the open format that OpenOffice.org uses. As the Zoho blog says, With the current update, Zoho Show now has full OOo…

links for 2007-01-05

Terapad.com – Beyond Blogging (tags: blogging Blog platform) ODP support in Zoho Show (tags: zoho odp openoffice.org) PayPerPosts backs out (tags: performancing payperpost)