An online notebook
Tom Foremski over at Silicon Vallery Watcher points out the things that annoy him about search: – There are many publishers that try to make sure their headlines catch the attention of the search engines rather than catch the attention of readers. The same is true for content, editors increasingly optimize it for the search … Keep reading
Feedable is a nice online news aggregator. As well as having your own feeds, it also provides information on hot topics of conversation in a variety of subjects. Thanks to Steve Rubel for pointing it out. Tags: feedable, steve+rubel
Hmmm. FeedDemon has starting playing up all of a sudden. It claimed not to be able to connect to my NewsGator account a couple of times, despite the credentials being correct, and refused to do anything. So, I removed the sync between the two and gave it another go. Now all sorts of old feeds … Keep reading
Thanks to Steve Dale for pointing me in the direction of Blueberry Software and their BB Flashback range of screencasting tools. Steve has just finished a screencast of the IDeA’s Communities of Practice platform using the full blown version of BB Flashback. At £99, that’s too steep for me. But I am trialling the ‘Express’ … Keep reading
I’ve started a new page on the LGNewMedia wiki, called the Local Government Blogger Directory. I’m working from a pretty liberal definition of what ‘local government’ means so feel free to chuck in anything that comes even close to the LGNewMedia sphere of interest!