An online notebook
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An online notebook
Right, the virtual community is now live, kinda. You can find it at Be warned: it isn’t pretty. But prettiness can come later. So, the point of this site is to create a community platform using different social media…
Warning: mildly incoherent rambling ahead… I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently to what the best way of creating online communities are. This is partly Simon Dickson’s fault. Back in March, Simon wrote, in a post titled “Because you…
Thought it might be worth a quick plug of another little blog I write, called Free as in Beer. All I do is post a link and a quick description of a zero-cost bit of software. Why not have a…
VodPod is a really cool way of collecting and republishing video. The way it works is this: you create a pod, which is a library of video you have chosen as being particularly good, and then add to it using a…
Have no idea where this is from originally, it popped up in an RSS feed for a del.icio.us tag. Excellent stuff, though!
The Daily Telegraph have put together a great social element to their website – hosting user blogs at my.telegraph.co.uk. I have signed up and the interface is very nice and clean. There’s a social element too, where you can add…
Nice to see that Gordon Brown’s campaign site is running the latest version of WordPress… Thanks to Simon Collister for the link. Tags: gordon+brown, wordpress
…of this blog? To be honest, it’s turned into a bit of a mess. It’s useful to have if only because it makes a handy archive of all the various bits and pieces I have written since I started blogging…
Presentation is the key to tip #7. This applies to both the appearance of your blog site as well as the standard of your writing. Picking up the latter point first, I think a good standard of writing is vital.…
Number 6 out of the 10 tips on blogging is on keeping notes. Writing blog posts that are interesting and well-informed isn’t easy. Sitting down in front of your blog editor waiting for an idea to come is pretty hard.…