Month May 2007

Virtual Communities

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…

Creating Communities

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…

Free as in Beer

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

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…

My Telegraph

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…

What’s the point?

…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…

Blogging Tip #7 – Looking good

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.…

Blogging Tip #6 – Keep notes

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.…