Wednesday, 9 January, 2008

Help! WordPress tag clouds

My tag cloud (on the right of the screen on my blog’s homepage) is a complete mess. I need to edit the font sizes used, and maybe limit the cloud to tags which are used more than once, say. I…

Open source is best

Simon Dickson muses on the advantages of using open source platforms, as opposed to proprietary ones, in the light of the Interesource debacle. It’s funny. Not so long ago, the question was ‘why should I be using open source?’ Increasingly,…

Newsgator RSS apps now free!

The Newsgator family of desktop RSS applications are now available for download free of charge! This is great news, and I would heartily recommend that anyone who hasn’t tried it before gives the Windows application, FeedDemon, a try. I have…

The ‘Lazysphere’?

Steve Rubel has posted about "The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging". Somewhere circa 2006 the tech blogger mindset shifted – at least among the majority. People who used to work hard creating and spreading big ideas resorted to…

barcampUKGovWeb hotting up

Jeremy Gould has been hard at work getting the barcamp for UK Government web types sorted out. We’ve got a venue – the Google offices in London. Cool. All the details are on the wiki and Jeremy’s blog. The Google…

links for 2008-01-09

Big Think – We Are What You Think The thinking man (or woman)’s YouTube. (tags: video ideas politics academic) Search Wikia: Not Even A Remote Threat To Google SearchEngineLand’s take on Search Wikia (tags: search wikia searchengineland) ReadBurner | Public…

The Innocents

Just finished watching The Innocents, the 1961 film based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Here‘s the IMDB link to find out more, or there’s always Wikipedia. It really is one of the scariest things I think I…

Tuesday, 8 January, 2008

links for 2008-01-08

Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown. Michael Arrington trashes the alpha launch of Wikia Search, the ‘human powered search engine’. (tags: search wikia) Wikia Search – Miles Behind the Competition Mashable’s view on Wikia Search (tags: google mahalo search wikia)…

Monday, 7 January, 2008

Wikia Search Launches

There has been a flurry of largely negative postings about the newly launched alpha of Wikia Search – Jimmy Wales’ human powered search engine. I’ve bookmarked quite a few at del.icio.us, which will pop up on this blog around midnight…

A grand day out

Had a lovely day yesterday in the glorious sunshine. We visited the Suffolk coast, at Dunwich Heath and Southwold, and had a marvelous time. Here’s some photographic evidence. There’s more, should you want it, on my Flickrstream.