Monday, 30 June, 2008

Posterous

Posterous is the easiest blogging platform in the world to use. No, really. All you have to do to get started is to send an email to post@posterous.com – no signup needed to begin with. I have given it a…

Flipping ‘eck

I gave in on Saturday, and bought myself one of these beauties: The quality of the recorded video is pretty high, better than your average mobile phone, I’d say – and certainly better than my iPhone which doesn’t do video…

Thing are coming 2gether

I am looking forward to the 2gether festival this Wednesday and Thursday, lots of cool people coming, and lots of exciting sessions to attend. You can find out more at the event’s blog, or by looking around the associated social…

links for 2008-06-29

BBC NEWS | UK | Councils launch charm offensive Council chiefs are reminding voters of the work they do, using images including a drunk girl vomiting in the street and a dog fouling a park. (tags: councils localgovuk news communications…

Sunday, 29 June, 2008

Derek Wyatt TV

Derek Wyatt, member of parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, has a rather nice site bringing together all his questions in Parliament on video. What a great idea! A shame, though, that clicking on the thumbnails of the videos produces some…

Go Home, Bill

Robert X Cringely on Bill Gates’ retirement: If we were to place the importance of Bill Gates in the history of both Microsoft and the personal computer industry he’d be up there with most anyone. I’m not here to claim…

Friday, 27 June, 2008

Civil servants, blogs and anonymity

Back onto one of my favourite subjects: bloggers’ anonymity. There’s plenty of background here. Paul Johnston wrote in the comments: Great to see this upswing in civil servant blogging, but quite understandably they seem to be anonymous. Very understandable in…

Thursday, 26 June, 2008

WordCamp UK

WordCamps are fairly unorganised events for lovers of the best blogging platform, like, eva: WordPress. The first one in the UK is taking place in Birmingham next month, and it’s going to be great. Get a ticket here. Even better…

Who’s left blogging?

Charlie Beckett writes entertainingly about the state of the presence of the political left in the UK blogosphere: The Online Socialists have various problems. No-one reads them. Guido Fawkes and his wicked Right-wing pals are far more entertaining and they…