An online notebook
An online notebook
Some news from the ColaLife campaign… as part of the submission to Google for the 10^100 competition, a 30 second video has been created. And it’s lovely: [HTML1] Please visit the YouTube page and mark the video as a favourite,…
John Naughton‘s Observer column on ten years of blogging is a delightful read: This openness to immediate criticism and/or rebuttal is another revolutionary aspect of blogging. What we are seeing, wrote Clay Shirky some years ago (available online at ),…
Simon Wakeman poses a potentially controversial question on his blog: One idea that’s been playing on my mind for the past few days is whether a council needs a website at all. Initially this might seem like complete heresy. Surely…
Akismet is a plugin for WordPress (and a few other platforms) which helps combat the problem of comment spam. That when ne’erdowells come on your blog and post nonsense comments in the hope pick click the links in them to…
Stuff I have bookmarked for October 15th through October 16th: Cumbrian Newspapers Group boosts hyperlocal websites – "Independent regional publisher Cumbrian Newspapers Group is rolling out a series of interactive websites to allow community group to create their own pages…
Whilst technically all you need is a blog and a browser to start blogging, there are some other bits of software you can use that make your life a little easier. Here’s a list of options for Mac users: 1.…
Amy Sample Ward has already arranged the first meeting of the London Net Tuesday group, which you can find out all about at Meetup.com. For the pathologically click-lazy, it’s on November 4th at the Charity Technology Trust. Here’s the official…
Twitter is quite a nice way into online publishing. It’s quick and easy to both contribute to, listen to others and expand your network of readers. However, I can imagine that, for quite lot of people, just using Twitter could…
A few new pages have been created on the Digital Mentor wiki which are screaming out for content to be added, and it’s really easy to do so! All you have to do to add to the wiki is click…
Matt Mullenweg, the irritatingly youthful founder of WordPress, has announced that his company, Automattic, have purchased the internet polling service PollDaddy, and immediately integrated in into WordPress.com and made a plugin available for self-hosted WordPressers. I took a secret trip…