Dave

Dave

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links for 2008-03-05

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress | Performancing.com A liberal definition of ‘unique’ but useful nonetheless. (tags: advice blog blogging communications wordpress) Why should leaders blog? Brilliant stuff from Nick Booth (tags: blogging leaders podnosh) Show# 72: Big Ideas, Small…

TwitterNotes

TwitterNotes lets you post yourself notes using Twitter, just by prefixing the note with a ‘+’. Dead easy, and great from a mobile phone. There is even a mechanism for making private notes, and tagging them using the hashtags convention.

links for 2008-03-04

building a better BLOG Better Blog is a bloggers’ community built on the lovely Ning. (tags: blogging blogs collaboration communication community howto network ning)

BuddyPress

This looks very exciting. Thanks to Nick for the tip off. Edit: More via TechCrunch: It is easy to dismiss this as completely unnecessary given the abundance of social networks already out there, as well as application development platforms like…

I promise…

…not to write another blog post about blogging for a while. I do need another area of obsession though. Wikis? Social networks? Any other suggestions?

It’s Not Just the Blog

As part of some notes I have been putting together for getting started with blogging, I’ve written about some of the other services that it might be a good idea to register with, in addition to your blog: No blog…

Who are you blogging for?

A key consideration for a blogger is who the blog is being written for. I am going to try my best throughout this post not to use the word ‘audience’, because the people that read blogs are more than that,…

links for 2008-03-03

Circuit Rider 4.0 Conference Round Up Laura’s roundup of the recent circuit riders’ conference. (tags: circuit+riders laura+whitehead) Still a journey for social media Neville Hobson gives some pretty depressing figures on social media usage in the UK. (tags: research socialmedia)…

links for 2008-03-02

7 Great Online Image Editing Apps Nice roundup from Mashable (tags: tools online photo editing web free) Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating…

I have PageRank at last!

Pleased to see that at last this blog registers something on Google’s toolbar for PageRank – 4/10 which isn’t too bad. Much better than nothing at all, anyway!

Future of the cloud

Interesting column from John Naughton in today’s Observer on the potential issues of an increased focus on ‘cloud computing’ ie using online services like Google Docs, etc. Firstly he talks about the recent outages in Asia caused by the Pakistani…

links for 2008-03-01

NewsFire (for Mac OS X) This Mac RSS reader is now free. Competition for NetNewsWire, possibly? (tags: rss mac software reader)

What Google Apps Does

I’ve written a couple of posts about Google Sites over the last couple of days, and in summary: I really like it. I have spotted a few posts about complaining that this isn’t a service that’s available to those with…

Mec Puck Z

…is the name of the artistic creation that young Master DavePress produced using the graphics tablet just now. He has given it the title ‘Mec Puck Z’. Don’t ask, I didn’t dare. (Warning: it’s a pretty big download!) I am…

New toy

On the way home from work last night I bought myself a little treat: It’s a Wacom Bamboo 1 graphics tablet – just the basic model for playing with. One of the things I will start using it for is…

Playing with Google Sites

Huzzah! Google Sites has finally been added to my Google Apps account, which means I can start playing. I’ve created a test wiki here, whicha anyone can view, but if you want to have a go at editing it, you’ll…

links for 2008-02-29

SocialEngine PHP – Build your own unique social network! Interesting looking white label social network software. (tags: php socialnetworking network socialsoftware tools community)