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On my Vista-running laptop, I had FeedDemon installed, a super desktop based RSS aggregator. I’ve always been more comfortable using this type of app as opposed to a web based solution like Google Reader or Bloglines. When I don’t have…
Now, this is depressing news. Brace yourselves. I downloaded and installed the Google toolbar this evening, just so I could check the PageRank of my site. Yeah, I know there are third party sites out there that do the same…
John Naughton had a request from a friend for an alternative to MS Word on a Mac. John pointed him in the direction of TextEdit (Windows users, think WordPad), which comes built into OSX. One issue with this was the…
Jeremy Gould – barcamp impresario, Ministry of Justice web dude and blogger – raises the issue of anonymous contributions, both within blogs and comments on other blogs: I was thinking about this last week when I came across a new…
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine I’m looking to give DavePress a redesign – plenty of options here! (tags: wordpress themes design webdesign blog theme css free)
For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report Latest episode of FIR with an interview with me about barcampukgovweb. Hopefully it went ok… (tags: barcampukgovweb podcast fir) Give Powerpoint the Bullet. Do something interesting instead Great notes on planning and…
For Immediate Release is one of my favourite podcasts, which has Shel Holtz, Neville Hobson and a host of other contributors talking social media, web 2.0 and how it affects public relations and business communications. It’s good stuff. Yesterday, Neville…
Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been reading around the web about the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo! There’s some interesting commentary out there. Jeff Jarvis at Guardian Unlimited: This is just as well for Yahoo, which had no strategy,…
Thanks to Simon Dickson, the Welsh Wales Office website has had a real facelift. It looks really good, nice and clean layout and a smart news layout. Simon covers it all in more detail on his blog. And the best…
Wow, major news breaking on the horizon. Microsoft have offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has played a pioneering role by building…
On the advice of David Wilcox, I am giving Flock a go on my MacBook. Not because I am unhappy with FireFox, but more to see if it resolves some of the issues I have with NetNewsWire and the various…
Research study suggests ‘Google Generation’ is, er, not very good at (re)search A new study overturns the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation’ – youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most web-literate. (tags: john+naughton…
I am trying to find all the software I need to make my Macbook as useful to me as my Vista laptop is. Obviously some things are made much easier, like making Skype calls (no longer any requirement for a…
Have taken the day off work for a trip to London tomorrow to visit Lloyd Davis‘ Tuttle Club, or London Social Media Cafe. It’s going through an itinerant stage at the moment, finding a home wherever there are willing hosts…
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people reading this blog that Google provides a number of services other than their traditional business area of web search. Many of the tools can be used as part of an online…
…seems to be completely knackered today.
Dissident: UKGovWeb barcamp event roundup. Steve Dale’s barcamp write-up (tags: barcampukgovweb steve+dale)
Yes, for the first time in my life, I have bought a Mac – to be precise, a MacBook with 2.2Ghz, 120gb hard disk and a paltry 1gb RAM. That will be the first thing to be resolved, I reckon,…
Yay for Created in Birmingham! A joint Guardian Media Innovation Award Congratulations to Created in Birmingham! (tags: createdinbirmingham birminghamuk guardian) Quick, Easy and Fun – BarCampUKGovweb Shane McCracken from Gallomanor on the barcampukgovweb (tags: barcampukgovweb gallomanor) 11 Power Tips for…
Completely unrelated to the Google UK-hosted barcampukgovweb, I’m sure, but Google have launched a dedicated UK politics site, with lots of UK politics related widgets for your iGoogle page, and a YouTube channel. One of the widgets available is based…