Dave

The first major update has been made to LGSearch, the now-inaccurately described local government search engine. The sites for central government departments have now been added. You can find a list of the sites included on the LGSearch project page…

I’ve changed things around quite a bit on this blog, partly in an attempt to force myself to update it a little more often. I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, 2.1, which does various things in a much…

From Google Reader’s trends feature: From your 238 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,827 items, starred 0 items, and shared 56 items And I had the weekend off entirely… I try to remember to share the stuff…

Quite interesting chat between Stephen Fry and Tony Blair here.

When, oh when, will Steve McClaren, or whoever else is managing England, learn? Square pegs, round holes. Square pegs, round holes. Square pegs, ro… you get the picture. Picking Ben Foster and Jonathan Woodgate was good. Picking Phil Neville at…

The theme I am using on this site at the moment, Fjords01!, is beatiful. But for some reason the CSS makes italics (through the em tag) appear like this. Until I get round to changing the stylesheet, I am having…

Despite being an avid reader of RSS feeds – not just from blogs, but other sites like newspapers, and other new organisations – I still get a newspaper every day. I guess this runs somewhat contrary to the idea that…

Charlie Brooker, TV reviewing god, has a pop at the ‘I’m a Mac’ ad campaign with his usual savagery: The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign – the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They…

Penguin, the publishers, have unleashed a cool idea: a novel written on a wiki. There’s a blog just for the project, too. Great that they are using open source tools: WordPress and MediaWiki. The main Penguin blog (Typepad, boo) notes…

Robert Scoble has enraged many in the blogosphere by accepting an invitation to speak to a conference organised and sponsored by PayPerPost – everyone’s most hated blog-related company. I know this conference will be controversial — one way to get…

I really couldn’t think of a better pair than Mitchell and Webb to do the Mac and PC thing for the Apple adverts. Still, they’re a bit annoying. The ads, I mean, not Mitchell and Webb. All this stuff about…

Zoho Notebook looks like yet another very cool web app – they don’t seem to be putting a step wrong at the moment. It’s in private alpha at the moment – Hopefully I will soon get in for a play…

Visitors to my blog site, rather than just RSS readers, will have noticed a slight change on the right hand side of the site this evening – the archives and categories have just got a lot bigger! This is because…

Steve Rubel asks why it is that not many blogging and other social media platforms allow commenters to edit or delete the comments they make on community based sites. Everyone sticks their foot in it from time to time. If…

Great post by Sam Sethi at Vecosys on Google and attention: For the last two years I have been tracking a terminology called attention metadata. About 12 months ago some friends and I became really excited about the possibilities of…

Amazon have launched a new site, Amapedia, which is a wiki for products. Nice idea. Effectively, it gives people a chance to write about the stuff they like which can be bought from Amazon. I guess that means writing about…

…then imagine how bad things are in the states. From The Guardian: The Democratic senator, Barack Obama, has launched an aggressive counter-attack against rumours that he is a Muslim and was educated at a madrasa in Indonesia…Mr Obama’s spokesman said…

The Web 2.0 Company Name Generator is a cool and amusing little site. As the site says: Need a name for your Web 2.0 company? Try this handy name generator. Here’s some that I got: ZoomworksBuzzfishFlashdogThoughttuneQuambeeFlashcatNpathSkambaChatterpulseQuimia That last one is…