Dave

Mike Arrington has opened up a storm of a debate over at TechCrunch, criticising the official Google blog for not allowing comments. He’s picking the issue up from a post by Zoli Erdos. He asks Is a blog really a…

Just had the chance to get some new photos up on my Flickr account. Here’s a view of the flooding we had in Llansantffraid earlier this month: This is St. Bridget’s church in the village (Llansantffraid means ‘Church of St.…

Hugh McCleod: I am no longer interested in being a “professional blogger”, whatever that means. I like blogs, blogging and bloggers, but I think we’re in “post-revolution” times now. The train has already left the station. If you managed to…

I’ve been using Peformancing for FireFox, shortly to be rebranded as ScribeFire, for my last few posts on hyprtext, and my initial impressions are pretty good. It certainly fills the gap left when my switch to Ubuntu meant I could…

It looks like there will soon be a new contender in the hosted blog platform sphere. Blogsmith, the engine which was designed to run Weblogs Inc, Jason Calacanis‘ early blog network which was subsequently bought up by AOL. WordPress seems…

Here’s the pathetic list of books I managed to read this year. Excuses: new job, wedding, house move. 11. The Prone Gunman – Jean-Patrick Manchette10. He Died With His Eyes Open – Derek Raymond9. The Damned United – David Peace8.…

I want to watch this video in FireFox on Ubuntu. Anyone know how I can? Technorati Tags: scobleshow, sam sethi, quicktime, ubuntu

There has been much discussion of late about Google’s antics in providing ‘tips’ at the top of searches. For example, try running a search on the word ‘blogging‘. What’s that, just under the sponsored links? A tip telling us to…

I wrote a couple of days ago about the purchase of Performancing Metrics by PayPerPost. The Performancing blog editor and advertising partnership programme were to be continued by the same team under different banners. Well, the blog editor is now…

PayPerPost, the people who line up advertisers to pay bloggers to write nicely about their products, have bought Performancing.com – specifically the website and the Metrics system. Performancing for FireFox and the Performancing Partners advertising programme will continue under a…

Finally have Ubuntu talking to the internet! Woo-hoo! [tags]ubuntu, linux[/tags]

Jimmy Wales is planning a search engine with Amazon. I’ve written more over at Hyprtext.