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On RSS Aggregators

I have just been playing with Bloglines this morning – it has been a while since I looked at it, as I have been doing all on online RSSing in Newsgator of late, because the sync with FeedDemon is so…

Performancing: 10 Tips for More Blog Traffic

The Performancing blog is a useful resource for bloggers, often with some good advice. This selection of tips includes some interesting stuff. Here’s the first 5 as a taster: Claim your blog at services like Technorati. Fill in all keywords…

YouOS

YouOS, an online “operating system” looks really interesting. You register, then load it up in your browser. It’s best to maximise the browser window as much as you can. I’m at work, so am stuck with IE. They describe the system…

links for 2006-03-16

Pacman appears on Google Maps (tags: google maps pacman) E-Mail Icon Generator (tags: email free blogging)

IRows

IRows is an online spreadsheet, a competitor with NumSum, in other words. One of the criticisms I have always had with NumSum is that it is just so damn ugly. Not something that IRows can be accused of, which is…

Akismet

I just activated the Akismet anti-blog comment spam plug-in. Let’s see how well it works – I am not being flooded with spam right at the moment because this blog is so new. We’ll see how it goes. I am pretty…

Cool WordPress blog

Lorelle on WordPress is a great blog for people who use the universe’s greatest blogging app. Her last two posts are both pretty interesting and I’m going to investigate them both a bit further: Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin Update…

links for 2006-03-14

IRows – online spreadsheets (tags: web2.0 office spreadsheets) Google Love/ Hate Relationships (tags: google) New Met blogging rules spark anger (tags: blogging) Performancing Metrics is Here! | Performancing Site (tags: blogging free performancing software stats web2.0)

links for 2006-03-13

‘Root’ Password Readable on Ubuntu (tags: ubuntu linux security) Ditching TypePad to Movable Type to WordPress | Performancing Site sanity prevails (tags: wordpress typepad blogging) BlogJet – Blog – Tip: Changing BlogJet This! Template (tags: blogging blogjet) Google Mars (tags:…

K2

K2 seems like a really interesting theme for WordPress. It is still in beta at the moment, but I have installed on World of Dave just to see how it works and looks. I actually really like the feel of…

links for 2006-03-12

The significance of the Writely acquisitiion (tags: writely google naughton) WordPress 2.0.2 Security Release (tags: blogging wordpress) Ditching WordPress for TypePad The act of a madman (tags: wordpress blogging) Why Dont You…Blog? » Computer Magazine Cover Disks (tags: software) Beta…

What I use (at the moment)

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the applications I use on a regular basis. This was obviously on the Windows laptop I am using right now. This is going to change in a major way pretty soon, when I…

The Changes

So, what made me want to change things round? Well, there have been, or are going to be, several changes to the way I am doing things generally, IT-wise. One thing is that I really wanted to move away from…

New sites and feeds

Right, so I have put in place the new blogs. The tech blog, which is what most people will be interested in, is now at and the feed is The ‘personal’ blog is at /worldofdave and the feed…

First past the post

Here’s the first post, taking over from where davebriggs.net left off. Well, some of it. This is where I am going to be doing all of the tech stuff I used to write about – in other words, most of…

The end of an era, kind of…

You may have noticed a complete lack of action on this blog of late. That’s partially because of life getting in the way, but more a case of me planning to move away from it. I am going to be…