Dave

Dave

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links for 2006-10-16

Technophilia: Battle of the blog editors – Performancing versus w.bloggar – Lifehacker (tags: blogging tools) Tailrank – Top News for Today in Technology (tags: news aggregator RSS)

links for 2006-10-15

the billblog » IT and Modernisation: New Statesman roundtable (tags: government it project) Wallflower at the Web Party – New York Times (tags: myspace social friendster) Coding Horror: Opting Out of Linked In (tags: linkedin)

links for 2006-10-14

Memex 1.1 » uTube’s woes (tags: youtube google) Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Is Bleeding Traffic (tags: cnet traffic marketing) bbPress » bbPress 0.72 (tags: forums software wordpress) Google Gdrive Client Leaked (tags: gmail google storage online) Comment is…

D’oh!

The Google Toolbar for Firefox has a subscribe button for RSS feeds. You can choose your aggregator from a list. Google Reader isn’t on it…

links for 2006-10-13

Oliver Kamm: Creationism again Sensible comments on creationist views (tags: creationism evolution fundamentalism) Blog Juice Calculator – Text Link Ads (tags: blogging rss stats) 10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog (tags: blogging collaboration comments)

links for 2006-10-12

Sorry, but we can’t just pick and choose what to tolerate Sensible discussion of the muslim headscarf issue. (tags: liberalism islam democracy) Coghead Create your own web-based applications (tags: web2.0 software productivity online) I love Google Reader « Scobleizer (tags:…

Google Docs, and Zoho

What was Writely is now Google Docs. Sigh. They’ve combined it with the spreadsheet package, so they are available from the same screen – the homepage being effectively a file manager when you log in. One criticism of Google when…

The Games We Play

Spending a daft amount of time on my day off here. Nice flash versions of some classic arcade games, notably Space Invaders, Frogger and Asteriods. The same chap who did the PacMan port which is on my personalised Google page.

Aggregating RSS with WordPress

I have been working away recently on a little project to bring together all of the RSS feeds of members of Palimpsest, the discussion forum I maintain. I have used third party arrangements, like KickRSS and Suprglu in the past,…

links for 2006-10-10

Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tags: community online)

links for 2006-10-08

Pligg CMS Make your own Digg-style site (tags: digg cms opensource web2.0 software social web) Bloglines Has Lost its Way (tags: bloglines “google reader” rss)

The Long Mynd

We returned to the Long Mynd today, for a stroll. Also, we were road testing the new rucksack we bought with some vouchers we received for the wedding. We had an excellent time and the backpack was just what we…

links for 2006-10-07

Google Groups Google Groups gets a facelift – much needed! (tags: google Groups usenet forums)

links for 2006-10-03

Firefox Not Really Free? Interesting story about FireFox and copyrights (tags: firefox debian software copyright free)

Playing with Google

Have spent a little time playing with a couple of Google products which have changed since I last used them – both for the better. Firstly, Google Reader, which was rubbish before, and now is a lot better. As is…

Favourite Photos

I recently did what I have been meaning to do for a while, and created a Flickr set of my favourite photos (that I’ve taken). It’s a bit annoying that Flickr doesn’t give the set URLs a more human look, but…