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links for 2006-02-16

Oldham 3-0 Nottm Forest Pathetic (tags: football forest) The Art of Creating a Community (tags: community) ANN: FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2 (Build 2.0.0.13) (tags: feeddemon rss) Guess what’s waiting… (tags: firefox google toolbar) Amazon plans music service to rival iPod…

Qumana

Well, this is my first post with Qumana (Version 3 beta 1), a free desktop offline blog post editor. It’s pretty cool, though I do have some issues with it. Feature wise, it does everything you would expect, offering a…

links for 2006-02-15

dPolls.com Wasn’t working at 9.00am this morning… (tags: web2.0 polls) Qumana blog editor and blogging tools Is this always free? Seems like a worthy competitor to Blogjet… (tags: blogging software) Measure Map (tags: blogging web2.0 google stats) Microsoft Monitor: What…

links for 2006-02-14

Common sense on free speech (tags: naughton free speech) From a garage studio in Yorkshire, Larkin speaks again (tags: larkin) Library Thing – keep your book records online (tags: web2.0 books rss)

de.icio.us daily post

I have been playing with the daily post setting on del.icio.us and tonight I’ll find out if it is going to work… Basically, the daily post spits out a post to your blog containing all the sites I linked to…

Links 13/2/06

Listable is a Web 2.0 thing for making tagged community lists. Hmm. They do have a rather nice list of Web 2.0 sites though. Dave Winer notices how slowly Gmail is recently. It’s a nightmare – think the Google Talk…

Wikis

I have needed a simple wiki solution for a little problem of mine, and I have found just what I was after. I just needed a page or two that could be easily edited for the handful of people who…

Weird Spam

This is the strangest bit of comment spam I think I have ever got: You are no way on the 300th page of Google – in fact, your on the first and number 2 for my search “successful blogging” –…

Recovered

after a particularly nasty bout of the winter vomit flu, which has obviously spread from the West Midlands to the Welsh borders. The few things I have read on the web recently have been posted to del.icio.us. I’ll try and…

Links 2/2/06

How to Make Wikipedia better Deliciousing – Scoble wonders how to use del.icio.us best. I had a think. Why not post anything you find interesting to del.icio.us, then later on, review them and post the best of the bunch on…

Links 1/2/06

Pinch, punch, first of the month. Seamonkey released The one that got away – Philip Cowley on Blair’s defeats last night. Mr Cowley was my tutor at university in Hull. How to Manage Your Draft Blog Posts Council mumbles Microsoft…

WordPress Upgrade Available

WordPress Development Blog › 2.0.1 Release Summary of changes: You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not. Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments. Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as…

Links 31/1/06

Ah, payday at last. December’s pay came before Christmas – this has been one hell of a long month. Blogs versus the NY Times in Google Graham Parsnip relaunched in blog form Jody Digger has started blogging recently The winds…

Readable Permalinks

I have now converted this site’s permalinks to a human readable format. This was one of those things I had thought would be really hard, so I kept putting it off. However, in WordPress 2 it’s really easy! Just go…

FeedDemon and del.icio.us

FeedDemon 2 has a cool little icon on each post you read to link to it in your del.icio.us archive. I’ve actually started to use this now for a few things. Here is the RSS feed, if you are interested.…

Scoble loses blog archive

Robert Scoble has an old blog hosted at UserLand, or rather had. It’s now gone. Oh, UserLand, where did my old blogs go? Yikes, the first couple of years of my blog are gone. UserLand took down those blogs. I…

Links 27/1/06

Ban Comic Sans grou.ps might be interesting, but is suffering from being dug at the moment. Google’s Anti-Spyware Project Flickr provides an RSS feed for comments on your photos – useful enough, as it means you don’t have to log…

News Round Up

Plenty going on this morning – Today kept my attention for the whole 2 hour journey… Blair apology to Soham parents Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised to the parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman for comments…