Dave

John Naughton writes excellently every week for the Observer newspaper. Here is his article from last weekend, which focussed on a Tory party candidate’s use of Photoshop on a campaign photo. He explains issues and techniques in a very clear…

There are quite a few blogs popping up about the UK election on May 5. Many of them are used by news organisations to present more informal content. Here are a couple of links to the ones I look at.…

From The Guardian: A council has come up with a new way of disposing of abandoned cars – selling them on the internet. Westminster city council has auctioned a Range Rover on the UK online marketplace, eBay, with the vehicle…

Fascinating article in Saturday’s Guardian about the poet E.E. Cummings: EE Cummings became one of America’s most popular poets. But as a struggling young writer and artist, he was supported by a wealthy friend and soon found himself drawn to…

Palimpsest is the (mainly) books discussion site I founded with my friend Al Kitching a couple of years ago. Essentially a phpBB forum, it now has around 30 regular members and over 15,000 posts. We don’t delete any, the forum…

For those who visit the site rather than subscribing, you will notice a change in style. This is down to the upgrade to WordPress 1.5 which I have finally got round to putting into place. Will have a look at…

Just in case, er, someone, is interested, I was reading Aubade by Philip Larkin for the nth time last night, just before I went to bed. Here it is. I don’t think this will land me in any trouble, copyright…

Steven Streight asks What is the Killer App for Blogs? I wonder: has the killer app for blogs been realized yet? What implementation of blogging holds the greatest promise for the future? I really don’t think the perfect and ideal…

Interesting article on the BBC News site about blogging: Weblogs started off as a personal outpouring, a kind of digital diary. If you work on the basis that a problem shared is a problem halved, you can share with millions…

I have been away for a few days over the Easter weekend. Normal service will be resumed today, hopefully…

From the BBC: The dramatic rise in home internet access has failed to plug the communication gap between politicians and citizens, a new survey has found. The survey, commissioned by Telewest Business, found that only 1% of people have contacted…

From Scbole: Diego wants off of my link blog Diego doesn’t want me to republish his blog posts. So far he’s the third person to ask me to stop doing that on my linkblog. What do I do? Simply unsubscribe…

I’ve always wondered about this… UK professor concludes: cellphones don’t cause gas station fires Maybe MythBusters isn’t a solid enough scientific authority for Connecticut state senator Andreas Stillman, who wants to ban the use of cellphones when you’re filling up…

Some good advice from Susan Mernit: How to grow your (blogging) audience The traffic to this blog has gone up in the past three months, and it’s surely at least in part a result of some things I consciously put…

My link blog has now moved to Blogger. This is so I can use BlogJet to dump stuff to it quickly and easily – something I couldn’t do with the BlogLines blog.

This might be useful and worth checking out, from Renee Blodgett Blogzine launches, which is New Communications Forum’s new bi-monthly online publication dedicated to exploring new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, (including blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, search…

Quite a few interesting posts by Steve Rubel on Micro Persuasion recently, which I am still catching up on. Folksonomies Turn Chaos Into Information eWeek: The new term “Folksonomy” has emerged to describe the potential for user-defined tags to organically develop…

Great result for Forest today.Link below from the Guardian. More to follow when I get back online. Championship round-up Championship: Sunderland went top with a win over Coventry, as Wigan could only draw against Nottingham Forest. I really can see…

I have been playing with Microsoft’s OneNote (guessed at URL) software. It’s huge for what is for me just a Notepad replacement! At the moment I am just using one of the many possible screens to record notes and URLs I might…

Jason Kottke writes on: My business influences As you may have noticed by reading the site in the past year, I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about companies…how they succeed, why they fail, how to approach them from a…