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CoComment

At some point in the near future, I promise that I will blog about something other than blog comments. I mean, I know it’s good to find a niche, but that one is a little specific even for me. Anyhow,…

More on comments

Following my last post about blog comments, a couple of posts have popped up in my feed reader about the topic. Firstly James Cridland ponders what makes him decide to leave a comment on a blog, or use his own…

Everyone needs a Dave

…including me. Jeremy Gould points us towards his latest bit of furniture – the ‘Dave‘: It’s a pretty handy looking laptop table, and only twenty quid from Ikea. Face it – every home should have a Dave.

On blog comments

How do you track the conversations that go on in comments around the blogosphere? It’s easy enough to know what the actual blogs themselves are doing, after all – we have our feed readers, Google’s blog search and technorati. We…

Polling day

Every day, WordPress and the community around it manages to surprise and delight me more. I have mentioned how it can be used to consult before, specifically by using the amazing CommentPress theme. But you can also create small polls…

barcampukgovweb Developments

The community that formed around the barcamp for uk gov web types (hence the name) has been working hard to start developing idea and connections that can start to have a real beneficial effect on the way that public services…

links for 2008-02-07

Google Spreadsheet Surveys Use Google Docs to run public surveys and consultations. Cool! (tags: survey tools interactive google) SurveyGizmo: WordPress Survey Plugin – Online Survey Tool Plugin that allows you to run surverys inside WP (tags: wordpress plugin survey plugins)…

WordPress is a platform

Simon Dickson points to a new theme that turns WordPress into a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. This confirms to me something that I have been thinking for a while that WordPress is no longer a blogging system, nor a…

Redesigning DavePress

I have been wanting to give this blog a redesign almost ever since I started it. For some reason I just haven’t taken to the Mandigo theme I was using – a bit dark, maybe? I do think that darker…