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Anonymous contributions

Jeremy Gould – barcamp impresario, Ministry of Justice web dude and blogger – raises the issue of anonymous contributions, both within blogs and comments on other blogs: I was thinking about this last week when I came across a new…

links for 2008-02-02

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine I’m looking to give DavePress a redesign – plenty of options here! (tags: wordpress themes design webdesign blog theme css free)

links for 2008-02-01

For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report Latest episode of FIR with an interview with me about barcampukgovweb. Hopefully it went ok… (tags: barcampukgovweb podcast fir) Give Powerpoint the Bullet. Do something interesting instead Great notes on planning and…

For Immediate Release

For Immediate Release is one of my favourite podcasts, which has Shel Holtz, Neville Hobson and a host of other contributors talking social media, web 2.0 and how it affects public relations and business communications. It’s good stuff. Yesterday, Neville…

Microsoft/Yahoo! Roundup

Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been reading around the web about the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo! There’s some interesting commentary out there. Jeff Jarvis at Guardian Unlimited: This is just as well for Yahoo, which had no strategy,…

New Wales Office Website

Thanks to Simon Dickson, the Welsh Wales Office website has had a real facelift. It looks really good, nice and clean layout and a smart news layout. Simon covers it all in more detail on his blog. And the best…

Microsoft to buy Yahoo!?

Wow, major news breaking on the horizon. Microsoft have offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has played a pioneering role by building…

Flocking

On the advice of David Wilcox, I am giving Flock a go on my MacBook. Not because I am unhappy with FireFox, but more to see if it resolves some of the issues I have with NetNewsWire and the various…

links for 2008-01-31

Research study suggests ‘Google Generation’ is, er, not very good at (re)search A new study overturns the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation’ – youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most web-literate. (tags: john+naughton…

Finding Mac Software

I am trying to find all the software I need to make my Macbook as useful to me as my Vista laptop is. Obviously some things are made much easier, like making Skype calls (no longer any requirement for a…