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Regeneration

Am currently reading Pat Barker’s Regeneration, all about Siegdried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and other fictional soldiers recovering at Craiglockhart War Hospital during WW1. I must admit to, shamefully, not knowing an awful lot about the ‘great’ war before reading Oxford…

links for 2008-01-12

Sharpfolio: WordPress Portfolio Theme — WebRevolutionary Nice wordpress theme (tags: wordpress theme) Why Use a Desktop RSS Reader? Nick Bradbury argues the case for desktop based RSS readers like his very own FeedDemon. I think he’s right. (tags: article comparison…

Online collaboration does work

Despite now working in further education, I’m still involved in the predominantly local government based Communities of Practice social online collaboration platform, which is developed by the Improvement & Development Agency. For a quick run through of the whys, whats,…

Best British football ground…

…is of course the home of the mighty Reds, at least according to The Guardian: 1) The City Ground, 1935 – present Why on earth Nottingham Forest’s board want to move away from the City Ground is be££££££££££££££££££££££yond m£££££££££y k£££££££££££££££££££££en,…

10 Cool WordPress themes

One of the many reasons why WordPress is such a super publishing platform are the many themes which are freely available to give your site a professional look and feel. 1. Envy – WPDesigner.com Envy is a bold and bright…

A sense of place

The Birmingham Bloggers meet last night went well, with a good turnout and some exceptionally high-quality discussions on a variety of topics. I found myself burning up with jealously a couple of times as people talked about the exciting projects…

FeedDemon 2.6 problem

There’s a bug with FeedDemon 2.6, I think. Whenever I click the little orange RSS icon on the FireFox address bar to subscribe to a new blog, it tries to open a new FeedDemon window. Every. Single. Time. This is…

links for 2008-01-11

Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond – ReadWriteWeb Interesting arguments. (tags: socialmedia web2.0 social collaboration blogging socialnetworking) Bloke finds missus working in brothel | The Register Oh my lord. (tags: brothel shock! horror!)

WordPress is taking over

Neville Hobson reports on the new site for BA’s new airline. And guess what? It’s running on WordPress. More and more, public bodies and corporations are moving towards WordPress as a lightweight, flexible and powerful way of establishing a social…