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How to write an ebook

Seth Godin has put a Squidoo lens together on writing ebooks. It contains some excellent advice: Write something worth reading! Put it into Word or a similar word processor. Change your page layout to wide. Even better, change your page…

How to write an ebook

Seth Godin has put a Squidoo lens together on writing ebooks. It contains some excellent advice: Write something worth reading! Put it into Word or a similar word processor. Change your page layout to wide. Even better, change your page…

Yahoo! Mail has unlimited storage

TechCrunch announces that Yahoo! Mail now offers unlimited storage – obviously a better deal than Gmail’s 2.8–odd gb. One feature beaten – now all Yahoo! have to do is get rid of the horrible graphical adverts, allow pop access to…

LGKnowledge

I launched the latest project under the LGNewMedia banner yesterday, a social bookmarking site for local government called LGKnowledge. It’s based on Pligg and works just fine – the only issue will be getting enough people using it to make…

Announcing LGKnowledge

I’m pretty excited about this. LGKnowledge is a new site I’ve developed to try and provide a solution to the problems that search engines produce, which I discussed in this post. In a nutshell, that problem is that search engines – even targetted ones…

What I Use

I thought it might be of use to people as an introduction to social media tools if I produced a list of some of the stuff I use on a regular basis. So here goes. I use FeedDemon to read…

Scribd

Scribd is a cool service which acts as a YouTube for documents. To quote their FAQs: Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a…

LGNews

As I haven’t posted for a little while I thought I may as well mention the little site I was working on last wekk, LGNews. It’s a WordPress installation that aggregates various news feeds. To be honest, I don’t like…

The Growing Search Space

Couple of search related stories here, following my recent posting on whether or not search is broken. Mike Arrington announces that Euekster have managed to grab $5.5 million in funding. One of their products is a system for creating site specific…