Amazon launches Amapedia
Amazon have launched a new site, Amapedia, which is a wiki for products. Nice idea. Effectively, it gives people a chance to write about the stuff they like which can be bought from Amazon. I guess that means writing about…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
If British politics is bad…
…then imagine how bad things are in the states. From The Guardian: The Democratic senator, Barack Obama, has launched an aggressive counter-attack against rumours that he is a Muslim and was educated at a madrasa in Indonesia…Mr Obama’s spokesman said…
Need a Web 2.0 Name?
The Web 2.0 Company Name Generator is a cool and amusing little site. As the site says: Need a name for your Web 2.0 company? Try this handy name generator. Here’s some that I got: ZoomworksBuzzfishFlashdogThoughttuneQuambeeFlashcatNpathSkambaChatterpulseQuimia That last one is…
Link posts
Since the death of the previous blog, I cancelled the regular posting of my daily del.icio.us links. When I set it up I thought it would be an interesting reminder for me of the stuff I thought was worth reading,…
LGSearch Stats
Google’s Coop cusomised search engine now provides usage statistics. This is undoubtably a Good Thing. My customised search engine is LGSearch, one which searches local government websites. Sounds dull, but when you work for in local government, it’s useful. Obviously…
Google Coop Stats
Google’s Coop cusomised search engine now provides usage statistics. This is undoubtably a Good Thing. My customised search engine is LGSearch, one which searches local government websites. Sounds dull, but when you work for in local government, it’s useful. Obviously…
Essential Blogger Tools
Via the 901am blog, I came across a post on Kineda outlining the tools every blogger should have: You’ve started your blog and you’re up and running, but do you have the essential tools necessary to be a blogging pro?…
Back Blogging
Just chucked up a slew of posts on Hyprtext: WordPress 2.1 Zoho and Omnidrive Wikipedia Woes Performancing: Back from the Brink? [tags]hyprtext[/tags]
Performancing: Back from the Brink?
As Nick Wilson writes on the Performancing blog: ‘Wow, what a start to the year‘. Let me try and get this in some kind of order: Performancing announce their metrics package in unsustainable and needs a buyer PayPerPost steps in…
Wikipedia Woes
Wikipedia is never far from the news, and the last week is no different. First up is the decision to make outgoing links from Wikipedia include the nofollow tag. This basically means that the links are worth nothing in terms…