Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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Recent Photos

Just had the chance to get some new photos up on my Flickr account. Here’s a view of the flooding we had in Llansantffraid earlier this month: This is St. Bridget’s church in the village (Llansantffraid means ‘Church of St.…

The Blog Train

Hugh McCleod: I am no longer interested in being a “professional blogger”, whatever that means. I like blogs, blogging and bloggers, but I think we’re in “post-revolution” times now. The train has already left the station. If you managed to…

PfF/ScribeFire Review

I’ve been using Peformancing for FireFox, shortly to be rebranded as ScribeFire, for my last few posts on hyprtext, and my initial impressions are pretty good. It certainly fills the gap left when my switch to Ubuntu meant I could…

Blogsmith Coming Soon?

It looks like there will soon be a new contender in the hosted blog platform sphere. Blogsmith, the engine which was designed to run Weblogs Inc, Jason Calacanis‘ early blog network which was subsequently bought up by AOL. WordPress seems…

End of 2006: Books

Here’s the pathetic list of books I managed to read this year. Excuses: new job, wedding, house move. 11. The Prone Gunman – Jean-Patrick Manchette10. He Died With His Eyes Open – Derek Raymond9. The Damned United – David Peace8.…

links for 2006-12-30

Q&A With Jimmy Wales On Search Wikia (tags: search wikipedia google Q&A wikia wiki interview) hyprtext (tags: web2.0 blog hyprtext social networking) Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » My thoughts on recent Google tips (tags: google ads tips evil)…

Google: Good or Evil?

There has been much discussion of late about Google’s antics in providing ‘tips’ at the top of searches. For example, try running a search on the word ‘blogging‘. What’s that, just under the sponsored links? A tip telling us to…

ScribeFire

I wrote a couple of days ago about the purchase of Performancing Metrics by PayPerPost. The Performancing blog editor and advertising partnership programme were to be continued by the same team under different banners. Well, the blog editor is now…

links for 2006-12-29

Bribing Bloggers – Joel on Software (tags: article blogs ethics marketing microsoft) PayPerPost buys Performancing.com (tags: payperpost performancing metrics) FirefoxNewVersion – Community Ubuntu Documentation Update Firefox in Ubuntu (tags: firefox ubuntu)