FriendFeeding

FriendFeed is an interesting service, which I was alerted to by Neville Hobson. It enables you to create a ‘lifestream’ – a list of all your interactions with various social networking sites. It create a narrative list of, for example,…

From small acorns…

Just to give heart to anyone out there who is struggling with a blog they’ve just started, I thought I would share something with you all. This was my first effort at a blog and it was terrible. Now, I…

Face in the Stone

Here’s a photo I took whilst we were away in Cornwall last week – it’s almost like it’s alive! I’m about halfway through posting up the best of the 200-odd photos I took – you can find them all here.…

William Shaw on Scientology

William Shaw is a great writer, and a great guy. He’s written a number of non-fiction titles, mainly on counter-cultural issues and is now doing some exciting stuff with social media, looking into stuff like uses the blog format to…

8 tips for beginner bloggers

I have been thinking quite a bit recently about what people need to do before they start a blog. I know that one should say that blogging doesn’t necessarily suit everybody, but, to be honest, if there is novel in…

More on comments

Following my last post about blog comments, a couple of posts have popped up in my feed reader about the topic. Firstly James Cridland ponders what makes him decide to leave a comment on a blog, or use his own…