Introducing Blogbase

Blogbase is a new wiki I have started to put together resources on blogging, for beginners right through to seasoned bloggers. Feel free to check it out, and please sign up to help build up the wiki! Cross posted from…

Sphere – finding related content

There are a number of ways that content providers can make related information available to readers. One such method is to provide tags on posts which link through to services like Technorati or del.icio.us, so that items which other people…

NFP Search Engine

The next project for Change2 is to be a search engine for the not for profit sector. Please can anyone with sites to suggest do so in the comments for this blog post. Thanks! Tags: change2

Cheers, Gears

Following up on previous posts about Google Gears, the web service that lets you bring your online world offline, I thought I ought to post about a couple more examples of it being used. Both have popped up on the…

Videos!

I’ve been adding plenty of video’s to my VodPod, but of course they don’t appear in the RSS feed, so those that don’t regularly visit the site won’t know they are there. So, here’s a list of some of the video’s…

A perfect blog post

Evan Davis, BBC News’ economics guy, has a pretty good blog called Evanomics (nice). Yesterday he posted on the hot topic of the moment, private equity. And as a blog post, for me it is pretty close to perfect. For…

Hospital Waiting Room Blogging?

Iain Dale points to something which I thought would be very interesting: If you want to know why the NHS is in an administrative mess read THIS post on the 2020health.org site. It is a live ‘waiting room’ blog. Although,…

Movable Type now Open Source

Movable Type is the blogging engine used by TypePad blogs, and is available for download and installation on your own server. Think of the relationship between the two being like WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Movable Type and TypePad (as well as…

From Small Acorns…

Whilst not quite making me a dotcom millionaire, it was still very gratifying and exciting to get a cheque from Google through the post – thanks to the adverts on LGSearch. The amount was pretty small, but it pays for…