Mahalo

Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo, a human edited search engine, based on the MediaWiki platform used by, amongst others, Wikipedia. It’s funny, I remembered immediately the blog post Jason wrote about buying the Mahalo domain and not knowing what to…

Catchup

A flare-up of my blood sugar levels meant I had the pleasure of spending a couple of nights at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital last week, leaving me with stacks of RSS feeds to get through today, when I could face…

LGSpace – coming soon!

Am currently beavering away on my latest project in the LG* stable. Let me know in the comments if you would like to be involved in development testing, or would just like to know more! [tags]lgspace[/tags]

Free as in Beer

Thought it might be worth a quick plug of another little blog I write, called Free as in Beer. All I do is post a link and a quick description of a zero-cost bit of software. Why not have a…

My Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph have put together a great social element to their website – hosting user blogs at my.telegraph.co.uk. I have signed up and the interface is very nice and clean. There’s a social element too, where you can add…

What’s the point?

…of this blog? To be honest, it’s turned into a bit of a mess. It’s useful to have if only because it makes a handy archive of all the various bits and pieces I have written since I started blogging…

Blogging Tip #7 – Looking good

Presentation is the key to tip #7. This applies to both the appearance of your blog site as well as the standard of your writing. Picking up the latter point first, I think a good standard of writing is vital.…

Blogging Tip #6 – Keep notes

Number 6 out of the 10 tips on blogging is on keeping notes. Writing blog posts that are interesting and well-informed isn’t easy. Sitting down in front of your blog editor waiting for an idea to come is pretty hard.…