Off on my hols for a week, to somewhere in the North Yorkshire Moors. Am looking forward to it no end. Still, readers of Free as in Beer and LGNewMedia hopefully won’t notice, as I’ve bunged a week’s worth of…

Two quite quick items here, so I will cover them together. Feeding frenzy I discussed earlier the importance of the feeds which other blogs produce – so you must make one available for your blog. If you want to be…

This video is a great intro to RSS. Tags: rss

Second on my list of tips was to make sure you are using the systems that suit how you work. What sort of things am I talking about? How do you blog? A blog is of course just a website,…

Mike Arrington writes about WriteWith, a collaborative writing authoring platform which combines wikis, forums and ajax document editing. Once you have finished writing, the document can be exported to MS Office or Openoffice.org format, or even published to a blog.…

Oliver Kamm in The Guardian: In its paucity of coverage and predictability of conclusions, the blogosphere provides a parody of democratic deliberation. But it gets worse. Politics, wrote the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, is a conversation, not an argument. The conversation…

Tim O’Reilly has posted a draft of a bloggers’ code of conduct. Let’s have a look at it. We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation. But frankness does not have to mean lack of civility. We…

According to FeedDemon: Tags: feeddemon

So, the first bit of advice I gave was to read more blogs. How exactly can you do that? The joy of RSS The great thing about blogs is that they produce RSS feeds. And the great thing about RSS…

I wanted to set up a free blogging account for a little project I’ve been wanting to start for a while and I thought I would give the all new Blogger a go. I wish I hadn’t. I must have…