An online notebook
An online notebook
2010 has been an interesting year for the internet. Where will 2011 take us? Here’s a slightly apocalyptic set of thoughts. Wikileaks, privacy and security Anybody who has thought for even a moment about the implications of the internet and…
John Naughton is consistently one of the – if not the – best writers we have about technology. His A Brief History Of The Future is a simply fantastic introduction to the internet: why and how it came about, from…
John Naughton is spot on about the recent Facebook announcements in his Observer column: What’s comical about this stuff is not so much its implicit arrogance – the assumption that we all want to share using Facebook – as its…
One of the cool things about a single pound being worth more than $2 is that geeks like me can buy domain names on the cheap. For example, the other week I got a .net domain for less than a…
Stikipad, which I mentioned in my brief round up of wikis recently, has now made it’s free account have unlimited edits. Thank goodness sanity has prevailed – 5 edits would be nowhere near enough for someone to work out whether…
Google has released another new service: this time a web page editor and host. Not really a competitor to it’s own Blogger service, this system just produces flat sites, so really it should be seen as belonging to the same breed…
So, I had a quick look last night at the bottom of my Gmail window – where it says how much space my emails are taking up. Was shocked that it was 25% of the 2695 MB available. I thought…
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that it is a good idea for a blogger to have his or her email address easily accessible. But what about when that email address isn’t one that a reader would want to use? I…
I have been playing with the daily post setting on del.icio.us and tonight I’ll find out if it is going to work… Basically, the daily post spits out a post to your blog containing all the sites I linked to…
I have needed a simple wiki solution for a little problem of mine, and I have found just what I was after. I just needed a page or two that could be easily edited for the handful of people who…