Steve Rubel asks why it is that not many blogging and other social media platforms allow commenters to edit or delete the comments they make on community based sites. Everyone sticks their foot in it from time to time. If…

It looks like there will soon be a new contender in the hosted blog platform sphere. Blogsmith, the engine which was designed to run Weblogs Inc, Jason Calacanis‘ early blog network which was subsequently bought up by AOL. WordPress seems…

I’ve recently started my own Community of Practice over on the I&DeA communities platform, entitled ‘Social Media and Online Collaboration’. It will be a good way of getting the message across to people who work in local government that the…

Performancing Metrics, a great free service for bloggers to analyse how people are reading their stuff, is currently too expensive to maintain, and Performancing are considering taking it open source: The biggest pull on company resources is Metrics. Our pro-grade…

From the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users. The trial software…

Well, this is my first post with Qumana (Version 3 beta 1), a free desktop offline blog post editor. It’s pretty cool, though I do have some issues with it. Feature wise, it does everything you would expect, offering a…

From BBC News: A Japanese man has died after being tackled by fellow train passengers who believed he had molested a woman during the morning rush hour. The man fled the train at a station in the city of Osaka…

Yahoo! are set to enter the blogging market with a tool called 360. Looks like it will be pretty fully featured. Tony Gentile covers the issue thoroughly: Yahoo! Blogging Tool To Integrate Social Networking UPDATE: Yahoo 360 Product Page here…

I have made a few changes to the blog layout, all on the strip down the right hand side. Most noticable is the list of recent links from the Link Blog, which is created using FeedRoll. Not entirely happy with…