Via the 901am blog, I came across a post on Kineda outlining the tools every blogger should have: You’ve started your blog and you’re up and running, but do you have the essential tools necessary to be a blogging pro?…

Just chucked up a slew of posts on Hyprtext: WordPress 2.1 Zoho and Omnidrive Wikipedia Woes Performancing: Back from the Brink? [tags]hyprtext[/tags]

As Nick Wilson writes on the Performancing blog: ‘Wow, what a start to the year‘. Let me try and get this in some kind of order: Performancing announce their metrics package in unsustainable and needs a buyer PayPerPost steps in…

Wikipedia is never far from the news, and the last week is no different. First up is the decision to make outgoing links from Wikipedia include the nofollow tag. This basically means that the links are worth nothing in terms…

More catching up here. Aravind emailed me a few days ago about Zoho‘s new tie in with Omnidrive. Readers of this blog know exactly who Zoho are (the best online office guys IN THE WORLD!) – but who Omnidrive? Well,…

Sorry for the lack of posting in recent times, folks. Here’s a biggie I missed out on reporting: the release of WordPress 2.1. I’ve installed it over on my personal blog, and I have to say it’s a great release…

Problems with the old blog mean that I have had to abandon it for now. At some point I’ll drag the old posts back through to this one. As it is, though, this represents a new start. I’ve installed the…

The popular open source CMS Drupal released its latest version today. I’ve been using a release candidate version of the new release on a couple of sites-in-development for a few weeks now, and can confirm that it’s a huge improvement…

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I wrote a bit about Microformats earlier this month, but it looks like they could get a real boost soon with the BBC taking using them for Radio 4 – presumably a move which, if successful, will be rolled out…

Congratulations to Chris Garrett on his appointment as CEO of Performancing. Good luck in the new job to him, and to Nick Wilson for his future plans… Technorati Tags: performancing, chris garrett, nick wilson

MyBlogLog is the cool site that lets you make communities out of the people that visit your website. We’re listed there, and if you are registered, you’ll probably be able to see your photo down the right-hand side of the…

Wetpaint is a hosted wiki service – more like Wikia than PBwiki, in that it’s probably suited to community sites. The difference between Wetpaint and Wikia though, is that Wetpaint looks good. Mike Arrington and Zoli Erdos both mention it…

In the end, I just used the same theme as hyprtext, but changed a few things around. I like the look, but all the widgets I’m using might make the place look a little cluttered. Any feedback gratefully received…

Things will be going a bit wobbly ’round these parts over the next day or two. Will be upgrading to 2.06 of WordPress, and sorting myself out with a new theme. Wish me luck!

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Simon Dickson reports on Digital Dialogues, of which the DD website explains: The purpose of Digital Dialogues is to assess the capacity of ICT to support central government’s communication and consultation activity (principally with the public but also with internal…

Popular online world, Second Life, is entering into the world of open source, by releasing the code to the client application that allows users to access it. Says the Second Life blog, in a post entitled ‘Embracing the Inevitable’: At…

Counterize II is a cool WP plugin that allows you to track site stats within the WP dashboard. Nice and simple. Have installed it here and on hyprtext. [tags]wordpress, counterize, plugin[/tags]

Have been back online for a few weeks now, though much of my attention on local government and new media matter has been focussed on the IDeA Communities of Practice platform, run by Steve Dale. I’d recommend that anyone interested…