Big Juicy Twitter Guide

Caroline Middlebrook has produced a guide to Twitter – what it is and why we should all be using it. Great stuff. Thanks to Phil Bradley for the link – I hadn’t come across Caroline’s blog before but am now…

Charlie Brooker: Agony Aunt

I love Charlie Brooker’s columns at The Guardian‘s Comment is Free site as much as I love his TV stuff. I’m just catching up on his posts after being offline for a while, and came across this gem: Years ago,…

Amping up WordPress

Quick presentation on improving a WordPress blog from Mark Jaquith: [slideshare 158924 amping-up-your-wordpress-blog-1194474703187376-3]

Sketchcast – social whiteboards

Sketchcast is a great little tool which allows you to record yourself drawing a sketch – whether roughly with a mouse or more accurately with a graphics pen – and you can add audio commentary too. Here’s a great example…

GroupsNearYou.com

Richard Pope has been working on a new social website for MySociety, called GroupsNearYou.com. Here’s how he explains it on his blog: For all the talk of social networking people forget that for a whole host of internet users have…

Zoho’s CRM

I have been looking for a cheap, quick to implement and eay to use CRM (customer relationship management) system to use while a long term solution is identified. This led me to have a play with Zoho’s offering, which is…

Gordon Brown loves Countdown

It’s a fact: [youtube:] Thanks to Simon Dickson for pointing out this oddity. I suppose it’s a difficult line to tread, but this definitely falls on the “has he nothing better to do?” side of things.

BarcampUKGovweb

Am very excited about the forthcoming BarCamp for UK government web types. In fact, I think the remit is probably going to expand beyond government into all areas of not for profit web work. Jeremy Gould, of the Whitehall Webby…

Hello world!

I know, I know. It seems like I start a new blog every 5 minutes. But this is different. This time, I’m staying put. The whole FEconnect thing didn’t work for me, in the end. This was a big shame,…