Essential Blogger Tools

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?…

Back Blogging

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]

Performancing: Back from the Brink?

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 Woes

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…

Zoho and Omnidrive

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,…

WordPress 2.1

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…

Blog Woes and a New Start

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…

Drupal 5 released

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…

Microformats update

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…