A grand day out

Had a lovely day yesterday in the glorious sunshine. We visited the Suffolk coast, at Dunwich Heath and Southwold, and had a marvelous time. Here’s some photographic evidence. There’s more, should you want it, on my Flickrstream.

A thought…

…that’s occurred to me since being at Online Information last week. People still seem to be under the impression that having a forum on a website, whether internal or external, means you have a community. You don’t. A community needs…

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…

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.

Change2

For a while I have been wanting to put all the bits of work I do on social media into a little basket, just to organise it and let people know that the same person is behind them all. In…

Change2

For a while I have been wanting to put all the bits of work I do on social media into a little basket, just to organise it and let people know that the same person is behind them all. In…

Web Development Resources

Marc Andreessen, one of the trailblazers of the web – he was the co-author of Mosaic, the first mass market web browser, as well as a founder of Netscape (find out more at his Wikipedia entry) – has started his own blog.…

BookZilla

BookZilla is another customised search site, like LGSearch, that I knocked together this afternoon. I think it is pretty obvious what it does. I’m running it through Palimpsest, the books discussion site I facilitate, with any ad revenue going towards the…

BookZilla

BookZilla is another customised search site, like LGSearch, that I knocked together this afternoon. I think it is pretty obvious what it does. I’m running it through Palimpsest, the books discussion site I facilitate, with any ad revenue going towards the…