As I haven’t posted for a little while I thought I may as well mention the little site I was working on last wekk, LGNews. It’s a WordPress installation that aggregates various news feeds. To be honest, I don’t like…

Hurrah! WordPress now has a decent plugin directory!

From the BBC: Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue web search engine Google and its video-sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m). Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube uses its shows illegally. Viacom alleges that about 160,000…

Tom Foremski over at Silicon Vallery Watcher points out the things that annoy him about search: – There are many publishers that try to make sure their headlines catch the attention of the search engines rather than catch the attention…

Since cobbling together all the various posts from my previous blogs into this one, I came across a few posts that surprised me by being quite interesting! My Top Ten Websites and services Living without the Desktop Things I Use My 10 thoughts…

A couple of weeks ago, I noted the new Lib Dem’s manifesto website, which pleased me as it ran on WordPress. Well, thanks to Guido I have come across two more WP powered sites maintained by the Liberal Democrats. The…

The Guardian reports on ‘Conservapedia‘: A website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they claim is “liberal bias” on Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia which has become one of the most popular sites on the web. The founders…

Here’s the first LGNewMedia podcast. It’s the first in a short series about some of the great social media and Web2.0 tools that are available. This first one is about WordPress. I hope you enjoy it – please leave a…

Having added the various sets of new links to LGSearch, aside from keeping the list of links up-to-date, I think LGSearch is pretty much fully developed with what’s available from Google Coop right now. I still wonder, though, whether there…

The BBC points out a new site the Liberal Democrats have set up to discuss their manifesto for the next election. MP Steve Webb, running the web-based project, said it would help frame “detailed policy”, but that the party would…