I have started a new category, called Good Stuff. It’s basically just a tag I can apply to longer posts that I take a bit longer over than normal. I’m going to try and do one a week from now…

Meebo: aweb based multi-service IM tool Kiko: AJAX based online calender Using MediaWiki to Build a “normal” Website

Microsoft have released two websites just recently: one that barely works and one that doesn’t actually do anything at all. The first is live.com, some sort of portal that seems rather like start.com, though Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s chief apologist, claims…

Two in two days! You are so lucky. Tony Finch: Frustrated by Thunderbird The Guardian: You can judge a person by their book covers

Haven’t done one of these for a while. Sorry! Joel: Something Rotten in AdSense CyberJournalist: Top 10 Reasons for Reading a News Site Google Base Was Sort of Live Phil Bradley asks which blogging system he should switch to

Palimpsest’s Book Group is reading two H.G. Wells books at the moment. Being a skinflint, I thought I would download them from Project Gutenberg, a library of free books available in ext format, and sometimes HTML. The two novels are:…

The Guardian asks whether the content in Wikipedia is worth all that much, and gets some experts to judge some entries. The founder of the online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has admitted some of its entries are…

Both Scoble and MJR have referred to Jakob Nielson’s tips for a well designed site, which is actually presented as a list of mistakes. A lot of the stuff in here prompted me to change the layout of this site.

I have always been a self-taught bodge job type of web designer, and nothing I have ever designed has passed the w3c validator test. So, I decided recently, just as a technical exercise, to try and create a site which…

Über-blogger Robert Scoble is switching his blog from Typepad to WordPress. The new site is here. Note to self: subscribe to new feeds… He has chosen the Connections theme, which is the one I use here as a base template.