Neville Hobson writes: Three lessons about evangelism: Always consider another’s point of view – and listen to that point of view no matter how anxious you are to get across your own point of view Be passionate but consider how you…

8 Secrets of the New Super Blogs from Vaspers the Grate 8 Secrets of the New Super Blogs:Blog Revelations from Otherwhere (1.) Blogs will be interesting…or die. (2.) Blogs will be unusual, abnormal, unique…or die. (3.) Blogs will be practical,…

Backpack is a genuinely brilliant site. It is essentially an online personal information manager, giving you the ability to maintain an online diary or keep todo lists, posts photos and all sorts.   Steve Rubel explains it far better than…

A friend mentioned today that she had visited The Bowes Museum in County Durham. Quickly googled it, and what an impressive building it is: The reason this cropped up? The Raphael painting The Madonna of the Pinks is currently on…

John Naughton writes excellently every week for the Observer newspaper. Here is his article from last weekend, which focussed on a Tory party candidate’s use of Photoshop on a campaign photo. He explains issues and techniques in a very clear…

For those who visit the site rather than subscribing, you will notice a change in style. This is down to the upgrade to WordPress 1.5 which I have finally got round to putting into place. Will have a look at…

Great result for Forest today.Link below from the Guardian. More to follow when I get back online. Championship round-up Championship: Sunderland went top with a win over Coventry, as Wigan could only draw against Nottingham Forest. I really can see…

Jason Kottke writes on: My business influences As you may have noticed by reading the site in the past year, I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about companies…how they succeed, why they fail, how to approach them from a…

Only just come across this, from The Guardian’s Newsblog. Bizarre… Slough Tory sacked Assiduous readers may recall our story revealing that the Conservatives’ prospective parliamentary candidate for Slough, Adrian Hilton, believed the EU was part of a Catholic conspiracy to…

Not if his blog is anything to go by. Full of interesting information on getting published. One recent highlight was In Search of the Perfect Computer Book: I’m going out on a limb here to say that the “perfect” computer book…