Thought it might be worth a quick plug of another little blog I write, called Free as in Beer.
All I do is post a link and a quick description of a zero-cost bit of software. Why not have a look – you might find something useful there!
VodPod
VodPod is a really cool way of collecting and republishing video. The way it works is this: you create a pod, which is a library of video you have chosen as being particularly good, and then add to it using a bookmark in your browser. Easy. The videos can be hosted on YouTube, Google, blip.tv… anywhere!
The other cool thing that VodPod allows you to do is add a widget to your web site, allowing people to watch the latest things added to your pod. You can see the LGNewMedia version in the sidebar to the right of the screen. Just click a video to launch a pop up media player. Nice!
There is a social element to VodPod too. Anyone can join a pod and start adding material to it. So feel free to visit the LGNewMedia one and add some video!
My Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph have put together a great social element to their website – hosting user blogs at my.telegraph.co.uk. I have signed up and the interface is very nice and clean. There’s a social element too, where you can add other My Telegraph blogs to your blogroll and keep a track of comments and whatnot.
Also, on the posting window, some nice quick tips on writing blog posts are presented:
I’ve registered my blog there, but am not sure what I’m going to do with it. Just one thing has occurred to me: will each blog pick up the considerable google juice attached to the telegraph.co.uk domain?
Brown Source
Nice to see that Gordon Brown’s campaign site is running the latest version of WordPress…
Thanks to Simon Collister for the link.