Just upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.2.1 with no apparent upsets. It’s a refinement of the major 2.2 version announced a few weeks ago and fixes some of the things (about 43 of them) the new version broke, in particular, the very fine ExecPHP widget that lets me create the category cloud and the bloglines-linked blogroll, while working within a …read the rest of this article

The regular version of Plaxo remains free, but the premium version costs $50 a year. That’s quite a lot compared to premium services of other web apps, but if you fit into the demographic that Plaxo’s aimed at – mobile or work from different locations, tons of contacts built up over many years, fairly hectic schedule – then the peace …read the rest of this article

It’s time for a new alternative…
 
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Aussie PR bloggers Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins have released the second edition of their e-book about social media, now updated to cover Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook and Second Life. As previously, it’s a free PDF download.   
It’s a good read and covers some lesser-known (in the Northern Hemisphere) examples of brands and organisations using social media to engage with people.
Corporate Engagement: Second edition …read the rest of this article

Facebook is a game, the same as Linked-In is a game and bebo is a game and all the rest. Google doesn’t want to be a game, but a lot of people want it to be and are playing it anyway.
The first stage of the game is getting to level two. Level two means having more contacts than all of …read the rest of this article

Over at currybetdotnet, Martin Belam has produced OPML files for all the RSS feeds published by the eight leading UK newspapers.
This amounts to the aggregation of 2316 different feeds – though individual author feeds for the Guardian’s Comment is Free admittedly account for 1968 of these. A CiF-less version with 348 feeds is also available.
So what?, you might think, I …read the rest of this article

Didn’t get round to watching this till today. Crikey.

Kent Newsome is ‘crowdsourcing’ his blogroll to find some interesting new reading and asked for five suggestions from current incumbents. The following four are quite well-known in the UK, so apologies for the lack of originality, but they’re must-reads for me that aren’t on Kent’s list. The fifth is a new one that’s looking very promising.
Broadstuff Alan Patrick, with occasional …read the rest of this article