If this is here, then my upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress and a new theme won’t have been a complete disaster. If it isn’t here, then let’s keep it to ourselves, eh?
The newest thing is native support for tags, as well as categories. Everything is miscellaneous, of course (check this fantastic video  of a presentation by David Weinberger …read the rest of this article

23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies. An old post (well, Nov 13th), but one well worth reading when you’re designing a site. Here’s point number one as a taster:

Text attracts attention before graphics. Contrary to what you might think, the first thing users look at on a website isn’t the images. Most casual users will be coming to your site …read the rest of this article

Whisking through my unread posts today, two items struck me as demanding a little follow-up. First of all, danah boyd and Nicole Ellison’s Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship. The nature of the paper is pretty obvious from its title, though that is not to imply that it is not well-written, intelligent and provoking. The authors don’t spell out …read the rest of this article

The secret strategies of viral marketers seems to have caused considerable upset among the Techcrunch faithful, registering 444 comments to date. Clearly author Dan Ackerman Greenberg hit something of a nerve with the 2.0 faithful. Many readers, including head honcho Michael Arrington, seem to be very naive about what marketers are going to do with sites that allow individuals to …read the rest of this article

It took a lot to say that, but I’m a big man and I do this for a living, and I have to agree:

I know I keep going on about this… but I have no time to read feeds or blog anymore. Work has en[c]roached too far. Tonight I sat down to catch up on 3,000 unread feeds and realised …read the rest of this article

Just struck me, in a not-entirely-artificial way, that if you are interested in PR and the Web, as per the last post, then you ought to come to the event we’ve organised at NMK on Tuesday next week (20/11/07), ‘Clients in the Wild’. There are about ten tickets left at this point, I understand. Click the link back there ( …read the rest of this article

OK. I’ve been product-pitched by PR companies as a (sort-of) journalist many times. I have been pitched as a blogger a few times.
This week’s malarkey is a new thing entirely. A teaser/blogger-outreach campaign.
On Monday I received a plain brown envelope.
It contained a blacked out memo, but the remaining words revealed something about a military operation. Ooooh! There was a little …read the rest of this article

Radio 4’s Analysis programme from Thursday covered the Facebook phenomenon:

With Friends Like These: Why are people happy to disclose huge amounts of personal information online? Ben Hammersley asks whether our notion of privacy has changed.

The ‘listen again’ broadcast of Ben Hammersley’s programme is available here. (NB: the link might not work for long).