So thanks again to Pearson Education for sending me books to review. This time it’s Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro by Canadian blogger Tris Hussey. It’s currently £10.26 on Amazon UK and has 272 pages. Since, as you’ll have noticed, I’ve already created my own blog, I’m [...]
February 17, 2010
I claim no expertise, but I have tried and tested a lot of Wordpress plugins on this blog and the following remain on my ‘essential / must-install’ list. I have provided links to each of the plugins, so you can find out more. But if you want to try them on your own site, it [...]
January 25, 2010
There is a fever of anticipation over the imminent release of a tablet-style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update - actually, let's call it the iPad - I stand by everything else in the post, though]. Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications, but [...]
January 22, 2010
Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog – has produced an update to its engagement ladder diagram: The diagram was changed to add in users of Twitter and other ‘status-update’ applications, most notably Facebook. Author Josh Bernoff notes that this group has a different demographic make-up to others: Conversationalists intrigue me. They’re 56% female, more than [...]
January 11, 2010
I’ve just installed the Wordpress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-the-fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want [...]
December 17, 2009
The latest storm in a teacup to upset the blogosphere is the spectre of ‘fast-food content’. Raised as a threat by McArrington himself, the worry is that fast and loose content quickly generated to match popular keywords will swamp quality content in search rankings. …what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content that [...]
December 17, 2009
I’ve been having a go at the latest chic-geek blogging tool – posterous – recently, as you’ll be able to tell if you look at the posts I’ve made here over the last month or so. But, in the end, I’ve decided not to use it. Why? Read on. Just to be clear, before I go [...]
May 27, 2009
The Foucault post yesterday seemed to go down well, so I thought I’d chance my arm and respond to a couple of criticisms in a new post rather than the comment thread. Sorry, purists. My erstwhile-friend Roger from Content & Motion launched the first counter-offensive. ;-) His main point is about the decentralisation of power in [...]
October 5, 2008
It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have more talent than me and have taken the time. …with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is certainly the easiest place to start, much under-rated… and WordPress – much slower, deeper video, but [...]
October 4, 2008
[This post is rather obviously out-of-date.] The most radical change you’ll see if you get to the site, rather than read it on RSS, is that it’s single-column. That cuts out a lot of the stuff that was here before, e.g.: recent comments blogroll widgets So to tackle those: Recent Comments: To be honest, I write this blog as a semi-continuous [...]
September 9, 2008
First day back to work. Thanks, world, for the 1000+ emails in my absence. Still, food for thought on the way: I confess, I was totally taken in by this for a second. I thought, “Wow, there’s a course about blogging at our local college. That’s amazing.” Of course, I was wrong. Because bloggers are sad, buck-toothed [...]
June 18, 2008
Quick report from last Friday’s Fuel conference. It was a well-planned day which I thoroughly enjoyed, so well done to Ryan, Keir and the Carsonified team. It was also good to meet up again with a couple of fellow bloggers. Andrew from Imagination has written already about the attention to detail shown in the design [...]
March 18, 2010