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Article — 1 November 2008 — 1,081 words

Happenings at Scotweb2

I said that I had hoped to tweet a bit from Scotweb2. I am terrible at multitasking though so I only managed a miserly two, hurriedly posted during lunch. So instead I will write a report of what went on. First off there was a great talk by James Munro who works on an interesting […]

Article — 12 September 2007 — 2,026 words

Shove your partial feeds up your RSS

Media — Technology

(Yes, every post I write about RSS must contain the hilarious “‘RSS’ sounds a little bit like ‘arse’” pun.) I have a request for those people who publish RSS feeds. Make them full feeds! I know there is a supposedly a debate about whether partial or full feeds work best. Well, that is not really […]

Article — 7 September 2007 — 2,187 words

20 reasons why I will put my blogs on my CV (and three reasons why I might not)

Business — Society — Technology

Yesterday I looked at the dilemma facing a blogging job hunter (ie. me). Should I put my blog on my CV? Rhys Wynne and Rich Minx think that blogging gives you lots of skills that employers find desirable. The Devil’s Kitchen has added his thoughts here and asks if there are any more skills that […]

Article — 18 August 2007 — 646 words

Why do those social bookmarking links exist?

Media — User experience — Web

There is a fixture of the modern web that I really don’t understand. And in terms of annoyance it is probably second only to Snap Preview. Millions of links to social bookmarking websites littering the bottom of every news article and blog post written. You know the ones. “Digg this!” “Send to del.icio.us!” “Pimp-me-do to […]

Article — 21 September 2005 — 212 words

No excuses now

Technology

Wow, I just got a “golden ticket” to use WordPress.com. I signed up aaages ago when nobody really knew what WordPress.com was. Well, it’s a hosting site à la TypePad. Oh, and it’s free (so maybe more like a good version of Blogger, I guess). And it uses WordPress of course. So if you don’t […]

Article — 26 March 2005 — 779 words

The end of Blogger?

Technology

New Links has finally jumped ship and moved off Blogger — three months after all the cool people did it. Their new site is at http://www.new-links.info/. I personally preferred the newlinks.nu idea, but I couldn’t be arsed waiting for the comments to load! Will Howells is also thinking of shifting off Blogger. It seems as […]

Article — 8 December 2004 — 200 words

It’s not quite finished yet but it’ll do

Personal — Technology

Welcome to my new blog! At last! Apparently it’s the month of giving, you see, so I thought that I’d get myself a new blog. One of the most frequent comments people make about Blogger is, “you get what you pay for.” Which is why I’ve shelled out the princely sum of zero for a […]