Wee Break in August

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I’ve been considering going for a wee break somewhere in August. I thought of going to Austria, to the BarCamp Traunsee to be precise, and to pay my friend anaj a visit at the same time. I’ve always wanted to go to Vienna! I’d even planned how to get there - fly with [...]

Developing a Personal Brand

I’ve been thinking about my ‘personal brand’ and whether/how I should develop it. I’m plagued forever by the private/public dichotomy, in that I’m very guarded about my online identity and don’t really want to push my real name out into the ‘web 2.0 sphere’.
However, I realise that I have to do something for my horizontal [...]

WordPress at Web 2.0 Expo

WordPress have announced a new feature that suggests posts (from your own blog or the blogosphere) based on what it thinks is related to whatever it is you’re blogging about. Sounds like a semantic app.
At the web 2.0 expo they also announced the upcoming Monotone - theme, which is basically a photo-blog template. It looks [...]

BBC Website relaunch

When did that happen? I know they’ve had something in Beta (preview) for a while, but I never bothered changing it.
Now they’ve got rid of the old layout. The customisable bit looks interesting.
I wonder when they did the relaunch. Maybe 1st March? I mostly access the BBC site via the feeds, and they haven’t changed [...]

Web 2.0 Peaked in 2007

I’m going to say something controversial today. The goldrush of web 2.0 is over. 2007 was the year of Facebook, and of brands latching on to social media, desperate to get a slice of the action.
Now, everyone seems to have sobered up a bit. Facebook is seeing a decline in its users, while YouTube have [...]

Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo

The blogosphere is buzzing with the news that Micro$oft has put in a bid to buy Yahoo, an old relic from web 1.0 that even back in 1996 I didn’t really use (which search engine did I use back then? Fuck knows. Probably altavista…which of course these days I no longer use at all, apart [...]

Tips for Starting a Blog

I came across this post the other day - some tips for those just starting out blogging.

   1. Sign up at wordpress.com
   2. Sign up at technorati.com
   3. Sign up at mybloglog.com
   4. Sign up at clustrmaps.com
   5. If you have an account on SCN, put your shiny new url every where you can. Your [...]

Check out the RSS feeds my Friend Reads (Privacy WTF)

The shocking news has come to my attention that Google Reader has now started invading our privacy. If you’ve got Google Reader, you can now see all your friends’ feeds (without their knowing this is the case). Sneak out what interests your friends have, whether they subscribe to any dodgy, illegal feeds - no worries [...]

w00t = Word of The Year

and rightly so!
w00t, a word that I use occasionally (even the other day), has been voted ‘word of the year‘ by ‘dictionary gurus’ Merriam-Webster.
w00t!
As for the pronunciation, I haven’t got a clue how to pronounce it. I only use it in writing.

Cute Firefox Xmas Themes

The other day, I’ve put an Xmas skin onto my Firefox. It’s quite funky - would take a screenshot but I’m on by PC just now and the Xmas theme is on my lappy. Below are two Xmas themes, but check out the Firefox theme page for any other skins to sex up your browser [...]