Monthly Archives: July 2008

Twitter has harmed blogging

I must be one of the last social media types who is not yet twittering. Twitter, which has the tag line “what are you doing?” has never appealed to me. I don’t quite see the point in telling the world about each time I go to the loo or make a cup of [...]

Feedburner Not What it Was

The conclusive proof - for me - that Feedburner’s customer service has gone downhill since it joined the Google behemoth in May 2007.
When Feedburner (which does everything for your RSS feed) was still independent, I could post a question on its support formum and receive an answer within half an hour. Even if it [...]

WordCamp UK

On the train back to Marlylebone from WordCamp UK, I’m mulling over what I’ve learned. There was a lot of technical stuff, but the over-arching impression is that blogging, and WordPress in particular, is coming of age.
It’s not just Number 10 Downing Street that’s on WordPress but the Royal Navy,  tennis star   Andy Roddick. and [...]

WordCamp

WordCamp UK has already inspired me to break my long blogging silence on this site - and lunch with Neville Hobson has inspired me further to get blogging again.
The irony is that at this WordPress meet-up, hardly anyone is blogging. They are all twittering instead. Sign of the times.

WordPress and Number 10 Downing Street

The show stopper at WordCamp UK here in Birmingham is Simon Dickson of Puffbox. He’s just told us how he’s just built the Number 10 Downing Street site on WordPress.
(Sorry, correction, it was built by New Media Maze with input from Puffbox)
Some great sound-bites on slipping WordPress into big organisations that are suspicious of [...]