Just wanted to give you a quick heads-up on two new additions to the blog, both of which you’ll see in the right-hand sidebar. The first is the option to subscribe to this blog via a podcast format. However, this isn’t me doing the podcasting – it’s handled by Odiogo, an app that automatically converts blog posts into audio files. The audio quality is actually pretty good, considering it’s (at heart) a robot. The subscribe options are iTunes, Juice and…

A little while back, I shared some tools with you that I thought helped enhance the community spirit for bloggers.  One of those tools was Scribnia, which I described as your “personal feed recommendation”. Having sat down with it a little more since then, it’s clear that it’s a lot more than that. At its simplest, Scribnia allows members to find blogs and authors and rate them. So far, so what? After all, BlogCatalog offers the same feature with their…

Recently I looked at Social Mention and said that one of the things I like about it is the way it connects all your online sources into one. As more networks and ways to interact spring up each day, it’s cool to be able to see what you’ve written and what’s been written about you in a single place. This integration and interaction is especially true for bloggers, when you want to connect with other bloggers as well as the…

If you look to the right of this blog and scroll down a little, you’ll see a widget entitled “soundbites”. It’s from my latest home online, Posterous. Perfect for both casual and more serious bloggers, Posterous is based on a pretty funky idea – to make blogging as simple as possible for as many people as possible. You don’t even have to have an account, if you don’t want one – you can email your posts in. Simply send the…

There’s a blogging theme running around at the moment, courtesy of one Dominick Evans. It’s a fun way to share 5 little known facts about you to your readers and visitors, as well as offering a chance to read recommended blogs. So, although I may offer nothing of interest for you to know – for which I apologize in advance – here are my 5 little known facts. Enjoy. Or not…

Back in January of this year, Hjortur Smarason (owner of Scope Communications) wrote an interesting blog post about Target and their response to feedback left by a blogger named Amy Jussel. Jussel had written to the retailer to complain about an advertising campaign that showed a woman lying spreadeagled on a target, with the unfortunate placing of the woman meaning that her crotch was immediately over the bulls-eye. What makes the whole thing interesting was not the fact that Target…