A Couple of New Additions

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… [Continue Reading]

Better Blogging and Community Spirit with Scribnia

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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… [Continue Reading]

Connecting the Dots

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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… [Continue Reading]

Soundbites and Snippets

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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… [Continue Reading]

5 Things You Never Knew About Me

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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…

Backseat Drivers and Blog Commenters

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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… [Continue Reading]