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The Computer Weekly Blog Award Winners Members Public

One of the projects I’ve been involved with over the last couple of months was the Computer Weekly Blog Awards. The idea was simple – allow the readers to nominate and select the very best blogs out there in the UK IT space. Well, the results are in, and after

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Mixing Blogs & Social Networks with Movable Type Members Public

However, it feels like there’s still a significant amount of work for the team to do to make implementing this stuff easier. I’ve had an initial poke at adding the community stuff to this blog, using the instructions here [http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/taking-advantage-of-community-features.html] , and

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Adam Tinworth
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Revamping Flight's Blogs Members Public

RBI’s creative services [http://www.rbicreativeservices.co.uk/portfolio/web_presentation.html] did the design work, creating a standard look on top of the provided Six Apart default templates, which could be customised on a per blog basis with an individual header. We used Mark Carey’s Template Exporter

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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The Blog Silly Season Cometh Members Public

The comment volume on our blogs is waaaay down this week. And half the office are about to go on holiday. And that got me thinking: Do blogs now have a silly season? In the early days, us obsessives would keep the reader and comment levels high right through the

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Adam Tinworth
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B2B Blog Traffic versus Nationals Blog Traffic Members Public

I’ve always assumed that, by nature of being from niche B2B titles, our blogs were significantly less popular than those from national newspapers. And then I saw a story on journalism.co.uk reporting on The Times’ blogs and their traffic figures [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/

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Adam Tinworth
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What is the role of MSM blogs? Members Public

In many ways, I think Shane’s [following post](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/shane_richmond/blog/2008/07/23/suddenly_everybodys_buying_blogs) hits the nail more accurately on the head:> This seems to be a change in direction for a blogosphere. Instead of bloggers trying to reach

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Adam Tinworth
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Why Media Gets Community Wrong Members Public

Now the big upgrade to Movable Type 4 is done, I’m pulling together a strategy to develop our blogs. At the heart of that is slowing down the expansion of them, and upping the quality (or humanely putting down) those we have. And for those of you who are

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Adam Tinworth
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Blogs Becoming Social Networks, Says Six Apart (Europe) Members Public

Paid Content’s interview with Olivier Creiche of Six Apart [http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-video-interview-olivier-creiche-vp-six-apart-selling-to-sup-and-the-end/] . Some interesting thoughts on the usage and evolution of Movable Type (and why they flogged Livejournal to the Russians):

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Adam Tinworth
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