technology woes

Wordpress Woes Members Public

You know, I keep hearing about how difficult Movable Type is to install & maintain, but I’ve never had any real trouble doing it. I just upgraded my WordPress blog, Coffee & Complexity [http://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/], to version 2.3 [http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23/]. It

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Popularity: Made by Monkeys Members Public

I’ve spent the day sat between two laptops and an iMac leaping between Movable Type, Google Analytics and Technorati, making sure all our traffic and links monitoring are in place for an internal event we’re holding next week. In the course of all this, I’ve stumbled across

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Adam Tinworth
batteries

Blogger Down? Members Public

Is it me,  or is every Blogger-hosted blog I look at down right now? Update: Looks like all Blogger blogs were down for about an hour. That’s quite a chunk of the blogosphere that went AWOL. Poor show, Google.

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Adam Tinworth
blogger

Advice for Conference Organisers Members Public

If you’re running a blogging or social-media related conference, offer free WiFi and power at the desks. Otherwise, you’re crippling the ability of people to blog about your conference – and thus do your publicity for you. Yes, I’m at Blogging4Business [http://www.retailevents.co.uk/b4b2007/site/

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Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Blogging Is Better Than Putting My Fist Through The Monitor Members Public

I’ve not been having a good technology day. We’ve had a couple of issues with both our internal and external blog servers that have sent my blood pressure in what could be described as “a non-positive direction”. The “split bill” service for my corporate mobile phone (no, I

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digital natives

Le Web 3: Going Down Members Public

Barely 30 mins in, and the broadband is down. Heigh-ho. Blogging from the conference when I can.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Roger the Spam Dodger Members Public

The BBC reports on the best ways to dodge an in-box full of spam [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2969783.stm]: > US researchers at the Center for Democracy and Technology set out to answer this question in the summer of 2002. They found that e-mail addresses

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spam