conferences
So, what did I learn at [this year’s Like Minds](http://wearelikeminds.com/events/exeter), other than lying around doing absolutely nothing on a Sunday (other than a trip to the tip. Oh, and to Waitrose…) is a good and necessary thing sometimes?Well, this was, [as previously noted]
blog platforms
One phase of my life ends. Another begins.
blog platforms
[![Image representing CloudFlare as depicted in C...]()](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cloudflare)Image via [CrunchBase](http://www.crunchbase.com)A brief diversion into administrivia. People with no interest in self-hosted blog platforms can move right along. There’s nothing for the like of you here. 🙂This blog has languished
iPad
The decisions that newspapers make around “serving” their readers just astound me sometimes. Dave Winer on accessing the New York Post via his iPad [http://scripting.com/stories/2011/06/18/theNyPostTheIpadAndTheWeb.html]: > Today I was told by the Post that I couldn’t read the article on the
Automattic
The company that was Six Apart is gone. The name and Movable Type are ensconced in Japan [http://blog.saymedia.com/2011/01/movable-type-finds-new-home-at-infocom.html], Vox is dead and Typepad is part of SAY Media. It seems an appropriate time for a post-mortem, and that’s just what former Typepad
blog platforms
It’s been a tricky year in the blogging world – Six Apart, the traditional blog business representative at Le Web has gone, attention has shifted to things like Twitter and Facebook, and new services like Tumblr and Posterous are driving innovation. So, how do Matt Mullenweg [http://ma.tt/] and
AOL
When the two acquisitions of the week meet: AOL’s new purchase TechCrunch [http://gigaom.com/2010/09/28/nailed-it-aol-bought-techcrunch/] talking to the new CEO of SAY:Media: Let’s be honest, that’s a great example of how talking heads video can be dull, but there is some interesting
Blogging
This is long, but well worth sitting through to catch up with the ideas and concepts that have driven the success of blogging as a medium over the last decade. Don’t worry about the software stuff at the beginning – it rapidly moves beyond that.
Blogs
Some links about our friends in the nationals that have been hanging around in my Chrome tabs for too long now: * The Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress [http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/08/the-independent-switches-to-wordpress/] . Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit. * The Guardian
blog platforms
One of the “joys” of living in the social media world is those days that you wake up, and discover your e-mail in-box crammed with something – comments on one of your posts, Twitter follows or, as happened this morning, a metric ton of new followers on Typepad [http://www.typepad.
cloud computing
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/02/IMG_1013.jpg] Some interesting posts to while away the last few hours before the weekend: - [Add Social Networking to Your Blog with BuddyPres](http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/02/18/add-social-networking-features-to-your-blog-with-buddypress/)s – social networking comes to the single
blog platforms
A couple of interesting posts have cropped up since I posted about the WordPress problems [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/09/the_wordpress_attack_competition_and_blo.html] over the weekend. Kevin Anderson has followed up, looking at the security risks [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/