The way I see it, there are three stages to web browsing: The web is new. You visit the blogs of friends and colleagues every day. You use Gmail or Yahoo mail and check in on your favourite sites a few times a day. It quickly becomes tiring visiting websites […]
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More blog details from Google Reader
Click on the “Show details” link above your currently selected blog in Google Reader and you get a nice attractive posting and reading frequency graph, as well as the old Subscriber numbers. As you can see, I don’t read The Online Photographer as much as I’d like to!
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My favourite Irish bloggers
For the last few months I’ve added a link to one of my favourite Irish bloggers to my sidebar. If your eyes wander over there now you’ll see Green Ink, Riemann’s Cut, and this month’s blog, Inside View by Bernie Goldbach. All eyes are on the Irish Web Awards (this […]
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Do you read any Irish blogs?
If you’re not Irish or living in Ireland, can you name an Irish blogger that you read on a regular basis? (Besides me of course!) And more importantly, why? Is it because of their niche, or is it their witty and insightful commentary? I ask this because Kathy Foley blasted […]
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On Tuesday I join the Bebo Generation at BlogTalk
Sigh. The local free newspaper, The Cork Independent, covered BlogTalk 2008 here in Cork and lead with the headline, “Bebo Generation descend on Cork”. Bebo? *mutter* *mutter* Anyway, I’ll be sitting on a panel titled, From blog-style commentary to conversational social media which pretty much spans the entire blogging and […]
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Everything is stupid
Some guy called John Waters says bloggers are stupid and can’t string two words together. Now, we all know that’s a bare faced lie, but maybe he had been trawling Bebo when he came up with that freakish idea? I missed the radio interview where he said that and frankly […]
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Blogs in Plain English
What’s the big deal about blogs? Haydn rang me this morning because he’s doing research on blogs and I remembered Joseph mentioned this video on IRC. This is a reminder from the Common Craft folk that not everyone knows what a blog is, or why they’re a great communication tool. […]
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Verify your comment
Verify your comment As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This test is used to prevent automated robots from posting comments. Oh dear. How many times have I clicked submit on a Typepad blog comment form and moved […]
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The most prolific commentators of June 2007
Short and sweet, the people who left the most comments on my blog in June 2007 are: Robert Dankoozy David Precious Thank you guys for participating! It doesn’t take much to get to the top of that list, but I will delete or ignore comments from people who I feel […]
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Why blogs are better #368
How else could I get on to Google Finance’s page on MSFT? It might be gone by the time you check it, but click the thumbnail for a screen capture. My boss at Tradesignals.com would have given his right arm for exposure like that! Did I get many hits from […]