Ryan alerted me to the fact that Damien Mulley has opened the flood gates for nominations for the Irish Blog Awards!
This blog hasn’t been updated as much as it used to since wordpress.com took off, but take a look at the categories and email Damien if you think I should be nominated!
Guess I have my hands stuck in several of the categories with this blog and my photoblog, In Photos, so please don’t let me stop you nominating me in whatever category you like! 🙂
painful self-promotion ends!
Yesterday it was announced that Yahoo will bundle WordPress right alongside Movable Type on their website! Matt and the rest of us were keeping mum on everything until yesterday, but now it’s out I can blog this. Matt has links to online coverage of the event.
Me? I think it’s great, the best blogging platform just got a huge boost from a very major player on the Internet! Maybe when I talk to people about blogs in the future they’ll know what I’m talking about!
The new Automattic website launched yesterday too. There’s a little blurb about me on the About page, although I do not drink Murphys except for that time years ago when I drank a pint with a shot of Baileys to help it go down.. that was interesting.
In other news, Performancing for Firefox came out. It’s a blog editor extension for Firefox that looks pretty cool. Unfortunately I’m not using Firefox 1.5 yet so I can’t try it out.
I tried Gizmo a few nights ago and it works really well! The conference feature could be invaluable for global groups who need to keep in touch.
I’m probably one of the few people in the world who hasn’t used Skype so I can’t compare yet. Skype does offer almost-worldwide calls at 2c/minute I think but for calling the US, Gizmo is better at 1c/minute!
Even better, just like Skype, Gizmo also runs on Linux!
(Edit: the url for this entry has been updated because when I copy/pasted the title I brought over a strange “-” character that the post slug didn’t like! You should be able to click this entry now!)
The Cork City Council website has won a Golden Spider Award! Well done!
Only, don’t view it in anything but Internet Explorer. It looks crap in any other browser.
(Thanks Adam!)
Michael Larkin has posted a Top 25 Irish Blogs based on Technorati stats.
The inbound links for this blog are most definitely skewed by the fact that I’m a WordPress developer because there’s a shiny link in every new install! I’ll be very happy when In Photos shows up on such lists.
I haven’t read all the blogs listed, but those I have are a great read.
Google Video Downloader Keepvid.com – nice, lists the last decoded urls too so there’s always fresh content. I may even subscribe to the rss feed!
Update traxio.net is taken by a domain squatter, updated URL above.
If you use Windows you have to contend with viruses and trojans all over the Internet. Linux and Mac owners are a little luckier being that Linux is getting more secure by default, and both are niche operating systems.
makeITsecure is an Irish Government website set up to encourage Irish Internet users to protect their PCs. It’s a laudable effort, but sorely lacking as it doesn’t link to any of the free anti-virus or anti-adware products available! What about Ad-Aware, AVG Anti Virus or the very accessible Trend Mico Housecall that will scan your PC without installing anything?
Oh yes, makeITsecure.ie is sponsored by Microsoft and Symantec among others. At least the Microsoft AntiSpyware package is free. Let’s hope you have a genuine install of Windows eh?
My new site, In Photos.org, is probably still in the Google Sandbox and unfortunately it seems that it’ll be there for another few months!
There’s some good advice here on what new site owners can realistically expect from their sites. The mantra remains, Write Good Content and they will come.
I had never heard of sshfs, but here’s a quick tutorial on getting it working. Looks very useful!