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Whether you are a business, organisation or individual, this question can often be the first hurdle in starting to blog. There are so many blogging platforms out there, it can be confusing to decide which one is right for you. Last night at the first London NetTuesday Meetup, a group of bloggers, possible future bloggers, [...]
I’m looking forward to tonight’s inaugural NetSquared London Meetup: a head-to-head ‘battle’ between the major blog platforms: MovableType, WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Having evaluated all of these platforms before settling on the final winner for our needs at NESTA (TypePad), and as an avid user and ‘pusher’ of WordPress myself, I am looking forward to [...]
Well, I’m back after spending the best part of a month entirely offline (visiting family & travelling in Japan). I thought it would be a real struggle, but surprisingly I didn’t feel the withdrawal and in fact it was a refreshing change – though I think that was mainly because I was busy doing other [...]
My full notes from the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference are posted on the NESTA blog, but in summary the key themes were about making web-based tools more social, and the increasing need for interoperability – that is, the need for all these separate web-based tools to start talking to each other, and allowing [...]
Off the back of my recent invitation to speak on a panel at the Office 2.0 conference, I decided it was about time I went public about all the online tools that I & my team have introduced to NESTA. Here’s a quick runthrough: Our Intranet is a structured (hybrid) wiki powered by ThoughtFarmer… We’ve [...]
Today I feel like getting out some placards, flying across the pond and picketing the streets of Washington, D.C. The US government could potentially lift the ban which currently prevents greedy ISPs from charging people for the amount of bandwidth they use, instead of a flat fee. Here’s my somewhat disgruntled post about it from [...]