Blogging

New gig at Virtual Worlds Forum

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

It’s been a while since I last wrote on this blog, and for good reason: the small matter of A-Levels made me quite busy. They’re all over now, though, so I now have the opportunity to re-emerge from my hermit status.
I’m really excited to have started a new job, blogging and podcasting for the Virtual [...]

Blogging Limbo

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I’ve just ‘redesigned’ this blog by deciding to switch templates yet again. I think I’m going to stick with this one for a while - it just has that cool factor, I think.
I’m in a bit of a blogging limbo at the moment. I don’t want to stop writing, but after the collapse of Blognation, [...]

Blognation’s Demise

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I don’t think I have anything to add to the blognation fiasco - it has already been extensively written about by some. It does now look as though blognation as it exists at the moment has completely imploded, and that Sam Sethi will have no further involvement as efforts are made to turn what is [...]

Refreshed

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

There comes a time in every blog’s life when it needs to be redesigned. For this blog, that meant using a new template. WordPress made it easy, and I now have a very Web 2.0-looking design of my own.
To celebrate the relaunch, below is a random Latin music track from Ioda Promonet.

Download “Un beso” [...]

Alan Johnston

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

The BBC is asking bloggers to put a banner on their sidebar as part of its campaign to get Alan Johnston, the Gaza correspondent who was kidnapped over a month ago, released. I’ve done that (see for instructions), and I’ve also signed the petition.
I’d encourage everyone else to do the same. Whilst it doesn’t actually [...]

Escape

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

I’m announcing, Peter-style, that I’m definitely offline until next Monday. Like him, I’ve written some posts which will be published next week, so GizBuzz won’t be completely without content.
I quite enjoy having absolutely no access to the internet - on some levels I don’t give a monkeys about any of the top stories on TechMeme. [...]

Blogger’s block

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I’ve had ‘bloggers blog’ for the past couple of weeks - a complete lack of posting on Gizbuzz was the consequence. I’ve now got over it - well, sort of.
I’ve lined up about 4 drafts in the Gizbuzz system, which have the first paragraph written. So, over the course of next week, all I need [...]

Zoho knows how to evangelise

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Scoble reports that there’s a conference on tech evangelism going on at the moment. As I understand it, evangelism involves building one’s brand through conversations with the tech community, talking about why you are better and taking feedback. Think Channel9.
In my opinion, tech companies (and much of this would apply to other companies as well) [...]

So why not Vox?

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

This is a personal blog, yet I have gone down the route of installing Wordpress, a theme and getting it all set up as I like it, rather than choose Vox. I reviewed Vox on Gizbuzz a little while ago, and really liked it. If you don’t know, Vox is the latest personal blogging app from [...]

Blogs as tools for procrastination

Monday, December 4th, 2006

I am procrastinating right now. I have two essays I should be writing, and I don’t want to write either of them. So I’m blogging.
I have always used blogs as a way of work posponement. I set up Gizbuzz on Blogger partly to avoid revising for my GCSE mocks. When it came around to the [...]