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Mainstream media’s going nowhere

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

An idea which persists despite my deep irritation at it is that somehow the world of new media, meaning the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook – whatever the startup du jour happens to be, will replace traditional media. Just as town criers (did they exist anywhere apart from the UK) were rendered useless by newspapers, the [...]

Alan Johnston

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

It’s difficult to express just how pleased I feel that I can remove the ‘Free Alan Johnston’ badge from the sidebar. It’s absolutely fantastic that he has been freed, not only because of him but because of the symbol he has become for journalistic freedom and mission.
It’s good for the middle east as well. I’m [...]

Dear oh dear

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

The new launch of Zooomr has been a shambles, and the final product isn’t even that interesting. It is far too buggy to have been released and it adds little in the way of innovation. I was going to write a review of Mark III when it was released on GizBuzz, but I don’t think [...]

Tumblr is awesome

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I’m loving Tumblr - its a really simple blog platform that you can plugin your various feeds to, creating a nice combination of a lifestream and a personal blog. It is a study in usability - truly outstanding. It has just enough features to create a brilliant product, but not too many to make the [...]

Teamwork?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

A geek’s definition of teamwork that I just read on a Crunchboard listing: “* Works well alone and with a team, including experience with a change control system such as SVN or CVS”. I’m sure they don’t mean it to sound like they believe that a good team player is a person who can use [...]

Measuring not grouching

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

I’ve been moaning about Dreamhost’s uptime recently, threatening to switch. The problem is that no-one else that I’ve ever heard of seems to have anything that’s quite right, apart from Media Temple, which is double the price.
So, in an effort to be able to stay with DH, I’m measuring uptime this month using Pingdom’s free [...]

Hosting

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

I’m not happy with Dreamhost at all. There was at least an hour’s downtime (quite possibly more) across all my sites (and all DH’s sites), affecting not only personal sites like this one, but the whole of the Oratos Network, and Klaxis.
My Dreamhost account expires in August, and I’ve decided not to renew it unless [...]

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 [...]

GMail Spam

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

The spam filter in Gmail used to be excellent - I never, ever got spam in my inbox, despite sticking my email address in text all over the internet. In the past few weeks, though, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting much more. Is anyone else seeing this? In other gmail irritations, today I was [...]

Twitter

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

It’s quite likely that every reader of this blog has already got my Twitter address, but in case not, you can get the latest ‘what I had for breakfast’ updates on Twitter at http://twitter.com/huw . It’s really addictive!