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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!

Trillian Astra

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

I’ve just taken up an invitation I got a while ago to try out the alpha version of the next version of Trillian, and I’m typing this blog entry in it now. I don’t like it. I usually use the Gmail GTalk client, and I love the minimalist style of it which just does the [...]

2020 vision

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Elements of the Labour Party (led by Alan Milburn, former Health Secretary and staunch Blairite and Charles Clarke, former Home Secretary) have set up a website designed to come up with new ideas for the party’s future called The 2020 Vision. It’s going to be all new media, with blogs and comments included. At the [...]

Posting from Google Talk

Monday, February 26th, 2007

This is an experimental post using an IM bot called imified.com. I’m writing this in GTalk, and this will apparently be posted to Waah. Whilst such a service is of slightly limited value (I can quite easily login to the Wordpress editor), it is slightly quicker. This might make me do more short, Twitter-style updates [...]

Google will buy FeedBurner

Friday, February 16th, 2007

I’ve written before that I think Google should buy FeedBurner, and I think (for admittedly very tenuous reasons) that the acquisition might be getting closer:

The GReader Team just announced that Google Feedfetcher would report subscriber numbers when requesting feeds. This is essential for services like FeedBurner to get accurate numbers (as Google only fetches a [...]

BBC web principles, etc

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Well worth a read for anyone behind a website.
BBC’s 15 Web Principles
They are the basis of a new strategic review being conducted by the BBC of its web strategy, and I think they make a lot of sense, not just for mammoth organisations, but any organisation which isn’t purely aimed at one very specific [...]

Funny, ridiculous, ironic and great

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

This blog just got accepted into the TLA program, after the PR update of this week which saw its PR go up to 4.
Funny, ridiculous and ironic because Gizbuzz hasn’t been able to get into the program previously, despite having far far more traffic than this blog because its PR as published by Google was [...]

A little logo redux

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

I just found this redux of a whole load of corporate logos in the Web 2.0 style:

Its odd when you think about it that such an important sector within the American economy has carved out such a different branding style. I do like some of the above logos more than the originals, particularly BMW.

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