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annotating the next generation of the web

It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have time on their hands.

…with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is certainly the easiest place to start, much under-rated…

and WordPress - much slower, deeper video, but a much more powerful platform, IMHO…

There’s a little bit more to it than the videos show. But not that much.

In my opinion, buy a domain name from anyone (e.g. Bluehost, the service I use - they have been fine for the last two years and are dirt cheap) and map it to your wordpress.com account, or even better install wordpress on your own hosted server. (If you’re still with Blogger at this point, no problem - your host can ma

About this New ThemeOctober 4

The most radical change you’ll see if you get to the site, rather than read it on RSS, is that it’s single-column. That cuts out a lot of the stuff that was here before, e.g.:

recent comments
blogroll
widgets

So to tackle those:

Recent Comments: To be honest, I write this blog as a semi-continuous rant or eulogy about the stuff I love and hate. Very occasionally as an ideas-gathering forum. Forum sites are far better than blogs for debate, IMHO. I’m still accepting and responding to comments, nonetheless. Lots of times I want ideas, sure, but I think other sites than mine might do better service. Comments aren’t a priority.

Blogroll: You can find it in Bloglines, if you like, but I’ll flag up anything interesting on Twitter or de.licio.us. I’ll try to recommend any new blogs I come across that are really interesting. But, honestly, do you really need new blogs to read? I rarely read my own blogroll in full, so consider it more a recommended reading list for starters rather than an indication of what I am reading.

The Selfish Agenda: BitTorrentOctober 4

Sue me now: I have used BitTorrent to sample stuff I was not in a position to buy or was not sure whether I wanted to buy. It’s been piracy, legally, but my defences, which I am sure wouldn’t see me win in court, but which might help here are:

(a) I buy more music and games than most people. Check out my iTunes, gamers gate, direct2download and metaboli accounts (you can’t because they are private, but I assure you they are burgeoning).

(b) I feel ripped off by a lot of MSM releases. I buy a music album and I only like two tracks. I buy a game and every level is the same as the first, or normally, worse. That’s not fair, and internet sharing gives me a means to test properly before I buy. I don’t want to give cases in point right here, but it’s certainly true. OK - found Neil Finn through Blip.FM (an internet radio malarkey, like a mix between Twitter and Last.fm). Then I bought two of his CDs. Fair deal? I think so.

(c) I go on to buy or follow a lot of stuff I get this way. I might download your first album or game, but then I’ll go on to buy your second or third. I might come to your gig, tell my friends how great it is, etc., etc.

(d) The content producers very often haven’t created a way for me to sample the product

Events: The Real ThingSeptember 22

So, last week, we organised a conference called i-design 08 and a portfolio clinic session of the same name as part of the London Design Festival.

I thoroughly enjoyed all the content, but I don’t want to talk about that in this post, However, my reports from the event will be published over the next couple of weeks and so extensively linked and republished that you will be physically ill at my gauche-itude. You will feel as though you were there, and are still there.

I wanted to talk about my feelings as the person ultimately responsible for the event budget. We’re a modest sort of organisation with modest sort of budgets, so basically, we’re talking about around £10K - the LDF paid for most of the venue hire costs.

Even though that’s a tiny amount of money in event terms, marketing terms, advertising terms, I have to say that my main feeling until the event was over was one of utter horror. There’s been a sick tightness at the bottom of my stomach for four months.

Would people book?
Would they turn up even if they’d

At Mortlake StationSeptember 9

First day back to work. Thanks, world, for the 1000+ emails in my absence. Still, food for thought on the way:

I confess, I was totally taken in by this for a second. I thought, “Wow, there’s a course about blogging at our local college. That’s amazing.”

Of course, I was wrong. Because bloggers are sad, buck-toothed losers with no friends. And they wear spectacles. Yes!

Clearly, I should be getting myself down to such delights as:

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