Category: Blogging

  • I'd like to thank the Academy…

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    Unbelievably I won the award for the Best Technical Blog at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday night. I didn’t think I had much of a chance 1) considering the quality of the competition and 2) the fact that the volume of posting here has decreased since I upped my podcasting output! Still, those fivers…

  • Vint Cerf interview podcast

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    I published the Vint Cerf interview this evening – Woo! Wow, Vint is an intellectual giant! I am completely in awe of people of people like him. The interview went really well – he talked knowledgeably about everything from Interplanetary protocol to blogging and podcasting – on my suggestion, he’s thinking of starting a blog…

  • WordPress 2.0 released

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    The latest version of WordPress – WordPress 2.0 was released this evening – head on over to the WordPress Download site to get your copy. Well done to Matt, Donncha, and the rest of the team involved in getting this one out the door. Major reasons to update to WordPress 2.0? Nice Ajaxy back-end interface…

  • Kudos to Michele

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    Serious kudos to Michele Neylon of Blacknight Solutions (an Irish hosting co.) – Michele was quoted in an article in eWeek where he slates Google’s customer service: Michele Neylon was once very happy with Urchin Software Corp., which provides a service to analyze Web site traffic. But ever since search giant Google Inc. bought Urchin…

  • Launch of Structured Blogging

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    I see Jeff Clavier has a post about the launch of StructuredBlogging.org at the Syndicate conference. Structured blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that’s more usable. You can enter information in this form and it’ll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will…

  • Salim Ismail interview podcast II

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    As promised, here is the second interview with Salim Ismail – Salim is chairman & co-founder of PubSub and he very kindly agreed to come back on the show to follow-up on some of the things we talked about in the last podcast – if you haven’t listened to the first interview I did with…

  • Captcha's are lame

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    A captcha is an acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart – in other words a type of challenge-response test used to determine whether or not a computer user is human (or another computer). From the Wikipedia entry on Captcha’s: A common type of captcha requires that the user…

  • Some WordPress permalinks 404ing

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    I was having a strange issue recently on this blog – occassionally a blog post would 404 when the PermaLink was clicked on – the post would appear fine in the blog’s main page but any attempt to view it individually would fail! Deleting the post and re-posting with a new title solved it, so…