Tag: Blogging

  • Irishblogs.ie wrecking my buzz?

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    I wrote an article on Microsoft’s IE7 earlier today but it didn’t show up in a couple of places I’d have expected to have seen it. Curious, I did a bit of looking around. I searched several search engines and was surprised to find that in Google’s BlogSearch, not alone does my article not appear,…

  • How not to complain

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    Michele Neylon put up a post last night, ostensibly about how not to do PR, but really it was about how some of his competitors are getting legalistic with clients. I think. The post was one of the more cryptic posts I have read in a long time. Seemingly someone somewhere, who may be a…

  • Congratulations Robert

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    Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s most prominent blogger is leaving Microsoft to join John Furrier’s PodTech.net. Robert himself has said that I love Microsoft and Microsoft did not lose me — at least as a supporter and friend. I am not throwing away my Tablet PC or my Xbox or my other Microsoft stuff So his departure…

  • WordPress update to v2.03

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    WordPress have announced that version 2.03 has been released. This version contains Small performance enhancements Movable Type / Typepad importer fix Enclosure (podcasting) fix The aforementioned security enhancements (nonces) I updated this blog a few minutes ago and all seems well! The update was straightforward enough – ftp into the site, delete old files, upload…

  • Automating the backup of your blog

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    I had a couple of hosting issues a week or so ago which got me to thinking (worrying!) about backing up the content of this blog. Fortunately WordPress 2.x ships with a backup plugin builtin. Unfortunately, I had failed to get the plugin to work previously and hadn’t persevered. Now, I decided, was the time…

  • Cork bloggers dinner in June

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    Damien is organising a bloggers dinner for June 7th, the evening before the IT@Cork Web 2.0 mini-conference. Stormhoek have confirmed that they will supply wine for the event (thanks Hugh). Shel Israel, Salim Ismail, Rob Burke and Walter Higgins (4 of the 5 speakers from the Web 2.0 conference) have confirmed that they will attend…

  • Site offline temporarily – apologies

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    Anyone trying to access this site or my PodLeaders site today between around 12:54 GMT and 13:14 GMT would have seen a screen somewhat like the one below. My hoster told me when I rang them that they were ‘working on it’ but didn’t tell me what ‘it’ was! This is the second time in…

  • Back with a vengence

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    Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s high profile blogger, went on a blog holiday for the past week and it obviously gave him time to do some serious thinking. He has posted a marathon post which posits five ways to improve Microsoft’s image both internally and externally. What are his five suggestions? A guaranteed Terabyte of Internet-based storage…