Is it just me or……
Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 at 11:45am in Blogging | 2 Comments
* When on your computer do you feel the need to check your RSS feeds every ten minutes?
* Do you get withdrawal symptoms when you haven’t checked your RSS feeds for over 24 hours?
* Being relatively new to the whole RSS phenomenon, are you finding it difficult to catch up because the technology is advancing rapidly and you’re still trying to understand the basics?
* Do you feel a sense of guilt when you haven’t posted on your blog for a certain period of time?
* Even when you’re not online, are you thinking about blogging, RSS etc?
* Do you get annoyed when people don’t ‘get it’?
* Do you sometimes think you’re believing the hype too much?
Perhaps it is just me?
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The news is NowPublic
Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 at 12:16pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
Came accross this interesting site, entitled NowPublic. You can submit news stories, pictures and videos. Looks like another site dedicated to citizen journalism. It says:
“ You can use NowPublic to share your photos and videos, get coverage of news you care about, and read news that you won’t see anywhere else.
At NowPublic you can:
* Point people to news and events that are important to you.
* Add your footage. Make the news better by contributing photos, video or audio to any news story.
* Store your footage, share your photos and videos with the world, and protect your intellectual property–all at the same time.
* Get free news footage to use on your blog.
* …and more!”
You can also update your news stories, tag them with keywords and track the popularity of them. There are other options also. Oh, and there’s an RSS feed for all news stories.
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Moylesy’s podcast jingle
Posted Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 8:38pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
Just downloaded Chris Moyles’s third podcast and find his jingle amusing! It goes:
“It’s another Moylesy podcast,
it’s like a little club,
while you’re listening to our best bits,
we’re probably in the pub.
it’s all the fun stuff from the show,
so listen when you like,
at home, at work and in the pub
and even on your bike”
Aaah! Small minds!
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TypePad problems
Posted at 3:31pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
I’m currently building a new blog using the TypePad platform and I’m having a little problem that’s annoying me immensely. I’m building up my sidebars with the usual content; feeds, contact details, blog roll, favourite reading and favourite music. It’s the latter two of this list that’s my cybre achiles heel. When I insert a pictures of favourite reading or music, it looks fine in Firefox. Like so:
But when I view it in IE it shows this:
Just text!
What am I doing wrong? I’ve tried the TypePad help pages with no joy and I’ve tried inserting the images a different way, with still no luck.
Murdoch ploughs $1bn into the Internet
Posted at 12:02pm in Blogging, Business | Leave a Comment
The Media Guardian reports that media mogul Rupert Murdoch‘s media empire, News Corporation is investing $1bn into an Internet news portal to rival the likes of Google and Yahoo!.
Murdoch said:
“We are in very advanced negotiations to buy a controlling stake in what we think is a wonderful search engine”
Let’s hope he joins the RSS party, or that $1bn may just go to waste.