Well, after a bit of random copying and pasting of RSS links, I have got some kind of feed visible in the sidebar column. But bizarrely, it bears no relation to the Tweetfeed I copied it from, and if you click through to the RSS feed itself, it bears no relation to that either. In […]
The nice folk at BlogCatalog sent me a link to use their new Tweetfeed service, which allows you to create a custom Twitter feed on the topic of your choice (say, journalism, just to pluck something out of the air) and then stick the feed on your blog via a widget. Typically, of course, I […]
Apparently Technorati is as dead as print publishing, according to the WordPress cognoscenti. So I’ve also registered on BlogCatalog – the blogger’s social network. Now to figure out how to add those stumbling and digging things on to my posts… UPDATE: Now I have to wait 24 hours for a real person to approve my […]
I’ve just registered with Technorati [no idea how it works, but I think it’s one of the rules of blogging]. I find I have a ranking of 4,770,814. As the great David St Hubbins might have said, that’s a bit too much flaming perspective…
So, ever-reliable blog fodder the Daily Mail believes social networking sites damage children’s brains. A selection of accurate criticism about the lack of evidence beyond one person’s opinion based on one anecdote can be found here in the comments to a Cafe Hayek post, so I won’t bother adding to that. But seriously – how […]
Pesto jumps on the castigate-corporate-excess bandwagon today [that’s BBC business editor Robert Peston, of course], with a post about RBS selling its private jet – one it was embarrassed to be caught owning a few years ago apparently. But while RBS makes a great target for, well, any criticism really, Peston completely misses the point […]
Mayhem on Saturday morning at Animated Exeter, when I got my first taste of a full-day animation workshop for 12-15 year-olds. Disappointingly, despite the promise of Plasticine modelling in the brochure, workshop leader Josh vetoed it on the grounds that it would be “too messy”. Frankly I thought this was a bit too grown-up, until […]
Interesting post on the FT’s Alphaville blog [from last week, but I’ve only just caught up with it]. Reuters files a story based on an FT interview with Luo Ping, a director-general at the China Banking Regulatory Commission. In the course of it, Mr Luo passes comment on the current US policy of monetary loosening: Mr […]
It’s all-too easy to take this blogging nonsense too seriously – you know: try to burnish each post so that it flies off the Google listing straight into readers’ browsers and pushes you to the pinnacle of the Technorati rankings. Which is why I always smile when I visit my pal Peter Ashley’s Unmitigated England […]
Before I got so tired that I had to go to sleep in the cinema at last weekend’s Animated Exeter, I ended up at a presentation of the techniques behind What’s Your News – a new combined CG animation/live action kids’ TV show from Nick Jr. Despite the irritating theme music, the show is actually […]