• Web2.0 O’Reilly versus Irish web company

    There has been an interesting debate brewing in the blogosphere the past few days because O'Reilly of text book fame has sent a legal letter to a company in Cork in Ireland telling them that they can't use the term 'web2.0' for thier seminar. This seems a little, well, petty to me. The term is banal and although…

  • Is Wikipedia Dead?

    Somehow I tend to agree with this news item by Charles Arthur on the Guardian Unlimited (UK) Technology Blog. I always thought that Wikipedia would be forced to move into nastier, less idealistic territory. This is very interesting. Carr (who wrote “Does IT matter?”) doesn’t mean “dead” as in “offline” (Wikipedia is still very much…

  • Bombarded by Comment Spam?

    Looks like I'm not the only one who has been bombarded by comments spam. I just installed this new plugin called Akismet. See what they have to deal with.

  • How popular is your WordPress Blog?

    Thnaks to Lorelle for this link. Want to know how popular your WordPress.com blog is within the WordPress.com community? Want to know how you rank in popularity from among the almost 200,000 other WordPress.com bloggers?  Developed by the WordPress.com creators, WordPress.com Blogs of the Day shows the top 100 WordPress.com blogs, and from this information…

  • BBC: Podcast Lectures for Uni Students

    I'm not sure that this is such a good idea. I had the option to do it this semester, but I wonder what the students are actually missing through only hearing oral recordings? They don't get to see me stumble and blush, nor do they get to see my wonderful powerpoint presentations. And I wonder does 'on their…

  • Google Video Ads

    This is from Rojo.com. It is about the launch of video adds from Google. Google's advertising thus far has perhaps been succesful because it is subtle. What do other think of a louder Google? Get ready for a noisier Web. Google’s adding video ads, and they’ll work like text ads: Advertisers get charged when someone…