• RSS Feeds on WordPress

    Getting RSS Feeds to display in your posts, pages, and sidebar isn't as easy as some claim. I tried for ages using a plug-in called 'firstrss' but just like the first time I had sex, it didn't seem to work out and turned me off the whole thing for a while. But then I discovered…

  • Checking Spelling on WordPress 2.0

    I found a great spell checking plug-in for WordPress 2.0 today by Raj Prasad called Editor Monkey. (I would have thought that spell checkers would come standard with content management systems by now). The plug-in took me ages to install (as it is a pretty large file at about 40mb) but it was worth every minute of it as…

  • The World’s Most Popular Blog

    Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (From The Age) AT FIRST glance, the world's most popular blog, Boing Boing, looks like a pleasant 10-minute diversion: links to "nerdcore" rap music downloads, photos of shoes made from computer keyboards and South Park updates. But the six-year-old "directory of wonderful things" attracts more than 1.7 million…

  • Book: Moomba a Festival for the People

    The Lord Mayor of Melbourne, John So, sent me a copy of the book I co-authored on the history of the Melbourne Moomba Festival today (read Prologue). And what a great relief it is to finally see the work in tangible form. We were originally commissioned to write the history in June of 2002 and…

  • Web 2.0 – The Promised Land

    Approaching a definition of Web 2.0 – The Social Software Weblog I have never really liked the ‘periodisation’ that comes out of ICT discourse — like calling ‘social software’ and the developments around content management systems (blogs)– the ‘Web 2.0’. The Web has never really been one thing and never will be. ‘Web 1.0’ was…

  • Social Bookmarking Sites

    Two important social bookmarking sites I have subscribed to are http://del.icio.us/ and the increasingly ubiquitous citulike.org Now, to get the RSS feeds to work on the sidebar!