• The State of the Blogosphere

    Thanks to Cory Doctorow fot this one. (Cory is the author of the world's most popular Blog, Boing Boing). And it is easy to see why his Blog is so popular; he is so damn prolific (even during the Easter break!). From Boing Boing  Dave Sifry, the founder of Technorati, has posted the latest in…

  • 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…