Year: 2008

  • More confidence needed in IntenseDebate

    I’m not sure what to make of IntenseDebate, the third-party comment management system that’s been managing the comments, and the commenting process, on this blog since mid November. The screenshot above is probably as good an indicator as any of…

  • Twitority fires a first shot at authority search on Twitter

    Loic Le Meur’s kick-start yesterday of a storm of discussion about his call for a means of searching Twitter posts by authority has just borne some early fruit in the shape of Twitority. Twitority is a search tool that lets…

  • Powerpress: A viable alternative to Podpress

    If you’re a podcaster and use the Podpress plugin on your WordPress blog to deliver your podcasts, you’ve probably been having a frustrating time of it during much of 2008. The last release of Podpress was version 8.8, released in…

  • A Twitter half dozen

    I’ve just spent an hour reviewing what’s accumulated in my RSS reader over Christmas, noting and tagging things that caught my interest for later action. Without doubt, the tech topic that dominates more content than anything else is Twitter, whether…

  • Christmas cheer 2008

    That’s one way of looking at a Christmas wish, I suppose. As we approach the end of a troubled year, staring recession in the face, it is worth keeping in mind that this Christmas won’t be one of cheer and…