Year: 2009

  • Watching the Watchmen

    I’m watching with great interest some of the social media communication Dan Light is involved with as part of the marketing for Watchmen, a movie about American superheroes based on a DC Comics series, due out in the UK on…

  • Does Google Friend Connect have a point?

    Early last month, I signed up for Google Friend Connect, the service that Google says lets you offer visitors to your site the means to be part of a community. It’s great, I think, as in a very short space…

  • Two tools to add value to your WordPress blog

    One of the features that make self-hosted WordPress such an excellent content management system or blogging platform (take your pick of description) is the easy way you can extend functionality through adding third-party plug-ins. I use a lot of plug-ins…

  • Jonathan Ross comeback lights up Twitter

    In common with thousands of fellow Twitter users, I sat down on the sofa at 10:35pm last night for the first of the continuance of the 15th series of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, the chat show on BBC1 with…

  • Is there an alternative to FeedBurner?

    In mid December, the RSS feeds for all my blogs including this one that have been managed by FeedBurner since 2004were auto-migrated over to Google. This is part of the changes that started happening earlier last year following Google’s acquisition…