Category: Blogging

  • Chat Catcher needs a white knight

    I was dismayed by news in an email the other day from Shannon Whitley that he could no longer continue supporting Chat Catcher. This is one of the most useful tools on the web that links disparate conversation on Twitter…

  • Live blog with Twitter plugin for WordPress

    A couple of weeks ago, I took part in an interesting experiment with Twitter – contribute to a book one tweet at a time. The book project – Social Media Marketing GPS – is the brainchild of Toby Bloomberg and…

  • WordPress support a phone call away

    From WordPress developer Alex King, probably best known as the creator of many useful and popular WordPress plugins, this looks like a great idea: WordPress HelpCenter is a real-time support center for all things WordPress. We can answer simple questions…

  • The tipping point for UK political blogs

    Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger…

  • If Jane Fonda sees the point, so can you

    Doing a little research on ghost writing and ghost blogging for a client assignment, I came upon a simple perspective by Jane Fonda. The legendary actress, who started writing her blog in January (she’s also now on Twitter), has a…