Category: Blogging

  • The battle for command and control of the Labour Party

    Coming next month to an internet-connected device near you is LabourList.org, a new online presence for the Labour Party with social media at its heart. LabourList’s strapline says “Where Labour minded people come together,” a good indicator of what to…

  • New Windows Live Writer makes blogging easy

    Microsoft has released a new version in beta of Windows Live Writer, the offline blogging editor of choice for many bloggers with Windows PCs (I’m one of those bloggers). The new version – described as Windows Live Writer 2009: Release…

  • Christmas reading list

    A package from Amazon UK arrived this morning with a copy of The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging that you see pictured here. I first heard about this book last month in a post by Darren Rowse, so I…

  • WordPress 2.7 is all about the user

    The latest version 2.7 of the WordPress blogging platform for self-hosted blogs was released this week, and a terrific upgrade it is. The first thing to notice is the brand new structure of the administration interface, aka the dashboard (click…

  • Contemporary suits Ferrero

    One of the people I encountered in Barcelona during this past week, where I chaired the New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy conference (about which a post soon), was Guillaume du Gardier, pictured in a photo I took on…