Category: Experimenting

  • FeedDemon the smooth operator

    FeedDemon – the best desktop RSS feed reader for Windows, in my view – will soon be out in a new version 2.8. As is typical in much software development these days, beta versions of the new release are publicly…

  • Better conversations with IntenseDebate

    Today I installed IntenseDebate on this blog as a way to address one of the things I don’t really like about commenting – the linear form comments tend to take. What I mean is that the chronological-order format makes it…

  • A (one-off) future for print

    What an interesting experiment. This morning, a four-page printed newspaper called The Manual was distributed to London commuters at a number of locations in the city. Just 150 copies were printed with each one numbered so making the complete print…

  • Bank holiday links

    It’s late August bank holiday weekend in the UK, which often means traffic jams, rock festivals, iffy weather and maybe a strike. It’s all of that so a usual bank holiday experience :) So as I’m in the holiday spirit…

  • Grappling with the mobile email monster

    Most people I know in business have a Blackberry. And it is usually a Blackberry, not another smartphone brand, that people use to keep on top of things like email when they’re out and about. For years, I’ve been a…