Archive for the 'blogging' Category

While Molly blames Twit­ter for her lack of blog­ging and Mark life, the reason for my lack of blog­ging of the past few weeks can be attrib­uted to the new train and my desire to get back to a reas­on­able level of fitness…

Research­ing Gov­ern­ment use of web 2.0 tech­no­logy for this week’s Bar­Camp Nano, I found the Ripped Off blog. Which allows NSW con­sumers to tell their stor­ies about being ripped off

So Miles has tagged me with Web Dir­ec­tions Photo Meme to cel­eb­rate less than a month to go to Web Dir­ec­tions South 2007, that there are more digital cam­eras than people attend­ing these events and to prove that I actu­ally atten­ded in the past and had a very good time doing so as well as […]

Car­ni­val of the Mobil­ists #88 is out and yes that present­a­tion is in it. For those who do not know, the Car­ni­val of the Mobil­ists is a weekly col­lec­tion of blog posts on mobiles and wire­less in one spot. Which moves from blog to blog each week to share the workload

As usual there are a num­ber of very good post, which I am cur­rently reading.

A few days after Bar­Camp Perth 2007, one of the Perth Twit­ter Mob found the Pod­Camp Aus­tralia and it was passed quickly through the local social network.

At that time the Pod­Camp site was very bare, there was no inform­a­tion about the people behind the concept, just an About Pod­Camp page and a sign up page. How­ever, after the buzz of Bar­Camp Perth 2007 the oppor­tun­ity for another uncon­fer­ence con­cen­trat­ing on the social side of the web was to good an offer to refuse …

After Miles’ post about mak­ing money blog­ging and an approach to sell text link advert­ising on a cer­tain post. I have finally taken the plunge and put advert­ising on this blog. I know I said I would in last Decem­ber, well I finally did it. Some advert­ising might also appear in my RSS feeds, so be warned.

This is really an exper­i­ment to see if what happens …

AKA eight semi-random feeds

After being tagged by Gary for the Eight Pieces of Ran­dom meme and put­ting it off, Kay pushed me into action by her response Eight ran­dom things? You’ll be sorry…. So here are eight feeds from my feed reader, not exactly ran­dom as I picked the less obvi­ous feeds to highlight.

It is easy, I am blog­ging while wait­ing for my lunch. But it also has a few chal­lenges, word­press is not pretty or intu­it­ive on IE on WM5, the key­stroke com­bin­a­tions to enter HTML is pain­ful, cut­ting and past­ing from other win­dows dif­fi­cult, but it can be done, so expect more mob­log­gig from me.

After read­ing Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) on the micro­formats wiki, it left me won­der exactly what is a POSH site. I agree with the POSH and will adopt any prin­ciples I am not cur­rently using for the next ver­sion of this blog, I don’t know if it will make the grade as a POSH site.

The prob­lem is that …

It is that time of the year for well formed sites to show off their proper use of html, semantic markup and good hier­arch­ical struc­ture. For more inform­a­tion see the Annual CSS Naked Day Site.

So for the next thirty six hours or so this site will be without it’s stylesheets. I had to do a little extra work, remov­ing the IE only stylesheet and remov­ing the javas­cript that inser­ted the flash images, oth­er­wise you would end up with a couple of 1200px wide flash images on each page. The orange will return on Friday.