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RSS Read­ing Habits — Sur­vey by Microsoft Research Asia, Cen­ter for Inter­ac­tion Design via Kevin Hale on of the people behind Wufoo.com. Microsoft Asia are look­ing car­ry­ing out an anonym­ous sur­vey of RSS read­ing habits. Sure it is Microsoft, but they are will­ing to share, they will pub­lish the res­ult so every­body can see. So why not take the sur­vey it is only eight ques­tion, plus the option to upload your OPML file.

Now fixed

I just changed hosts and the rewrit­ing of URLs for Word­Press stopped work­ing. I assumed a .htac­cess or mod_rewrite where prob­lem, but I have not had any prob­lems with the other five blogs that I have set up on via Reseller Zoom account. So after scratch­ing my head this morn­ing. I got home, upgraded my ver­sion of Word­Press to the latest ver­sion and that fixed the problem.

If you are not aware, the National Fed­er­a­tion of the Blind is tak­ing Tar­get to court in the US over access­ib­il­ity of Target.com (this has big implic­a­tions, as I under­stand the e-commerce engine used by Target.com is the Amazon engine). I have been watch­ing this case with interest and was read­ing Joe Clark’s inter­pret­a­tion of […]

I may link for beer, but will I link for the chance to win an ipod? Simon Col­lison is offer­ing an ipod Nano to one per­son who links to Begin­ning CSS Web Devel­op­ment using an image from his site.

I am a fan of good copy writ­ing. I am lousy at copy writ­ing and will spend too long writ­ing and rewrit­ing the same sen­tence. That is why I sub­scribe to the RSS feed of copyb­log­ger and you will often find Brian Clark’s posts appear­ing in my recom­men­ded read­ing section.

Today I read Feed­Burner acquires Blo­g­beat — FAQs and thought what great copy. I then had the mis­for­tune of read­ing the offical Feed­burner press release. Do fin­an­cial journ­al­ists speak­ing a dif­fer­ent lan­guage to the rest of us? I do under­stand how press releases work, I use to share an office with some­body who wrote them, I have even writ­ten a few. But the dif­fer­ence in lan­guage between the FAQ and the press release, makes it look like there are two people run­ning PR in Feed­burner, one very old school and very journ­al­istic and some­body who writes good copy.

If you use Meas­ure Map or read Jef­frey Veen’s blog you will of found out that Google has acquired Meas­ure Map.

I hav­ing been using Meas­ure Map for a few months now and really like the User Inter­face. So much so that given the choice between, Meas­ure Map, Google Ana­lyt­ics and AW Stats to get stast­ics for this blog, I use Meas­ure Map every day …

I got tagged by Vicki, so here goes:

Four jobs I have had:

• Gen­eral hand at cara­van park (trailer park) clean­ing toi­lets, col­lect­ing garbage etc.
• Fact­ory hand in paint fact­ory, put­ting lids on cans by hand
• Extra in a video clip
• Online Ser­vices Officer at DOCEP

egoS­urf goes to the search engines ( google, yahoo, msn, tech­nor­ati and del.icio.us ) searches on your name and scores you on how many times your name is linked to your blog and how high it is in the search rank­ings. I ended up in the top 50 egos

If you are vis­it­ing my blog instead on using the RSS feeds, you might have noticed a couple of addi­tions to the side­bar, Worth Read­ing and Com­men­ted On. This came about after read­ing a post over at Dexagogo titled
Using del.icio.us to track my blog comments

Update 15 Janu­ary: cach­ing is caus­ing a problem

The actual upgrade was quick and pain­less, the pain­ful bit was try­ing to sort out some IE inter­pret­a­tions of my CSS. Unlikely it was the upgrade to WP2 that caused the prob­lem, it was more likely the fact that I do not always check my changes in IE, today was the exception.