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Last year it was Facebook. Today’s shiny new object unquestionably is Twitter.
If you haven’t heard of Twitter (it’s now just about in the mainstream), it’s simple to describe:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are [...]

A discussion on Twitter early this morning about Windows Vista has got me thinking about faith.
I’ve been a Windows Vista believer since the operating system was in beta.
Even in the face of relentless negative opinion - seemingly everywhere you look - about Microsoft’s latest OS, I still reckon it’s pretty good.
Yes, it does still [...]

If you’re a WordPress user in the UK and are keen to get involved with others to share tips and experiences about blogging with WordPress, take note that a WordCamp is coming to the UK.
From an initial idea by Tony Scott, the concept starting gaining traction last week via a mailing list discussion.
Now, it’s [...]

I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5, the latest version of the content management system released yesterday.
For me, upgrading was simplicity itself as I used the 1-click install procedure provided by my hosting service, DreamHost.
Literally one click and, fifteen minutes later, the blog is upgraded.
Of course, you do need to do some advance preparations [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I met Luke Razzell at the social media cafe in London.
Luke is CEO of i-together, the UK company behind Blog Friends, one of the more useful applications for Facebook.
What Luke introduced me to, though, is Buzzspotr, a new web service he’s developing that’s currently in private pre-alpha testing.
Buzzspotr is [...]

Content summary: Shel’s travelling; FIR Listener Contest winners to be announced on Feb 6; new FIR Interview posted; FIR live on BlogTalk Radio Feb 9; Dan York reports on podcasting gear, Facebook, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; in conversation with Dave Briggs about BarcampUKGovWeb, and more; Subway/Quiznos lawsuit; Ryanair’s hottie ad: a [...]

Being able to record video of something and then share it with lots of people - YouTube, anyone? - isn’t a new idea by any means.
It seems there are any number of video sharing services that you can sign up for and use - see this long list by Robin Good, and this one from [...]

If you’re interested in using video in your communication plans but don’t really know where to start - what equipment to get or what software you’ll need - three excellent articles published today on Journalism.co.uk will give you some clear pointers.
Written by Andy Dickinson, who teaches digital and online journalism and is course leader [...]

Quite a major kerfuffle has developed in the past 24 hours over Facebook booting Robert Scoble out of the social network.
Facebook sent him an email that accused him of running an automated script which is in violation of Facebook’s terms of use.
Robert was indeed running an automated script as he explains in a post [...]

A couple of days ago, I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1 on my desktop PC, a two-year-old Dell XPS Gen 5 that’s running Windows Vista Ultimate.
Vista SP1 addresses some specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues and adds support for new hardware and some emerging standards. More details in Microsoft’s Vista [...]