Not a time for me to write a weighty post on the last day of 2008. No predictions, no recommendations – you have lots of choices for those things – just some reflections on people, places and events during this year that have influenced and informed my own thinking in…
Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: “About a year ago, as an experiment, I uploaded some audio onto Podango […]†Podango Warns That The End Is Near Podango Won’t Make It to 2009 and Neither Will Your Data Podango Podcasters 30 Free Days of Media…
Overflow from FIR #409 on December 29, 2009. News That Fits: Coal Front Group Sets Up Dirty ‘Blogger Brigade’ To Fight Reality Download this podcast (1.87Mb, 3:58) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)
Content summary: ‘Get well soon’ wishes to Chip Griffin and Jason Falls; the Shorty Awards; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses recent events in Australia, Papua, and China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: state of the Twittersphere report, do people want Twitter to have ‘search by authority’?,…
Could be someone’s epitaph. It couldn’t be mine: I have less than 12,500. :) Great contemporary geek cartoon by Oliver Widder who draws at Geek and Poke. Discovered via Smashing magazine and their terrific showcase yesterday of 50 Beautiful Examples of Comic Strip Art.
I’m not sure what to make of IntenseDebate, the third-party comment management system that’s been managing the comments, and the commenting process, on this blog since mid November. The screenshot above is probably as good an indicator as any of the sense of frustration I often have with this system.…
Loic Le Meur’s kick-start yesterday of a storm of discussion about his call for a means of searching Twitter posts by authority has just borne some early fruit in the shape of Twitority. Twitority is a search tool that lets you search Twitter posts and then filter the search results…
If you’re a podcaster and use the Podpress plugin on your WordPress blog to deliver your podcasts, you’ve probably been having a frustrating time of it during much of 2008. The last release of Podpress was version 8.8, released in December 2007. That’s a year ago, a very long time…
