Xkcd's latest cartoon pretty much sums up how I feel about a lot of this social media rubbish that you keep reading about.Although the prize for most offensively described event has to go to IT@Cork with their idiotic description of an event to "increase an organisation's IQ"! Talk about marketing speak gone insane! … [Read more...] about Bloggers Taking Themselves Too Seriously
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Official Google Blogs Now Accepting Comments
While I've always found the official Google blogs to be good sources of information they lacked interaction as comments were disabled.They've now changed their policy and are accepting relevant commentsFrom what I've been able to work out they haven't enabled comments on all their blogs as yet and Google staff don't seem to be engaging with the public. So it seems like it's a … [Read more...] about Official Google Blogs Now Accepting Comments
Minor Change To Comments Policy
In order to preserve what little sanity I have left I've changed the way comments are handled on here slightly.Since comment and trackback spammers seem to target old posts I've decided to automatically close comments on posts that are 6 months old or older.The old posts that were attracting the odd comment were mainly to do with older versions of Ubuntu etc., so there's not … [Read more...] about Minor Change To Comments Policy
Blogger Wanted For Canadian Charity Gig
Ross from Tucows is a keen cyclist (and photographer) and is taking part in a charity cycle later this year. He's looking for a blogger to help promote the event and get them lots of coverage.More details on his site … [Read more...] about Blogger Wanted For Canadian Charity Gig
Pet Hates – Wannabe Blogs
One of my pethates (I seem to have a lot!) is blogs that aren't actually blogs. All they seem to have is the person's Twitter updates and maybe their latest saved links. Either blog or don't. I don't mind if you don't post that often, but if I wanted your Twitter updates I'd just subscribe to that instead. … [Read more...] about Pet Hates – Wannabe Blogs