A day without a progress bar is like an omelette without cheese
My typical working day consists of a lot of this:
Category Archives: technology
Open Data – it would be nice if it were true
Just as the country was unfreezing itself from our unaccustomed lengthy period of snow and ice, Dave Harte, as part of his taking over the running of the hyperlocal blog in his local area, laid a challenge before Birmingham City Council to make freely available – in an easy importable and mashable format – the [...]
They’re not the same, stupid!
The other day my friend Pete Ashton posted an article in which he declared he was no longer a Social Media Consultant. Sort of. Or rather, it’s not that he’s no longer doing what he’s been doing for a living for the last couple of years to go and do something else, rather, that – [...]
No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe
“European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer”. I trust in the spirit of fair competition, Apple is also going to remove Safari from OS X, meaning Mac users will also need to download [...]
Hovercraft still afloat 50 years on
“It all began with a tin of cat food, an empty coffee tin and a hairdryer. When air was forced between the two tins, the ensemble began to float on its own little cushion of air. Thus, through a combination of eccentricity and genius, Sir Christopher Cockerell invented the hovercraft, in a shed, in a [...]
Social Media for organisations
Nick Booth has written an excellent article in response to (although it actually predated it) a consultation Birmingham City Council are currently running about how to develop its Press Office service. It’s sufficiently general that it works as good advice for any organisation thinking about how to modernise its public relations activity; indeed, it serves [...]
Plugins used on this site
Because people like to know what plugins are used on WordPress blogs, I’ve found a plugin which does just this! Active plugins listed below are ones which are used on this site, and inactive ones are used on other sites I run: Active Plugins Inactive Plugins