This article by Jim Turner opens with a great obvservation:
Many businesses don’t want to be the leader in new and different ways of corporate communication.  They like to be copycat for the things that work.  Until companies begin to embrace blogs as an online marketing tool and a way to communicate with clients and customers, […]

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Robert Scoble notes that the CEO of Facebook has used this blog entry to great effect, but wonders where the HP CEO’s blog is.
I think I have the answer - there’s world of difference between the CEO of a social-networking site apologising for pissing his user base off with a software release, and the CEO of […]

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I’m having an emotional battle with my bloody Xbox 360! I know it’s just a bit of fun, but when I see a post like this in my Attensa folders, I feel guilty…! I actually feel guilty about  leaving the poor thing sitting there all day when I’m out - and don’t get me started […]

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Well, here we are. You would not believe the pain-in-the-arse hassle I’ve had to get to this point.
I’ve changed web hosts, because GoDaddy don’t allow SSH connections, (Bluehost to the resuce!), but then found I needed to provide photo-ID to Bluehost before they would enable SSH on my hosting account. I’ve been cursing Firefox on […]

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Well, it’s almost ready! I’ve got Wordpress, mysql and PHP running on my local Ubuntu host. I’ve imported a theme that I really like and I’ve customised it so that I can display my Xbox Live Gamercard.
All I need to do now is back everything up; change the pointers on my Wordpress database to point […]

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As I mentioned in the previous post, I’d intended to move away from Quickblog and set up Wordpress instead. Having got some direction on this from the technical support guys at GoDaddy, I figured the best way to migrate with minimum downtime was to setup a Linux web, php and mysql server on my own […]

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