As I was trawling through this morning’s updates in my FriendFeed, I came across an interesting post from Loic Le Meur saying that while his blog used to be the central point for his online presence, using services like Twitter, Flickr, del.icio.us, Dopplr, etc has fragmented that presence.
He goes on to point out that, […]

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The latest update for Windows Live Writer is available for download; in addition to a bug reported here, it also seems to contain a couple of extra, and unsolicited surprises. When the installer starts, you click through the ToS, and are faced by this:
I just wanted Live Writer installed on my computer - I have […]

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Over the last few months, I’ve found it increasingly difficult to summon up the motivation to write any blog posts.  It wasn’t as though there was nothing to write about; I just felt that I had nothing of value to add to the conversation that wasn’t being said elsewhere. I think it comes down to […]

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As a regular Splashblog user, I was disappointed to receive an email today from them saying that the service will be terminated in early September. It seems that having acquired Splashdata last year, Six Apart now want to kill off Splashblog and shift that community over to Vox.
I use Splashblog on my Windows Smartphone, but the […]

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I like Twitter. It’s cathartic and voyeuristic at the same time; it’s like passing notes at the back of class, but ”all growed-up”.
Even so, it’s not easy to find people that you want to follow and engage with. Something I would like to have with Twitter is the ability to subscribe to “drive-by Twitterings” - so, […]

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At the beginning of May, I asked if my blogging tool of choice, Microsoft’s Live Writer, was ever going to be developed beyond Beta 1, and it seems that my wish has been granted because yesterday, Beta 2 was released.
Cosmetically, it doesn’t look that much different to Beta 1 - although, the colour scheme and […]

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