Archive for June, 2007
Sorry, I couldn’t resist this.
I was looking through the excellent Top 10 best designed blogs this morning, and one of the comments suggested we looked at Thumblounge. So, of course, I did.
Only when I got there, I got this:
So I checked the SixApart status.
And I got this:
So, which is it? Available, or unavailable. And [...]
I’ve been messing about with blogs again. No surprise there.
But it looks like I’ve got to ditch at least one of my blogs. Maybe more. I’ve just read The Dangers of Too Many Sites, amongst other posts, and I think it’s time to prune.
I’ve started the Pro Blogging Community, which is taking a bit of [...]
COMOTIZED
Visual impressions.
First impressions are vitally important. As a blogger, you have a few seconds (at most) to grab your reader’s attention, and get them to read your content. The name is interesting, and makes me want to read what it’s all about.
The background and content colours are very easy on the eye, and the site [...]
Earlier, Anil Dash from Movable Type commented on my Movable Type Running Scared post. I was going to reply in comment, but I had too much to say for myself (SHOCK!), so thought I’d make a blog post about it.
The “losing ground” assertion is based on comments made on several blogging forums i frequent, and [...]
ORDINARY DAYS
This is the first of my blog reviews, requested from BLOGGST
I like the title - “Ordinary Days”. It’s a shame that ordinarydays.blogspot… and ordinary-days.blogspot… are both already taken.
The header. As you wrote in your post on Bloggst, it’s tricky trying to get it right. On a standard IE6 browser, at 1024 X 768, it’s [...]
Recently, Movable Type (corporate blogging platform of choice for ’sensible people’) announced that it would be moving it to Open Source.
So, why move a successful commercial platform to Open Source? As they say:
Why now?
We felt the perfect time was with the introduction of Movable Type 4, which is the culmination of more person years of [...]
I love the psychology of the internet, especially marketing of products.
Almost daily, it seems, we’re being treated to the outpourings of probably the best marketing team in the business - that of Apple. Their latest high-profile launch, that of the iPhone, is creating a huge buzz.
Check this article
So why is this? Is it a fantastic, [...]
