Category Archives: Blogging

Mobile publishing. Welcome.

It’s a topic I read about almost every day, but so far i have barely experimented with mobile publishing. I can see the benefits, but in practice it’s too long winded and cumbersome to use for everyday publishing.
In the past i’ve made a few posts on the QueensSpeech blog using the normal Blogger interface [...]

Techcrunch.com Merges with FuckedCompany.com

Techcrunch.com’s Michael Arrington today announced his merger with FuckedCompany.com - a leading technology blog that documents failing web and software companies. I’m sure the two blogs will compliment each other, as they operate in two different ends of the publishing spectrum. Techcrunch.com tends to focus on new companies before and after launch - often using [...]

Magnum Photos launches the photographer weblog

Magnum Photos have finally launched their long awaited blog. In the words of Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendiksen
“The blog will illuminate the stories behind the images, explore the motivations behind the projects, discuss the systematic issues that affect all photographers, and explore the industrial and societal changes that inform our expectations of photography. The blog will [...]

Commentful secretly acquired

Commentful, the online service that tracks conversations through comments on blogs, has been quietly acquired by Bloggy Network. Kailash Nadh writes on his blog “I am positive that the new owners will take Commentful to the next level and make all the ‘blink’ lovers happy“. I hope his wish holds true, Commentful is by [...]

Terapad - the new kid on the blog

Sam Sethi of Techcrunch UK blogged over the weekend about a new blogging service providor (bsp) called Terapad. Terapad is ’social networking’ enabled by offering integrated rss reading, jobs/cv search, event calendar, image gallery, paypal and discussion forum support straight out of the box. Similar to what i said on Techcrunch, I think [...]

British blogger gets the chop

Okay, so i wouldn’t normally comment on this type of news item, but i thought this one had sufficient relevance. To quote News.com “A 33-year-old British secretary has launched a test case before a French employment tribunal after being sacked for writing a blog about her day-to-day life in Paris…” - not very encouraging for [...]