That’s what I’m doing currently. Gestating ideas, for an innovative new business and also for my writing (and as an extension to both – my weblog). So apologies for the lack of blogging, but I expect to deliver a nourishing meal-sized Read/Write Web entry by end of next week. Feel free to snack on my … Read more

I promised not to focus on web design, as it’s not my niche. But I remain a keen amateur designer, as all Web junkies are, so I want to jot down some notes on Jason Kottke’s re-design. I haven’t read through the 995 comments that people have left on his site, nor have I seen … Read more

I’ve always wanted to namecheck that great Velvet Underground song. I wore my teeth in my hands…So I could mess the hair of the night. Anyway, Sébastien Paquet has posted a suggestion to improve the Topic Exchange – which reminded me of my own efforts to ignite the topics community over a month ago. Here’s … Read more

In my travels today I came across some articles about how Generation Y (people born in 1980’s or 1990’s) use Information Technology. I’m a Generation X’er myself, so Generation Y has always been something of a curiosity to me – as other generations always are, no matter which part of the timeline you come from. … Read more

It’s fun to be a Generalist, you get to explore a variety of different topics and it often makes for good blogging. People don’t really know what to expect when they see a new Read/Write Web item in their RSS Aggregator (although given my current experiment to try and blog a “short and pithy” post … Read more

For what it’s worth, I’ve re-validated my homepage to conform to XHTML Transitional. Thanks to the people who left comments and emailed me about issues relating to validation. The two main culprits in validation always seem to be the ‘&’ character and non-closed <br> tags. Joe Lindsay also pointed out an undefined html entity in … Read more

I was going to leave a comment at Lucas Gonze’s weblog, but I may as well use trackback and hope he sees this. Lucas posted a follow-up to his “whine that policing unauthorized music on Webjay is turning into a huge drag”. He is considering a form of community moderation (suggested by Seb Paquet). I … Read more

Good timing Google! Adding search functionality to my site was on my To Do list for this month and Google has just announced a new AdSense for Search feature. It allows website owners to add a search box to their site and potentially earn some pocket money with ads that display with the search results. … Read more

Cool, I’m Feed of the Day at Feedster! btw regular readers may’ve noticed I’m posting more frequently now. Shorter, pithier posts. But I plan to continue the long-form entries too (like last nights). I’ll see how this experiment goes… Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

Lucas Gonze, creator of WebJay, said today: “Policing unauthorized music on Webjay is turning into a huge drag. The problem is that I have to impose my puritanism on others, which is absurd.” By “puritanism” I presume he means being morally pure and obeying the law of music copyright. Now, I like WebJay and admire … Read more

Don’t worry I still like blogs 😉 I was thinking it would be amusing to change my name to The Artist Formally Known as Read/Write Web and write a post entitled ‘Slave to RSS’. But that would be a bit silly. Besides, I don’t have enough graphical ability to design a symbol! I do need … Read more

In answer to all the blogs I’ve read today: 1. No I don’t want a friggin’ Gmail account. 2. I don’t want to read your opinion on Dave Winer closing down 3000 weblogs.com blogs. 3. I don’t even care about Firefox 0.9 being released. Maybe I’m just in a bad mood today. Sigh, I think … Read more

When I was a very young child, perhaps 5 or 6, I wrote a poem that got published in The Timaru Herald newspaper. My first published writing. I think I may’ve dreamed recently that I’d found a copy of it on the Web. I can’t recall (I’m not good at remembering dreams). Or maybe I … Read more

Knowledge Management is a term that many people dislike, myself included. Firstly it’s a misnomer – you can’t “manage”, at an organization or corporate level, something as subjective and contextual as knowledge. It’s even debatable whether you can manage knowledge at a personal level – because we don’t always know what we know. Secondly, the … Read more

In my previous post, Stasis and Synchronicity, I scratched the surface of something that’s been bothering me recently. I’ve been sensing a degree of stasis in the blogging world, not to mention in my own life (and given what I wrote 12 days ago about weblogs being avatars, perhaps the two are intermingled). I finished … Read more