*brushes dust off his LJ*

Well now, what has brought me back to these long-neglected halls of blogging? The news that The Independent (UK national newspaper, for you US, Aussie and other non-Brit types) has partnered with LJ to relaunch its blogs.

That and the decoupling of LJ's server infrastructure from Six Apart's has made me wander back to the ol ( Read more... )

Hello. Me again.

Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I'm still reading (and commenting sometimes) on LJ. But no, I'm not using it very much. And that bothers me. Why?

Well, while I was at Le Web 3 in Paris at the tail end of last year, I had the chance to catch up with the CEO of Six Apart, as we're enterprise customers of theirs. One of the things he ( Read more... )

I'm now getting more press releases as a blogger than as a journalist.

Heh.

Incidentally, you can now follow my WoW blog here on good ol'LJ by friending 
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1. I is on the Facebook.
   
2. I is needing the holiday, but there is no holiday on the horizon.
3. One Man & His Blog is all fixey-done into Movable Type 4. This is most flash, and you can leave comments there using your Livejournal account! Coolies! (You can still follow it as
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What are the positive and negative associations that you and those around you have with blogging?  Have attitudes changed over time?

Ah, good question, given that my day job* is getting a whole company's worth of journalists up and blogging. And, to be frank, the major problem is negative associations. Journalists' pre-conceived ideas of ( Read more... )

 My latest work update has been kindly provided by a Guardian journalist.

I may not appear until the end of the article, but my hidden hand is behind the rest.

Here's a little experiment. I hope it will solve a little problem.

You see, my number of blogs has been proliferating rather stupidly of late, but it's settled down to this Vox blog and One Man & His Blog as my main two. And I'm pretty happy with that set-up. I love Vox and find it a pleasure to use.

But I really don't want to lose touch with my ( Read more... )

...playing with Semagic.

Seeing how Windows Live Writer and Livejournal work together.

LiveJournal tags: blogging, software, windows live writer