I guessed this would happen eventually: through one of the advertising aggregators I use for this blog a service I’ve been critical of has submitted an ad. Do I accept it? Advertising aggregators provide a service to companies by letting them place banner and other web ads on participating blogs. I’ve been trying FeedBurner, for … Read more
Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration points to Adobe’s new version of Contribute 4.0, which now lets you compose blog posts from within Microsoft Office. As Amit points out, who is going to shell out $150 for something which Windows Live Writer and a host of other tools let you do for free? (These tools allow … Read more
Some stuff I thought you might like: Is the search for productivity getting out of hand? Merlin Mann, who writes a blog on productivity (better words, he says, are ‘flow’ or ‘efficiency’) points out the absurdity of his readers trying every trick he mentions. “It’s like, hey, whoa guys, easy. We’re just talking here. This … Read more
I’ve been obsessively watching email subscription to my blog via Feedblitz and while we’re talking modest numbers here, it’s great to see people signing up. (It’s on the left hand side of the blog below my smarmy mugshot.) Much more personal somehow, than an RSS subscription. Which doubles the pain when someone unsubscribes. Was it … Read more
A new Loose Wire blog feature, collecting some links that aren’t necessarily new, but worth pointing out in case you missed them: Google’s News Archive Search – lets you search back through news articles several years, decades, even nearly a century back. Stories are listed by interest (whatever that means) but with three very handy … Read more