WordPress 2.2.1

Just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.2.1 with no apparent upsets. It’s a refine­ment of the major 2.2 version announced a few weeks ago and fixes some of the things (about 43 of them) the new version broke, in par­tic­ular, the very fine ExecPHP widget that lets me create the category cloud and the Continue reading WordPress 2.2.1

Plaxo and LouderVoice

The regular version of Plaxo remains free, but the premium version costs $50 a year. That’s quite a lot compared to premium services of other web apps, but if you fit into the demo­graphic that Plaxo’s aimed at — mobile or work from dif­ferent loc­a­tions, tons of contacts built up over many years, fairly hectic schedule

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News Feeds

Over at curry­bet­dotnet, Martin Belam has produced OPML files for all the RSS feeds pub­lished by the eight leading UK newspapers.

This amounts to the aggreg­a­tion of 2316 dif­ferent feeds — though indi­vidual author feeds for the Guardian’s Comment is Free admit­tedly account for 1968 of these. A CiF-​​​​less version with 348 feeds

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PC Guy and Mac Guy agree about some things…

Bill G and Steve J – both *really* defensive about the rise of internet com­puting – in what seemed to me to be the most inter­esting segment of their inter­view at the D con­fer­ence. The rest of it is here.

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Widgets and Wrinkles

I was delighted to attend the Chinwag Live event on widgets last night — perhaps espe­cially since we’re having our own event on the topic next week, it was great to have the oppor­tunity to hear what people are thinking on the subject. The event was extremely well attended and there was some good

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(No) More Joost Invites

I have five more Joost invites in case anyone is left without one. The new version — 0.90 — features a couple more channels and smoother playback in case of network dif­fi­culties, according to the release notes.

I wonder if the jump in version numbers to 0.9 indic­ates anything about how close the program is to

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