Making it Yours — An Inept Guide to Website Design

And when I say ‘design’, of course, I mean theft.

Regulars will have noted that things don’t stand still for too long here on twopoin­touch. Apart from the post count. Fiddling with new themes and plugins is almost com­pulsive beha­viour. While I’ve only had around four long-​​​​term favourite themes over the last five years, there’s every chance

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What to do about Old Posts?

Your old stuff — the stuff you wrote before, even your best stuff — mostly turns bad. It always did, but the Internet remem­bers. The churl.

Most people don’t bother about it. I, however, am foolish.

I’ve recently started using the Broken Links Checker plugin on this site. It finds the articles and sites

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The Robert Scoble interview

What did I expect when I called Robert Scoble, perhaps the best-​​​​known blogger to have become famous for blogging? I wasn’t sure. Maybe someone very Californian. In the bad way.

Anyway, he isn’t. Yes, he’s laid-​​​​back and he did use the expres­sion ‘real good’. We only had a short con­ver­sa­tion, but I can imagine him being a big hugger. I like that

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yet another self-​​serving corporate blog

In what may be a PR mas­ter­piece, the new Yahoo! cor­porate blog is nothing but self-​​​​effacing. My headline is theirs for their virgin entry. “Oh, yes, we’re going cor­porate. But please don’t hold that against us. It’s a good thing, really,” they go on to say.

Signs are that this will be an inter­esting read. Major

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