February 28, 2013
by ianforrester
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For the last 28 days I’ve been blogging every day. I did accept the challenge Tim Dobson pushed me. But I did break it by blogging more than once a day. Heck I like blogging and I couldn’t help myself… … Continue reading
February 4, 2013
by ianforrester
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Tim Dobson challenged me to this… Therefore, I want to post a blog post, everyday, for the month of February. What’s more, I want to challenge my friends, my colleagues … neighbours … pets etc to join me. Rules: Your … Continue reading
January 20, 2013
by ianforrester
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Finally got the ability to download my tweets… Over 6 years of tweets in 6.8 meg of files. It comes in a zip file not a tar file which is interesting because Facebook uses Tars for its data dumps. Structures … Continue reading
August 24, 2012
by ianforrester
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I’m wondering if I should bite the bullet and install these alpha and beta plugins under Cubicgarden.com? In my mind it seems what you need for a federated/distributed blogging system is just a few plugins away? OStatus for WordPress turns … Continue reading
August 15, 2012
by ianforrester
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Jon Udell asks, where have all the bloggers gone? Good question… I do tweet more than I blog, thats very true. I have Published 2,559 blogs (not including this one) and Tweeted29,087 (not including this one) but there not really … Continue reading
February 14, 2010
by ianforrester
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Evan Prodromou who I finally met at FOSDEM recently, has been running a poll to find out whats the best character limit for microblogging. For our flagship site, Identi.ca, which runs on the status.net cloud service and uses the 0.9.0 … Continue reading
March 18, 2007
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I have not blogged for quite a while. This is down to a few things. Ecto is simply doing my head in, as it keeps loosing draft entries and screwing up on the spellchecker. I paid for the software and … Continue reading
February 26, 2007
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I've heard about the problems but have not publiclly said much. But I'm sorry as far as I'm concerned, I stopped recommending Movable Type a long time ago and can't understand why people still use it. Suw's post on strange … Continue reading
November 26, 2006
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After my huge mind dump for Pipelines, I've now decided to start a new blog called Flow *. It will be about everything to do with pipelines. I'll sometimes cross post some gems here but generally the flow blog will … Continue reading
October 11, 2006
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Me and Sarah did a podcast last night, number 14 (really 13 but lets not go there). This time we discuss Second Life, Myspace and Youtube, Feast of Fools and Sarah's new (non-hand me down) phone. The other good news … Continue reading
September 27, 2006
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Me and Sarah did a podcast last night about some comments on her blog recently.The post was about race and interracial stereotypes and centres around a piece in the guardian over a year ago (march 2005). Now someones called werdz … Continue reading
September 18, 2006
by ianforrester
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Ben Metcalfe writes in response to Brad Templeton's post. At the blogger panel at Fall VON … Vlogger and blip.tv advocate Dina Kaplan asked bloggers to start vlogging. Its started a minor debate. My take? Please dont. Ive written before … Continue reading
August 17, 2006
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At long last, I can blog that Kevin Anderson our very forward thinking Worldservice journalist is leaving for a brand new position that he helped create. This is probably the worst kept secret, which is why I'm a journalist and … Continue reading
August 6, 2006
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I forgot I haven't publicly said anything about Ben Metcalfe highlighting the direct urls of the weather feeds. My take on the whole thing is simple – Security through obscurity. A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical … Continue reading
July 26, 2006
by ianforrester
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Michah Dubirko wrote this entry titled del.icio.us, blogging a while ago. I would take it slightly differently, and compare it to email. Since Del.icio.us applied the feature to send friends bookmarks to their bookmark inbox I've been really tempted to … Continue reading