There’s been a lot of chatter on Twitter and blogs about Paul Boutin’s Wired article Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004  over the last day or so, but I was most interested in Rory Cellan-Jones’ response Is blogging dead? on the BBC website.
Rory clearly believes that blogging is not yet dead and cites [...]

A very quick post to “pimp” a great new blog a friend of mine has just started called Scribble The Nibbles. My food fiend friend combines a passion for food with a lovely turn of phrase.
Well worth reading or adding to your RSS reader.

Remember when the web was a daily voyage of exploration? When you would literally “surf” from site to site following almost any link? Remember the days before RSS readers and bookmark collections?
Well I had a wonderfully retro moment of surfing exploration this morning; a Tweet from Elliot Jay Stocks led me to Sam Brown’s website, [...]

Whilst perusing Delicious earlier today I came across a really interesting post Introverts and Extraverts : Can’t We Just Get Along which in turn led me to another post by the same author The Introverts Strike Back.
I agree with the author’s basic premise that an introvert cannot or at least is very unlikely to become and extravert and [...]

Are you a bit of a dab hand with CSS? Can you make IE7 do what you tell it? Then I need your help.
You see in every browser except IE7 my menu links look like his on hover:
But in IE7 the background doesn’t fill the padded area on hover; there’s a background visible but it [...]

Following my recent posts on Yvon Chouinard and Let My People Go Surfing I was contacted by Sara White of Timex Expedition, who are supporting the US Conservation Alliance on a project called Return to the Outdoors which hopes to reconnect Americans “with nature and outdoor activity”.
Now not something I would normally blog about but they have produced an [...]