Posts Tagged: Internet

You may have seen the news that Google has added a tasks application to its Gmail email service. Well, the even better news is that since they recently added Google Labs to Google Apps email, I get to play with it also. I’ve tried a number of task apps over the years and not found… Continue Reading ›

Jon Hicks has just launched Helvetireader a wonderfully minimalist yet superbly usable theme for Google Reader. I’ve used Google Reader as my RSS application of choice despite it’s rather cluttered and ugly interface; I mean what is it with Google and pale blue? Anyway, I’ve tried the Better GReader plug-in and a few other themes… Continue Reading ›

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… Continue Reading ›

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 an… Continue Reading ›

Following my recent posts on Yvon Chouinard and Let My People Go Surfing, I was contacted by Sara White of Timex Expedition, who is 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… Continue Reading ›

I wrote about the FUEL Conference earlier and what a success I believe it to have been, but I didn’t go into my thoughts following the event. It strikes me that company culture is a key factor in a successful social and community strategy. The companies that are doing well and really engaging with their… Continue Reading ›