Google Notebook is Useful

Information Work Online Experiment post collection
Show-N-Tell Chronicles
Although I started using the note collection feature of the free online Office Live Workspace at this year’s beginning I have subsequently switched to Google Notebook. From the perspective of building a centralised notebook repository Google Notebook is more feature-rich.
Where meetings and conferences provide wi-fi access then Google Notebook [...]

Blogging 2.0 is Upon Us Already

According to some we are entering into the next phase of blogging inevitably named Blogging 2.0.
Duncan Riley (blogoz panellist and ex TechCrunch blogger) has recently created his own professional blog, Inquistr. He takes a cogent look at  ‘blogging 2.0′ where all of a person’s social media activity on sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube as well [...]

An Intermediation Machine

I am a regular reader of Mark Bradley’s Markets are Relationships (MaR) blog but it is like a robot with no soul. Today at 09:55 exactly my Google reader reports 5 posts appeared and another 5 at 11:18. Somewhat annoyingly the feed only show 2.5 lines of content split mid-sentence, but I suppose it is [...]

Giving ScribeFire a Test

Following Peta’s example I am giving ScribeFire a test on this WordPress blog. Being a Windows Live Writer and a Windows addict it will be a difficult for ScribeFire to come close. So far the editing and spelling features are working well although I am already feeling the lack of keyboard shortcuts.
Devices like the Eee [...]

Twitter Your Clipboard Contents with ControlC

I was intrigued by the Lifehacker post about the ControlC clipboard history site. Using a small client you have to download and install ControlC copies the contents of your clipboard each time it changes to your area of their web site. According the ControlC the clipboard contents are encrypted and private. Visiting the web site [...]

Personal Twitter Blog

I just could not resist a trial of the new ‘personal twitter’ template called Prologue that the guys at WordPress.com released last week. Reluctant to turn this blog into a twitter interface I had to sign up for another blog called Twitter with Michael at http://twittterpress.wordpress.com.
It turned out to be very easy to use, [...]

Backing up Blog Entries Online

Once again my favourite cable TV technology programme, The Lab With Leo, came up trumps. In episode 139 Leo Laporte’s guest Tris Hussey, the regular blogging guy, talked about BlogBackupOnline. This online service trawls the feed for your blog and on request performs a full backup of all posts and comments in your blog. You [...]

Blog Usage Survey

I tried another Ask500People survey question today which was simple ‘Do You Use Blogs?’. 72 people responded from 31 countries. The possible answers were:

I don’t read blogs
I read blogs from other people
I write my own blog and read the blogs of others

Some of the respondents locations are:

The spread of answers was:

It seems that [...]

Blogs as Venues for Scholarship

As the facilitators of the Blogging Research session at BlogOz attest there are many examples of blog posts contributing to research work which is subsequently written up in traditional research publications. A recent Wire Campus blog post by Andrea Foster gives a powerful example of a blogger being invited to be the second author of [...]

One a Month for 2007

Following the spirit of Peta’s example these are the first sentences of the last post for each month in this blog:
 

Jan
Hooked on River of News
Since switching to Google Reader I now read all my RSS feeds via the ‘All’ view.

Feb
Massive Multi-authored Online Book Takes Off
Following on the heals of my blog entry on facilitating book [...]