The Report Of Blogging’s Death Was An Exaggeration
I’ve been blogging for a long time now: on pre-blogging sites where I kept a travel journal 10 years ago, then starting here in 2004 and my business blog in 2005. I know that blogging isn’t for everyone, but it is for a lot of people, and I take a lot of pleasure in helping [...]
Chicken Farmers host a Toronto food blogger meetup
I knew that I would like the people behind the Chicken Farmers of Canada social media the minute that I saw their Twitter bio: And how can you not like a group that organizes a free Toronto Food Bloggers Meetup with an interesting panel of speakers at Edward Levesque’s Kitchen, complete with tasty chicken appetizers [...]
Canadian Blog Awards
Tomorrow is the last day to vote for my business blog, Column 2, in the Sci/Tech category of the Canadian Blog Awards. Get over there and vote!
WordPress 2.7
I’ve just installed WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 on this site, as a test before I roll it out to my business blog. If you see any weirdness with it, please let me know by adding a comment.
New Theme
You may have noticed (if you don’t read this via RSS) that I’m playing around with a new theme on this blog — I decided that it needed something a bit more colourful and whimsical. This is a free WordPress theme called Notepad Chaos from Smashing Magazine. No widget support, and I had to dick [...]
Blogging course
There’s an online course on blogging that’s available for free if you blog about it (which might seem counter-intuitive). Anyway, you have to give it a plug in order to get free access, which is what this post is about. I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, [...]
Comment trolls
I have a comment troll over on my business blog, and it’s painfully hard to do the right thing, which is to ignore them. Feeding the trolls only ever results in more insulting comments; luckily, as the blog owner, I can “unapprove” the comments instead so that they are hidden to all but me. They [...]
Me and W.R.
What’s more flattering than being adored by a chicken?
A social media convert
Damir, my other half, is a much more traditional engineer than I: he likes to ponder over new technology for a while, while I’m leaping about in it, shouting “c’mon in, the water’s great!” and trying not to get eaten by the sharks. When he does jump in, however, it’s with both feet. In the [...]
Repatriating my business blog
A year and a half ago, I was invited to move my blog over to a site that was more of an old media site, but covered the technology space that I do: business process management, service-oriented architecture, business intelligence and other integration technologies. However, I’m blogging about all sorts of other things now, so [...]
