Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
The new way to socially network, Twitter, is catching on fast, with celebrities such as Stephen Fry, William Shatner and Chris Moyles adopting this new (years old) way of sharing information and driving more subscribers.
For most sites, based on current trends, this eventually ruins a site as they reach saturation point and then make changes to try and keep people interested (see MySpace, Facebook in a few months), and eventually people will move on to the next big thing… (twitter?)
Thing is… do people get it?
I’ve had multiple people ask me “how do I use it?”, “what’s it for?” and “how do you use the @?” (answers here). These ‘complications’ could be Twitter’s saving grace – Is it too complicated to be adopted by the mainstream?
And – is this a good thing? Will more people ruin it? or turn it into the best social tool or news source on the web?
Either way – follow me here – www.twitter.com/tomsowerby
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
The band (you didn’t know I was in a band??) is currently writing some new material, and will hopefully be giving any new recordings away for free, watch this space!
There are also a couple of side projects in the works, more info soon!
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
The Gears of War Movie will be out soon, but which actors will be able to literally fill the massive Gears’ boots and make this film worth watching?
Here’s what we think might work
Comments? other ideas?
Thanks to the team awesome folk for the ideas so far (their website coming soon).
Friday, January 9th, 2009
I thought I’d write a quick ‘how to’ on posting to a wordpress blog from windows mobile using a free application called ‘moblog’.
First step: get moblog installed on your windows mobile device. moblog available here.
Step two: Log into your wordpress blog through the interweb and go to the admin panel dashboard thing. Then, in the writing post settings there should be an option about posting using xml-rpc, make sure that this is turned on or you’ll get the “there was an error” error message when trying to connect.
Part three: Back in moblog, create a new profile and enter the details for your blog (the login address field only needs to be the root folder, no need to link directly to any php files).
Lastly: Write some posts, writing of the body is done in html so that you can customise the layout, and check it in the preview.
Once you’re happy you can publish it. It will then appear in wordpress, it also delays putting it live for a few hours to give you chance to check it.
Job done
Hope that someone’s found this useful.
Friday, December 19th, 2008
Finally get around to a first post and I have to update wordpress, what’s with the constant updates?
Edit - although there is quite a shine to the 2.7 version!
