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Yet again, I write a title that runs the risk of ostracising and alienating roughly everyone who will be searching around the internet for stories about London Fashion Week.
They might well read the title, get very uppity, and not pay attention to what I am about to say, before writing a comment which largely echoes [...]

Wordpress 2.9 was released overnight!
Which means a day of upgrades for yours truly and the team, but the good news is that all of our sites, themes and plugins appear to be compatible from our rigorous testing.
Wordpress 2.9 is pushing wordpress further toward the complex multimedia CMS that we know it can be – for [...]

As you probably noticed, we’ve been having some problems this week, to say the least!
On Sunday night, we managed to have a massive hardware failure whereby one of our servers – the one which powers most of the WordPress driven websites – totally fell to pieces. We had to recompile everything from backup after rebuilding [...]

Use 24 Hour Trading’s link to an iTunes link maker tool to make your own iTunes links for a blog or MySpace.
All you have to do is click here to visit the link maker, enter the artist and country selection of your choice, hit ’search’ then click on the item you want to link to [...]

I know what you’re going to think “Rob, you’re always hammering the BBC, I actually quite like them! Their coverage of Glastonbury is boss, for a start (sic)!” – so before we get in to this, I will come out and say that I enjoy much of the BBC’s coverage, to the point where I [...]

The transition of Feedburner into Google’s team of web services has not been without its hiccups – particularly if the frequent “this might not work” and “that might not work” announcements which have populated the My Feeds pages in recent months are anything to go by.
There are also growing levels of discontent at the rocky [...]

Just a quick note to apologise profusely for my last two (or more) posts: blogging about blogging is an irredeemably dull, yet constantly mined seam.
I will try to avoid doing it in future.
There are even whole blogs devoted to blogging about blogging. If one is not careful, in one fell swoop, you could disappear into [...]

Finally, the BBC has started to give bloggers some credit, in a roundabout way, as this afternoons prime ministerial aide shenanigans indicates. One particular highlight of today was watching the BBC News Channel where ‘Guido Fawkes’ more than held his own while the BBC news presenter repeatedly made ridiculous statements such as:
Yes but, you bloggers [...]

Great News this week in terms of our development and ‘future proofing’ techniques has emerged, including the following hot topics that will see people like you enjoying content from people like us all around the world even more quickly, even more easily and, importantly, for years to come:
We’ve Gone iPhone and iPod Touch Friendly!
Yesterday, thanks [...]

I just updated with the latest version of Windows Live Messenger – a risk I know – and noticed that bundled within the package was a piece of software called Windows Live Writer.
What this software promised was the ability to publish blog posts directly from one’s desktop.
While I know of several similar programs and pieces [...]