Life as a beta geek

One of the effects of blogging about the Tools of Change conference was that the traffic to this blog, which normally toddles along at an almost non-existent a charmingly amateurish level, increased by about two thousand percent in the second half of February. Looking at referral logs and responding to a few comments and emails has […]

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This is the first in a series of posts with my notes from 2008 Tools of Change conference, including presentations from Stephen Abram, Bill Burger, Douglas Rushkoff, Seth Godin and Ben Vershbow. The italicised passages are the descriptions of each segment from the programme, to provide some context. Any errors of transcription are, naturally, entirely […]

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I’m back using Wordpress. I enjoyed trying Movable Type very much, and it’s a fine piece of software. However, Wordpress is just that bit more usable (and the import function from Movable Type works flawlessly).
I’m going to be in New York for the O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference from 11-12 February. I’m really looking forward […]

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I’ve always enjoyed trying different blog software: over the years I’ve tried various iterations of Blogger, Movable Type and Wordpress, and when I read about Movable Type being open source going forward, I decided to give MT4 a try. I’ve used MT2 and MT3 and found installing them somewhat complicated — certainly compared to Wordpress, […]

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