Managing RSS – How To Organise Feeds

January 14th, 2010

I read many blogs and websites every day. I consider it a massive fail if a site doesn’t have an RSS feed (I consider using feedburner important, especially if you’re in the world of marketing/tracking stats). Although the design of a website is important to me (yes those with blogspot default themes must be amazing [...]


How To Rename Folders in Google Reader

January 14th, 2010

As this is a fairly complicated process, I’ve made my own short guide to renaming folders in Google Reader.

Select a feed to put into the new folder.
In the ‘Feed Settings’ drop-down select ‘New Folder’:

Enter the new name for the folder:

Then


I was a web designer for a day

September 2nd, 2009

Today was the first of the Future of Web Design (pronounced FOWD) UK Tour by Carsonified; a company who love large type and are “love with the web”.
I’m not a designer.
I’m not a developer.
Why did I attend?
Well, I too love the web.
Unfortunately I’ve pretty much always lacked that part of the brain that’s [...]


Will you get bored of Twitter?

May 6th, 2009

Yesterday morning Paddy Donnelly posed the question to Stephen Fry “Do you think you’ll eventually get bored of twitter?” Unfortunately Stephen hasn’t given a response, maybe he feels his answer is ‘yes’.

For me, I think it will be a while before my answer isn’t ‘no’. Having enjoyed Twitter as an early adopter since early 2007 [...]


BlackOutIreland

March 5th, 2009

The IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association) wants to block access to certain websites by Irish Internet users.
They have written letters (Michele at Blacknight has published one of the letters) to Irish Internet providers telling them, under threat of legal action, to allow IRMA to tell them what websites to block. Meteor and Eircom has already [...]


Retweet This

March 4th, 2009

There is too much ReTweeting going on on Twitter. I agree.
Some of my friends had a bit of fun with this last night.


I Would Like To Meet…

February 10th, 2009

Rick started a meme.
At the 2009 IBA’s I’d like to meet:
PeterD
Aslinn
Elf In Amsterdam
Marie Boran
Burkie
Eolai
Michele
Danny
Grandad
Roy
Off the Meatrack
Oops there are a few more than 5 and here are plenty more!
However, I could repeat plenty that I have “met”. Some I need to meet properly, soberer. Don’t count on it though.


Yes, Google, we know there is crap on the internet but…

January 31st, 2009

For about almost an hour this afternoon Google screwed things up a little by labelling all of the internet as Malware. It was certainly a little alarming and a bit annoying as I would use Google *alot* and even in that short space of time. The link which resulted from every search result was a [...]


Human Kindness and the Internet

January 26th, 2009

The story starts with me, last Wednesday accidentally deleting my Music folder, rather than a single folder within that folder. Then, as I often to due to being constantly so low on space, emptied the trash. It was while the contents of the folder where disappearing – that I suddenly realised and cancelled before more [...]


managing email

January 13th, 2009

There are changes afoot, which you may have noticed, with occasional glitches or the lack of anything at this address. Basically I have been working on a variety of things behind the scenes, whilst attempting to keep everything looking as normal as possible in the mean time.
Unfortunately though I have been left with very little [...]