by Rob Cottingham | May 9, 2006 | Blogging
So you’ve just found this amazing web site that, I don’t know, sells environmentally sustainable office supplies. And you think, “Damn, blogging could make a huge difference to these people! They have stories to tell, their business relies on... by Rob Cottingham | May 1, 2006 | Blogging, Online Community, Technology
The scoop. This is one of the online world’s more interesting success stories. Drupal, now arguably the leading open-source content management system, is attracting both a huge installed base (55,000 sites, according to drupal.org) and a snowballing developer... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 27, 2006 | Blogging, Politics
Gerard Kennedy and Maurizio Bevilacqua are, I’m happy to report, among the living. Bevilacqua was hanging out at the apparently un-Google-able maurizio.ca, and Kennedy’s site went live, as far as I can tell, today. Kennedy’s site is still a little... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 21, 2006 | Blogging, Communicating, Politics
While various political bloggers have been batting candidates back and forth for several months now, the Liberal candidates themselves have so far – with one or two notable exceptions – given cyberspace a wide berth. Several declared candidates have no visible... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 20, 2006 | Blogging, Communicating
You didn’t have to look too far on April 1st to find examples of web sites playing practical jokes on their readers. And you didn’t have to look much farther to find examples of readers who were getting mighty tired of the practical jokes. 2006 may go down... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 18, 2006 | Blogging
Firefox just automatically detected a new version 1.2 of Performancing, the Firefox extension that gives you a word-processor-like interface for writing blog posts. Funny thing is, even the Performancing web site is still listing the current version as 1.1.1. Which...