5 things I like about blogging
I have been ‘tagged’ with a ‘meme’ as I believe the kids are calling it these days. Ronald has passed on the task of writing on the topic of things I enjoy about blogging. So here’s my list.
Contributing to the collective development of a genre
‘Steam Team’ is a point in history where the knowledge and [...]
The state of the UK Web
At the start of this month I asked six questions about the state of the web. Not about new sites, but about the web as a while. The point of these questions was to judge perceptions, and then compare them against some results. Here are the results.
The six questions I asked are shown below; these [...]
The English language as markup
The English language has a sophisticated set of rules that help us understand the text that we are reading. So why aren’t we using these rules more often to enhance the way we edit documents on the web?
Anyone who has a built a content management system or blogging engine for general use will have bumped [...]
More Design Changes
The weather hasn’t been great this weekend so rather than go for a wander over the moors I’ve stayed in — accompanied by a little Beethoven and Bronski Beat — and tweaked the design a little. Welcome then to design 2007-2.4.
So what’s changed? Quite a lot actually but mostly under the bonnet. I have completely [...]
Statue at Fountains Abbey
This is one of the statues in the water garden at Fountains Abbey.
A Brief Introduction to Silverlight
On Monday Microsoft announced Silverlight, the next generation of web technology. This has been around for some time now under the development codename ‘Windows Presention Foundation Everywhere’ and has been touted by many as a “flash-killer”. This may be true, although I don’t think this is what Microsoft necessarily has in mind.
Like Flash, Silverlight is [...]