tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17732902024-02-28T18:38:43.738+00:00The Bleeding Edge of TechnologyThe online ruminations of a pair of UK IT journalists and consultants...Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-1139926355644566122006-02-14T14:12:00.000+00:002006-02-14T14:12:35.656+00:00Finding blogs with Blogcode<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I've been playing with <a href="http://www.blogcode.com/index.php">Blogcode.com.</a><br/><br/>It's an interesting idea, a tool that allows collaborative review (and then comparison) of blogs. I've used it to add basic reviews of my sites - they encourage multiple reviews from different people, so feel free to add your impressions of this blog!<br/><br/>Apparently the most similar blog to this one is currently <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/">Robert Scoble's</a>...<br/><br/><br/>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/blogs" rel="tag">blogs</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/blogging" rel="tag">blogging</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tools" rel="tag">tools</a></div>Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-1137534552779655952006-01-17T21:49:00.000+00:002006-01-17T21:49:14.403+00:00Testing Bleezer<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">A quick post to try out <a href="http://www.larryborsato.com/bleezer/">Bleezer</a>, a new Java-based blogging tool.<div class="bleezer-tags"><p style="font-size:10px;text-align:right;">Technorati: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/bleezer" rel="tag">bleezer</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogging" rel="tag">blogging</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/tools" rel="tag">tools</a><br/>del.icio.us: <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/bleezer" rel="tag">bleezer</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/blogging" rel="tag">blogging</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/tools" rel="tag">tools</a></p></div></div>Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-1129889529899761352005-10-21T10:06:00.000+00:002005-10-21T10:12:09.936+00:00Flocking<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.flock.com/">Flock</a>, a Firefox variant for working with blogs and social bookmarking services is now available as a developer preview. We heard a lot of buzz about it when we met up with the folks from varios blog search companies in September.<br/><p>Now to see if it meets the hype.<br/></p><p>I've configured it to work with my main two blogs on two different services. It's relatively easy - as long as your blog host supports ATOM, and you know the URI of the ATOM API for your blog.<br/></p><p>You can download a build <a href="http://www.flock.com/developer/">here</a> if you want to give it a spin.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p></div>Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-1128180253848095722005-10-01T13:24:00.000+00:002005-10-01T15:25:56.966+00:00Testing Semagic Blogger supportJust testing the <a href="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</a> support in my blogging tool of choice, <a href="http://semagic.sourceforge.net/">Semagic</a>, before launching my new Blogger hosted blog.<br/><br/><a href="http://itphasechange.blogspot.com/">A New IT World</a>: Coming soon.<br/><br/><i>"The world of enterprise IT is changing - from server to desktop and everywhere in between.<br/><br/>You've heard the buzzwords: service architectures, loosely coupled applications, virtualisation, serialisation, network storage, network processing. These are just some of the ways in which the way we do IT are changing - a change that will have as much effect on the way businesses work as the arrival of the desktop PC."</i><br/><br/>Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-1122853629969623472005-07-31T23:44:00.000+00:002005-08-12T19:28:44.066+00:00New Blog HomesIt's been a while since we posted anything here - and that's because we're currently blogging (rather a lot) elsewhere...<br /><br />Simon is blogging at <a href="http://www.simonbisson.co.uk/">www.simonbisson.co.uk</a> and Mary is at <a href="http://marypcb.livejournal.com/">marypcb.livejournal.com</a>.<br /><br />See you there!Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-28409372001-03-19T12:22:00.000+00:002005-08-12T19:31:24.136+00:00Search Engine PoetryMary: I started off searching the Web for a carpet fitter who could come and show me samples for the hall, but along the way I discovered a new game; search engine poetry. Google and some other search engines show you the fragments of text that have produced the match with your search terms, and even omitting those from porn sites where words like carpet are mixed in with a trail of 'hot words' so they'll appear in innocuous searches, there's some stunningly surreal prose appearing from this.<br /><br /><i>... so chaotic before leaving to London ths time.... well ... internet cafe<br />in Putney (and no David) ... panther, a magic carpet and an angel ... I think they sample the<br />Soft Cell ...<br /><br />... were able to sample 'Injura' for the ... which closely resembles carpet<br />underlay. Generally Injura ... Arriving back in London, the weather ...<br />arrived in Putney. We hadn't ...<br /><br />Tiny teens dividing carpet nyphomanics<br />mexico instant in london are the affiliate ...<br /><br />for job sample ... to has shows carpet monster not shows ...<br />... in dark wood, a chinese carpet, beautifully coloured lay on the ... me. I<br />lived in London.<br /><br />All this was after he ... He had a bicycle shop in Putney." She added to ...<br />... 52 Festive Road, Putney apparently where creator ...<br />show around South London in the last ...<br />visit to the shop.<br /><br />Hunter.<br />Nothing ... Frogman. Magic Carpet Bloke.<br />Astronaut ...</i><br /><br />At this point I dived into the Mr Benn Web sites and discovered that: only 13 episodes of Mr. Benn were ever made, that this narrative can be seen as a rejection of the commerce environment which keeps Mr. Benn from entering into the rest of society, that the Magic Shopkeeper is a character who has been printed on t-shirts more than most other Seventies animated television characters.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/96-97/9339641b/project/htmlp/benn.htm">Mr Benn Case Study</a><br /><br />Pleasantly surreal...Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-18266912001-01-01T11:52:00.000+00:002005-08-12T19:31:57.296+00:00China OnlineOne of the best of the current crop of British sf and fantasy writers is China MiƩville. His <i>Perdido Street Station</i> is a wonderfully dark story in the vein of Ian MacDonald's <i>Desolation Road</i> and of M. John Harrison's <i>Viriconium</i> series. The Register has just published one of his short stories: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/32/15732.html">An End To Hunger</a>. Enjoy.Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-17931912000-12-28T19:53:00.000+00:002005-08-12T19:32:18.820+00:00Baldwin's BrunoOne of the best online comics around, and definitely one of our favourites is <a href="http://www.baldwinpage.com/bruno.html">Christopher Baldwin's <b>Bruno</b></a>. Give it a visit today!Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773290.post-17733552000-12-26T18:10:00.000+00:002005-08-12T19:32:56.993+00:00Read Me, Start MeWelcome to www.sandm.co.uk's Blog. It's intended to be an infrequently - or frequently (depending on how we feel) - updated list of thoughts, links and what-nots from the online lives of Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe...Simon Bissonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15093244547631677904noreply@blogger.com