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Today, I’m in the Chorley office.  My 1st visit for a few weeks.

(generic open plan office image)
I’ll be meeting with @stevecogan (IBM) to hear more about their next release of Lotus Connections v2.5
As well as catching with other colleagues in the office.

Technorati Tags: rss,feeds,feed readers
 

 
TechCrunch blogger MG Seigler recently blogged on Google Reader:  “Google-reader-still-trying-to-figure-out-this-whole-social-thing-still-failing“
I use Google Reader, but not as a social platform, purely as the back-end service that collects feeds that I subscribe to, and connects to various end-points I use to access the feeds.  In fact I don’t even use it as a the [...]

A short post… this link to the Commoncraft show was brought to me via Twitter; and has been blogged many times already.
But I like what Commoncraft do, and I like Twitter; they explain it better than me.

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Came across this in Read/Write web [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/seesmic_vs_twitter.php] the other day. Seesmic
So I thought I’d give it a go.  I’m guessing this is the next one up from Twitter – and they already working together. 
It’s updating my Twitter feeds too!
Nice!
Here’s my debut cast (if it can be seen from the [...]

Ok, it just had to be done. For curiousity sake more than anything else.
I’m quite impressed by the mobile interface, it sparse but functional. Obviously light weight but delivers all the aspects for blog creation and management, the richer browser cousins do – even down to the stats.
Only in the graphics and images does [...]

This looks like a very useful plugin to have.
 
Rahul Soni’s blog – Never assume the obvious is true… : Social Bookmarking Tags for Windows Live Writer
 

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First I came across this linked article in Peter’s Blog:
peterdehaas.net: Blogs in Plain English
which in turn linked to Jesse’s blog and Commoncraft
These Commoncraft videos are excellent, simple straight forward and make new technology concepts easier to grasp and understand their relevance.
 

Commoncraft on Social Networking
Commoncraft appear on Youtube and Facebook.
Links [...]

Just a note on the present wave of favour around Twitter in my online social circle…
Having signed up and bookmarked in del.ici.ous in March; and let it lie.  I’m now behind in the game; as Steve, Graham and Stuart are twittering frequently…
Twittering On 
Twitter  
 
and now there will be updates from LotuSphere2008 …
 
http://twitter.com/Lotusphere
 
May be it’s Facebook, [...]

Rob Scoble and Read/WriteWeb have already posted about this.  So I’m going to follow suit, and give it a go.
 
You can try it out from here: http://www.feedhub.com/
 

Technorati Tags: Feedreader, FeedHub

Stuart has outlined his suggestion for an improved blog reader and aggregator here. Similarly Steve has also recently made his comments known on this issue. Perhaps Stuart should send his feedback back to Nick Bradbury?
Personally my preferences have been outlined here (you’ll have to scroll to the bottom to find the bit on blogs).
WordPress and [...]