Category Archives: Opinion

Newshutch.com is Dead, Long Live gReader

By Bish | Published: 03/11/2007 – 01:08 | Posted in Design, Opinion, Web2.0 | Comments (2)

So after trying Sage (the excellent Firefox extension addon) many moons ago but concluding RSS readers should be hosted, I went through Rojo, Newsgator, Bloglines and some terrible ones I can’t even remember the name of, but none were what I was looking for. I also tried an early version of Google Reader and for all the good points about it I couldn’t stand the interface.

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Get Nik Daum a Publisher

By Bish | Published: 03/11/2007 – 00:04 | Posted in Design, Opinion, Personal, Quick, Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Just a quick note – if ever someone needs to find a publisher its this guy. Check out Nik Daum’s ‘dordles‘ (not quite drawings/not quite doodles) and be pleasantly entertained by his fantastic art and wicked sense of humour.

He is currently looking for a publisher and I am looking for books for my coffee table so if you know one, help me and him out!

$100 Million Feedburner Acquisition (Google – Again!)

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2007 – 23:42 | Posted in News, Opinion, Personal, Software, Web, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

FeedburnerWell according to a number of sources and specifically Techcrunch it seems Google has acquired the simply excellent Feedburner.

As a quick introduction for those that aren’t aware of it, Feedburner is the stats management package for your RSS feeds, monitoring a great depth of information from subscriber numbers to click through’s to your pages. It re-writes your RSS feed and allows you to add features and customisations adding greater value to both your readers and you as the site marketer or owner.

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Downtime and Errors

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2007 – 22:31 | Posted in Opinion, Personal, Quick, Wordpress | Comments (4)

Downtime

All my sites went down today for about 60mins around 5pm (GMT) with my host denying all knowledge. Not the end of the world but a reasonable explanation would have been appreciated. Especially as this is the 7th day this month there has been some length of downtime! I have been putting it off for ages but a few more issues and poor responses from my host and I might end up making the move. Where do you recommend?

Downtime for BenBishop.me.uk 25th May 2007

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Blogsphere Sanitises Google?

By Bish | Published: 09/01/2007 – 21:59 | Posted in News, Opinion, Quick, Web | Comments (0)

(I couldn’t resist, while I am on a roll I thought I’d post again….)

It would appear, and rightly so, that Google has remembered its informal corporate motto, “Don’t be evil.” – well with a little help from the blogspere at least. It seems that someone’s 20%1 turned into helping us all with tips (read prime advertising) at the top of certain search results on Google. Specifically targeting searches for software or services that Google has a competing product they handily suggested their software above the number 1 search result.

An example image of the Google Tips

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