That’s right, I have taken the plunge and enabled Disqus commenting for the blog. I was originally in two minds as to whether I should go this route, I was unsure about having the comments held away from the site but soon realised that this is a minor issue when you look at the benefits Disqus...

I was driving home along the motorway last night and passed a lorry bearing the tag line “a brand is a promise” – it got me thinking. A brand is a promise It’s like a line from an inspirational speaker at a dodgy weekend, residential seminar but it does have a very valid point. Blogging...

Over the past month or so there has been a distinct feeling of unease spreading across the web with bloggers appearing to be increasingly insecure about their position in it. This first became really noticeable with the discussions surrounding the problem of fractured conversations. Having their posts...

Last week, Chris Brogan suggested that today, April 28th should be pronounced Read and Comment Day where we should all get out in to the blogosphere, find some good stuff and add your thoughts in order to progress the conversation. It’s a great idea and I intend to do exactly that but, in a sense, it...

In his post “The danger of social media falling in on itself” Steven Hodson argues that sites like FriendFeed could potentially kill the likes of Twitter or Flickr as more people interact with their contacts via the FriendFeed interface without actually visiting the source sites. While FriendFeed...

Blogging is all about getting your point across and being heard isn’t it? Actually, no. As I have said before, the real point behind blogging is getting involved with the conversation which must be a two-way affair for it to work. As bloggers we become so caught up in our own opinions and the desire...

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger posted a few reader questions around the issue of when to update existing content rather than create a new post. I commented at the thread but wanted to share my full thoughts on the subject here as well. The relevant questions were as follows: Is it good practice to continue...

For some unknown reason the permalink structure on the blog became corrupted overnight so, while you could reach the home page, none of the post, page or category links would work (thanks to all those who got in touch to let me know). The issue should now be fixed – I had to force refresh the permalink...

The discussion has continued around the issue of conversations prompted by blogs and where they should be held. Back in February I discussed the possibility of being able to comment directly from your feed reader in my post "It’s the conversation that matters". Now with services like...

Just before I went on holiday a discussion emerged around what the RSS feed service fav.or.it is or isn’t starting with Louis Gray’s post "Fav.or.it Beta Effort is Not My Favorite. Not Even Close". In this post he argues that fav.or.it is not living up to its initial potential citing...