As previously advertised, on Friday I made my way down to The O2 to have a nose about. I was there to check out the filming of a new advert highlighting all the goodly things available at the venue (priority ticket booking, access to private areas, etc) if you’re on the O2 network.
I gather that [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Trip to the big tent (or ‘What I did on my holidays’)
Idiots at the Hadley Stadium in Bearwood
This is a small rant. You see I’ve just got back from the Hadley Stadium in Bearwood where my usual footy game has been cancelled due to some idiot double-booking the pitch.
This is no occasional kickabout we’re talking about. The AtisReal 7-a-side league (now there’s a website that needs updating) has been going for the [...]
Blogging for the man
A couple of interesting things have been flung my way in recent days. First up there was the invitation to the mobile phone-sponsored secret gig that I went to (and indeed blogged about) a couple of weeks back. Now I’ve been invited to the Tory Party Conference and the filming of an advert for the [...]
A WP plugin post. How lovely.
It’s a bit navel-gazing but, in answer to a request, here’s the list of plugins used on my blog. Or at least hoarded just in case I need them one day.
AdSense Manager
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Audio Player
cformsII - contact form
FeedSmith
flickrRSS
Google Analytics
Google XML Sitemaps
InlineFeed
My Page Order
One Click Plugin Updater
Postalicious
Seesmic Wordpress plugin
Sociable
Twitter Tools
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
Wordpress Database Backup
Wordpress [...]
Links for 22 September 2008
Local Blogger of the Week: Chris Unitt of Created in Birmingham - Localmouth is a site that rounds up ‘placeblogs’. They were kind enough to ask me to do a short interview on what running CiB is like so I tried to cram as many links and refs to other people as possible.
Unlit in Birmingham
I had an email in the week about a little gig/party that someone was going to be hosting at their house - part of the (mobile phone sponsored) Unlit tour that has been making it’s way around the country for the past month. It sounded interesting so last night, after some Arstfest-related fun, I popped [...]
Better living through commenting
Not many people, percentagely-speaking, comment on blogs. A bit of Jakob Nielsen research showed that:
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
I write a lot of blog posts every week and it’s nice when someone [...]
Organising a film competition
I’m not quite sure what I’ve got myself involved in here.
I was chatting to Carl from Made Media a couple of weeks ago. He makes short films from time to time and aparrently, when he was living in Sheffield, he took part in a few little competitions - 24 hours to make a short film, [...]