Back in late 2000, I discovered ezboard – a message board network. A group of friends were organising an event in London (Intensity), and they set up the “Intensity board” – a message board where people could chat before and after the event. When I set up my own ezboard community in early 2001, I noticed that […]
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Does everyone need a full website?
This week, my dad got in touch to say his two WordPress self-hosted sites had been suspended by his web host as they had been hacked. I cleaned things up and the web host reopened the sites. My dad then asked if he could manage without a website, and simply use social media. There are […]
Introducing the Miniblog
There’s regular blogging (conventional blogs such as WordPress), and there’s microblogging (Twitter). I’ve been struggling with what to write about on my main blog, and I’ve also had difficulties completing my posts. It feels as though I need to write a certain length of post to justify publishing it at all. This means a lot of […]