Opinions: Encouraging Comments and DoFollow Links

Posted February 22 by Dan Cryer

Since I started blogging early last year, I’ve noticed that I tend to get more feedback on my posts on Twitter (and now Google Buzz) than I do on my blog itself. Comments come rarely and are far outnumbered by the number of spam ones Akismet blocks for me. Now, I don’t blog for the...

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Moving on to pastures new

Posted February 19 by Dan Cryer

I got a call a couple of weeks ago about a great opportunity at a small full-package media and marketing agency in Leeds, Media Wow. After a short, successful interview process, I was offered the job on Monday. I’m going to be helping them create a web development department from scratch to compliment their recent addition...

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Google Chrome Frame

Posted February 11 by Dan Cryer

I’m sure by now, if you work in web development, you’ll have heard of Google Chrome Frame. The plugin for Internet Explorer that replaces the entire rendering engine with Google Chrome, on demand. Whilst I understand that this is a less than ideal solution, as if a user can install a plugin, they can probably...

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PHP UK Conference 2010

Posted February 11 by Dan Cryer

I’ve been meaning to post about this for weeks now, but haven’t got around to it. The PHP UK Conference is coming up on the 26th of February in London and my boss, Remo Biagioni, is one of the speakers. Here’s some information about Remo and the talk from the official site: Remo’s Bio: Remo...

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Google Buzz Followup

Posted February 11 by Dan Cryer

I posted on Wednesday, just as Google Buzz was announced, asking whether Google Buzz was just Google Wave done right. I’ve now had Google Buzz in my GMail account for just over 24 hours, and I think I can answer the question: Not quite yet. Why? Google Buzz has a lot of the hallmarks of...

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