Indieish - free, legal music…

Sun Apr 30

It’s no secret that I’m a music fan (not to mention a musician), and I’m also a big fan of free - but completely legal - music. So I proudly advertise Indieish, who continue to promote the cause of Creative Commons music brilliantly.

Free Music Daily - Indieish.com

The next few weeks…

Fri Apr 28

OK, I have to say that the next few weeks (OK, if I’m honest the next few months) will be a bit different. Don’t expect too many blog posts, and certainly not much geeky output. Quite apart from the huge pile of work I have on my plate, we are very excited to be awaiting the arrival of a small bundle of joy. That’s a baby, just in case you thought I had bought a Mac ;0)

Anyway, it should be within the next couple of weeks - the exact date will remain a secret until the baby decides to suddenly appear. So thanks for reading, stick around and I’ll be back occasionally.

Progress…

Thu Apr 27

I’ve been making quite a bit of progress this week, although there’s still a huge pile of ironing to do, the bedroom hasn’t been cleaned (ever) and the pile of paperwork that needs dealing with just keeps mounting up and up.

However I have finally got my head round this object-orientated programming fandange, and to prove it here’s something from my secret laboratory: the PHP DataTable Class

Believe me, it’s exciting to geeks like me.

Oh, the other thing I’ve done is decided on smll but perfectly formed Tiny MCE WYSIWYG editor for Wiblog 3. So that means the new Control Centre may be ready for playing with quite soon.

Why your company should not have a blog…

Tue Apr 25

With all the discussion on why blogging is great for man and beast (i.e. normal people and businesses) I thought I’d better give the other side of the equation. Sort of. Bear with me, this is going to be a rant.

10 reasons your business should not blog

1. You see customers as “sales” and not as people. As long as they keep giving you the money, who cares about engaging with them?

2. You’re doing fine, so why change anything? Traditional advertising has worked for years, and there’s no reason why it won’t continue to work for many years to come.

3. Blogs are OK, but you’re too busy, or important, or big to blog Hmm, maybe you could pay someone to do a blog for your company, it might become ‘viral’. The youngsters nowadays won’t notice, they are too stupid to tell it isn’t genuine.

4. You don’t trust your employees to write a blog. You think they are a bunch of lazy, unmotivated, disrespectful losers who will steal every pen and stop working every time your back is turned. Why risk giving them a voice? They don’t have any good ideas anyway.

5. You believe the marketing or P.R. department should be the ONLY place the public gets it information about the company. Any other voices will just confuse the issue.

6. You’re not ready for anything so cutting-edge or technical. Doing a blog is really hard, right? You need all kinds of expensive and complicated software, it’s certainly not something for a technophone like you.

7. Someone could say something bad about the company in the comments, and you believe that cannot be allowed to happen. It’s the first rule of business - never allow people to berate the company. (Closely followed by ‘never admit liability’).

8. You believe the public should be kept at arms length. The last thing you want is people sticking their noses into the intimate details of how the company operates.

9. You believe the web doesn’t really have a long-term future as a communication or advertising medium. It’s all just hype, it will blow over soon.

10. You have all the customers you want. Any more customers would just be a pain in the neck.

Hopefully there’s some food for thought in there. I’m certainly glad I got it of my chest :0)

Just keeping you up to date……

Sat Apr 22

I’ve nearly filled the Ideas Book. A whole 37 ideas for how to change the world through the power of the internet.

Now I just need someone to pay me to make all these ideas happen. The benefits? Working with one of the worlds greatest Wibsite developers, making cutting edge web apps and pots of money. The downside? Well, I can’t think of one, can you? ;0)