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Scared of employees blogging? Try using them.
Saturday 9 August 2008 | Blogging : Internet : Knowledge Management | Comments (2)
What do you do when your employees are blogging? What, you think they aren't? Even if you don't have technical people in your employ the chances are that some of them are blogging. Maybe not under their name, perhaps under a pseudonym, and maybe not about your company, but then...Employ bloggers, don't kill them
Tuesday 8 January 2008 | Blogging : Knowledge Management | Comments (0)
While the learners, users and customers of companies are becoming more curious, more engaged and more vocal, the companies themselves are clinging to their strict and outdated policies, rules and control. They are in danger of, and already are, losing employees and customers who could be benefiting their organisation. While...Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you all. This year things have been a bit sporadic on this site, mainly because I've been doing so much on Filmstalker, and in 2008 that doesn't look set to change, in fact things look set to get busier. Not only is there Filmstalker to do,...
Solicitors attack site and freedom of speech
I was reading an article the other day about blog owners and the liability of comments made on their blog. The story looked at some cases where companies had threatened to, and actually begun legal proceedings to, sue the individual blog owner for comments that other people had made to...
Upgrading to MovableType 4
Monday 27 August 2007 | Blogging : Technology | Comments (2)
I'm back. I've neglected my own blog for too long, so I decided to return to it and give it a little revamp, starting with MovableType 4. One of my friends had already done it and he didn't have many problems, so I thought I would give it a go,...Lost Emails
Quick plea here, and my apologies, I've just had a wee accident with my email and lost a few. Anything sent to either my personal or Filmstalker email accounts between approximately Friday 23:00 and Saturday 10:00 (GMT/UTC) has been lost. I was trying to alter some settings for remote mail...
Site update - New Feed and updated design
You may notice some things look a little wonky on the site at the moment, well that's because not only did I upgrade from 3.2 to 3.34, but I decided to refresh and update the templates that go along with the site. That's where I went wrong. It's proven a...
Sites stealing content
What do you do when other sites are picking up your content and they aren't even giving you credit? Just a simple source or via link? It's something that is really clear cut if a site is copying your entire article, because it's provable then, they have all your words,...
Working on Filmstalker
Wednesday 26 April 2006 | Blogging : Moans : Movies : Writing | Comments (4)
That's my life at the moment. When I'm not working, I'm living and breathing Filmstalker, and do you know what? I'm loving it. This weekend I just survived Dead by Dawn, the Horror Film Festival in Edinburgh that is running into its thirteenth year, and doing superbly well as it...Arrogance on the Internet: Crediting sources, self promotion and respect
Thursday 6 April 2006 | Blogging : Internet : Moans : Writing | Comments (4)
I'm angry at a number of specific people as well as a genre, shall we say, of Internet users for the continuing arrogance and abuse of content, authors rights, and people in general. It seems that with the use of the Internet something is forgotten, common decency, respect, the following...Filmstalker - My return to film writing
Tuesday 14 March 2006 | Blogging : Movies : Writing | Comments (5)
Some of you will be aware that in late February, after some one and a half years writing for The Movie Blog (as well as being in three audio editions!) I suddenly disappeared. However, I am finally back and have my own site to talk about and discuss Film news,...Movie Blog wins award
Sunday 8 January 2006 | Blogging : Movies : Writing | Comments (5)
This is a great finish for 2005 for me, news that The Movie Blog has won a readers Blog Award for the Best Movies Blog. That, for those of you slow on the uptake, is a an award voted for by people who read the InterWeb and our site, and...I'm not losing interest in Blogging...
It's interesting that I now find myself under so much pressure to write entries in my Blog. All around me people post daily to their sites, posts comprising of a few lines of something that has happened in their day, or some short observation, and sites that discussion Blogging are...
McGuffin
According to Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), a McGuffin or MacGuffin is: ...in film, a plot device that has no specific meaning or purpose other than to advance the story; any situation that motivates the action of a film either artificially or substantively; also written...
Redesign is done!
It's done! I've just finished the changes to the site, and I'm pretty chuffed with it. I think there will be tweaks and such as I go along, but for the most part it's looking good and I do feel it doesn't look like most of the other sites out...
Site redesign
I've been thinking on doing this for some time now, and it's going to be my first official redesign since I built the site and learnt HTML on the way! I started off with a test blog and playing around with the settings there, but I've realised I needed to...
I'm back!...Almost
You wouldn't have realised most likely, but I've been away. I've moved hosts...well...twice. The first move was a complete disaster and the second move was really pretty good. That's where I'm at now and I've nothing but praise for them. Reviews will follow, but here's the gist....
Reviewing movie screeners
During a movie review I hit quite a dilemma. I'd received a screener (a free copy of a movie given to reviewers to watch and review) and I didn't enjoy it. Now in normal circumstances I wouldn't have bothered too much, written the review the way I had called it,...
Movie Blog downtime
Bad news, The Movie Blog is down again. The hosting company - I use that term loosely - has suspended the account due to overuse of Server processing time. It seems that our comments.cgi script was eating away at their system. So they've brought us offline again and John has...
Corporate and Project Blogging
What are you doing right now? You're learning. You're reading my Blog and learning something. Okay I won't vouch for the educational effectiveness or the quality of the content you're learning from, but you're still reading about me and my views. That's learning isn't it? That can so easily be...
Writing about movies...
I'm excited. I know it happens only a few times a year, so I have to shout about it. I've just written my first two posts on The Movie Blog. It's an excellent site with completely biased views on movies and everything about movies. I've been following it for a...
Blog reviews work!
I wrote a review for a restaurant\bar that I'd been to a few weeks ago (and returned to since) and it was positively glowing. Now I really am one to complain about things, as my friends will testify to. If I'm not happy with something a famous angry from Edinburgh...
Opening Night
Well here's the first entry, ever, and this is just a short introduction before the big Games Day chat...more on that later....