Category: Blogging

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are becoming more curious, more engaged and more vocal, the companies themselves are clinging to their strict and outdated policies, rules and control.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...

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Tuesday 1 January 2008 | Blogging | Comments (0)

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,...

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Saturday 22 September 2007 | Blogging | Comments (6)

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...

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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,...

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Saturday 5 May 2007 | Blogging | Comments (0)

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...

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Sunday 28 January 2007 | Blogging | Comments (10)

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...

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Thursday 31 August 2006 | Blogging : Movies | Comments (5)

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,...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

Tagged with: | Continue reading Filmstalker - My return to film writing

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...

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Tuesday 13 December 2005 | Blogging | Comments (3)

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...

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Sunday 9 October 2005 | Blogging | Comments (2)

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...

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Saturday 10 September 2005 | Blogging | Comments (1)

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...

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Saturday 3 September 2005 | Blogging | Comments (0)

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...

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Wednesday 20 July 2005 | Blogging | Comments (0)

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....

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Thursday 30 June 2005 | Blogging : Movies | Comments (3)

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,...

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Wednesday 22 June 2005 | Blogging | Comments (2)

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...

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Thursday 9 June 2005 | Blogging : e-learning | Comments (1)

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...

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Friday 15 October 2004 | Blogging | Comments (0)

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...

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Thursday 30 September 2004 | Blogging | Comments (0)

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...

Tagged with: | Continue reading Blog reviews work!

Sunday 19 September 2004 | Blogging | Comments (0)

Well here's the first entry, ever, and this is just a short introduction before the big Games Day chat...more on that later....

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