BlogJet: why, oh why…

Now, I love BlogJet. But why is it that whenever I load it up, it’s always in a small window, no matter what size it was when I closed it last?

And then, when I click to maximise the window, why ON EARTH does it shoot across the screen, and remain small?

It always takes a second click to get the window to a half decent size…

Tags: blogjet

How to write an ebook

Seth Godin has put a Squidoo lens together on writing ebooks. It contains some excellent advice:

• Write something worth reading!
• Put it into Word or a similar word processor.
• Change your page layout to wide.
• Even better, change your page size to eight inches wide and six inches high.
• Use a legible font for the body copy. Times is fine, but boring. Don’t use something fancy.
• Use a headline font with bravado!
• Now, if you have a Mac, just choose, “print to PDF”.
• If you don’t have a Mac, go buy one and repeat the previous step, or, if you must, figure out how to do that step with a PC or a Commodore 64 or whatever it is you’re using.
• Your eBook is now basic, but done.
• If you open it in Adobe Acrobat (not the Reader, but the for sale version) you can add hyperlinks. Recommended.

Tags: seth+godin, ebooks

Yahoo! Mail has unlimited storage

TechCrunch announces that Yahoo! Mail now offers unlimited storage – obviously a better deal than Gmail’s 2.8–odd gb.

One feature beaten – now all Yahoo! have to do is get rid of the horrible graphical adverts, allow pop access to other accounts, add tagging…

Tags: yahoo!+mail, gmail

LGKnowledge

I launched the latest project under the LGNewMedia banner yesterday, a social bookmarking site for local government called LGKnowledge. It’s based on Pligg and works just fine – the only issue will be getting enough people using it to make it worthwhile. But I’m working on that.

Tags: lgknowledge, pligg

WordPress Plugin Directory

Hurrah! WordPress now has a decent plugin directory!

Viacom will sue YouTube

From the BBC:

Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue web search engine Google and its video-sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m).

Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube uses its shows illegally.

Viacom alleges that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

Google says it is “confident” that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders.

As well as more than $1bn in damages, the legal action seeks an injunction to prevent what Viacom calls “massive intentional copyright infringement”.

Dave Winer’s view:

Obviously this is a negotiation, either that or Viacom is jumping off the bridge and hoping that the fall doesn’t kill them.

Every way up

Euan Semple on the advantages of social media for everyone:

What I find interesting is that some people leap to the conclusion (both for and against) that social computing in business is bottom up. It isn’t. It is potentially as liberating for the middle and the top as it is for anyone else.

How many managers do you know who feel really listened to by their staff at the moment?

How many managers feel really understood by their boss?

Wouldn’t even your control freaks benefit from a better platform on which to influence their organisation?

Photos

All taken at Lake Vyrnwy today.

Google Cricket

The Google Operating System blog points out Google’s coverage of the upcoming cricket world cup.

Google’s stuff includes a cricket blogging competition (Blogger only, of course – boo!); some Google Desktop gadgets; an Orkut community and a special blog written by Krish Srikkanth.

Tags: google, cricket+world+cup

Twitter: Cat Blogging, Evolved

Via Mashable: