Well, it’s time to blow out the candles as this technology blog is celebrating it’s ninth year talking about all things technology related, from the history of technology, through software development, technology management, and software applications to hardware, gadgets, and looks ahead to the future. Mind you, it wasn’t even called blogging back then!

Micro-blogging, as demonstrated by Twitter, opens up a new world of immediacy and information sharing leading to all sorts of new broadcasting opportunities. One of these areas of opportunity is live sports updates which is where new micro-blogging service, Fantator, is aiming it’s service squarely at. As we can’t always be at the game, or [read more...]

HaloScan the commenting, rating, and trackback system,  popular amongst Bloggers is nearing it’s shut down date of Feb 19, 2010. HaloScan was acquired by JS-Kit.com towards the end of 2008. At the time JS-Kit had this to say “The transition from HaloScan to JS-Kit comment script will be automatic, seamless, and will have zero negative [read more...]

The recent Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2009 was a fascinating adventure for me and attending the awards evening offered an interesting insight into the technology blogging industry. My local community in Shropshire have been particularly supportive in this adventure which mad a big difference for me. After a huge 12,500 votes (compared to just [read more...]

UPDATE: Voting is now closed and I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported me in the 2009 Awards, it has certainly been an adventure and it is all down to you guys and girls – so THANK YOU. It is something of a double whammy for me this [read more...]

I received an email this afternoon telling me I have been nominated for the Computer Weekly Blog Awards 2009 in the Individual IT Professional Male category. I just took a look at the blogs nominated so far which include seasoned professionals and celebrities such as Peter Cochrane and Rory Cellan-Jones so this could be quite [read more...]

I recently found some time to sit down and go through Google Webmaster Tools with more than the usual passing glance and I thought it might be interesting to share some of my experiences when working through it – in relation to my technology blog at www.jasonslater.co.uk. Dashboard The first place to start in Google [read more...]

I recently read the book “Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read” by Scott McNulty. It was never going to be easy writing a how-to book about a platform which is under constant and regular development so the book has had to focus on a specific version which is 2.6.2 whereas WordPress is currently [read more...]