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Moving DavePress

Dave — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:59:16 +0000

After many frustrations with the company hosting this blog, I’ve finally given in and will be moving it. Am hoping to have it all done today (Sunday), but we’ll see how it goes.

This might look janky for a bit. Thousands of pings might get resent. Loads of old posts might hit your RSS reader, or your inbox. For this I apologise in advance.

Update: the blog has transferred across perfectly to the new host, and I have even got it set up with a nice new theme. Trouble is, the current host, who also controls the domain, are being difficult about pointing it to the new box. How annoying.

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Whoopsie

Dave — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:20:17 +0000

Apologies if you have been confronted by a nonsensical post full of error messages from this site – something went wrong with my automated bookmark posting thingumy.

Anyway, hopefully it won’t happen again.

Update: it happened again. Sorry.

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DavePress bookshop

Dave — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:10:57 +0000

I’ve always wanted to own a bookshop. Somewhere nice and quiet, with tables to sit down and read, some sort of tea and coffee arrangement and plenty of books to browse and buy.

I’m obviously not ever going to have one – after all, if Borders can’t cope, then how could I? But I can have a virtual arrangement, thanks to Amazon’s astore service.

You can find it here. I’m still stocking the shelves, but you should find some good stuff in there. In fact, they are all books I have read and liked, so you can blame me if they’re crap.

Disclosure – I get a few pence every time you use the bookshop. I’m not going to get rich out of it, though!

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Posting links

Dave — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:39:43 +0000

Since delicious upgraded itself, the automatic posting of stuff I have bookmarked has stragely stopped on DavePress. Not at all sure why.

Anyway, to improve things, I have installed the Postalicious plugin for WordPress, which will handle all this for me, on the recommendation of the social media John Virgo, Jon Bounds. There are quite a lot of options and configuration to be done, so I might have to tweak it a bit over the next few days, but hopefully normal service will now be resumed.

Some stats

Dave — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:55:50 +0000

Inspired a little by Jeremy’s post on his blog’s first birthday, I thought I might have a little dig into the numbers for this blog. It’s only been going since November 2006, so about six months and frankly was going nowhere until barcampukgovweb mania gave it a bit of a bigger profile, which then was further extended in the wake of the Civil Surf affair. Anyhow, here’s the facts:

Feedburner says I have 122 susbcribers here
The site itself has seen 8,422 hits
Best day ever was March 11th with 423 hits
Best referrer (ie the place that people come to DavePress from) is Twitter (298 referrals) followed by Civil Surf (thanks Simon – 297 referrals)
My top posts in terms of visits are 8 Tips for Beginner Bloggers, Public servants must blog and my About page

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DavePress in 2009

Backburner

Dave — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:58:02 +0000

Things have been relatively quiet here on DavePress, but don’t worry, I have been busy. I’ve been working on a few projects – as well as the social reporting stuff with David – which I will hopefully be able to report on soon.

In the meantime I have been trying to bookmark the interesting stuff I have been seeing recently, so they pop up in the blog every evening.

Normal service to be resumed shortly!

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I promise…

Dave — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:20:00 +0000

…not to write another blog post about blogging for a while.

I do need another area of obsession though. Wikis? Social networks?

Any other suggestions?

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Redesigning DavePress

Dave — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:22:38 +0000

I have been wanting to give this blog a redesign almost ever since I started it. For some reason I just haven’t taken to the Mandigo theme I was using – a bit dark, maybe? I do think that darker themes are less forgiving of some of the clutter that we bloggers like to fill our sidebars with.

So, I have settled on PopBlue, by Bob, which is a much lighter theme and hopefully the single sidebar will focus attention on the content rather than the widgets and other crud. I ‘designed’ a quick logo, using an icon from the free Crystal Clear set and a bit of text.

Couple of jobs to get done though, including:

Sorting out the CSS for images so that text floats nicely around them in posts (any help gratefully received…)
Making blockquotes stand out a bit more
Replacing the standard search bar with my Google CSE one

So, there is plenty to be done…

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Online Information 2007

Dave — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:21:56 +0000

Light blogging ahead as I am going to be at the Online Information conference this week. I won’t be taking my laptop with me, but will be twittering my thoughts via my Palm, so do check that out.

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Hello world!

Dave — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:20:56 +0000

I know, I know. It seems like I start a new blog every 5 minutes. But this is different. This time, I’m staying put.

The whole FEconnect thing didn’t work for me, in the end. This was a big shame, because the blog proved pretty popular quite quickly. But what I realised was that there wasn’t any FE content on there. When I thought about it more, I realised there probably never would be. I’m better writing generally about web 2.0 and social media, how it can be applied to community building and online collaboration, without the added hassle of tying it into a specific sector.

So, DavePress. Non-sector specific. It’s just about me, and what I think, what I am interested in. I’m hoping that all the people who read LGNewMedia, FEconnect, and the various other bits I have done will tune in here and find stuff that will interest them. I’m sure they will.

The blog is still being built, but I will start adding content from now. Hope it’s useful.