Archive for October, 2009

How To Get Rid Of Captions In WordPress

In: WordPress

31 Oct 2009

In version 2.6 WordPress introduced the captions feature which meant that when you uploaded an image, the text you entered as the ‘alt’ text, previously only visible to search engines, was now used as a caption under your image, visible to all. I personally have found this quite annoying and should you agree, here’s a [...]

Facebook’s New News Feed

In: social media

24 Oct 2009

Today Facebook made a strange update to their otherwise functional News Feed feature. You can read all the details at ReadWriteWeb where Marshall breaks down the changes excellently. I ended up posting a pretty lengthy comment over there so I decided to turn it into a blog post! My personal opinion on the change is [...]

What We Can Learn From The T-Mobile Mess

In: social media

15 Oct 2009

As you may have heard, earlier this week, some of T-Mobile’s Sidekick users were told that some of their personal data and content, which was hosted by Microsoft on their servers in ‘the cloud’, was irretrievably lost – gone, kaput. Yikes! So what can we all learn from the misfortune of those livid Sidekick users? [...]

What’s The Point of Social Media?

In: social media

6 Oct 2009

A more personal take on what you can get out of social media… 1) Self-expression For me, this is the Main Point. Everything else listed here is essentially a subdivision of this overarching concept. Social media gives you any number of outlets through which you can reveal aspects of yourself through the information you choose [...]


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