Office Jotter - Blog Archive for December (2010)

There were 9 blog postings during December (2010):

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Hurrah for WordPress!
It wasn’t until my recent search of old posts did I realise how long I’ve been writing Office Jotter. My first entry was for 23 September 2002. Blogs had been around well before then, of course, but I still felt adventurous when starting...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 30th December '10

From the archive - "The Social Web"
While looking through some old Office Jotter files for a half-remembered quotation, I came across this item from nearly six years ago. It’s a good example of how trends in computing simultaneously move rapidly and slowly, depending on who and...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 27th December '10

Twitterings — Paper.li
More curating. Paper.li lets users create and publish online newspapers from Twitter and Facebook links. It takes the idea of a dynamic list further than Chirpstory — the result looks better and it offers readers more ways of viewing...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 24th December '10

Twitterings — Chirpstory
I’ve been playing with the recently-released Chirpstory tool. It lets you collect tweets, make a list of them and publish it. This article in TechCrunch alerted me to the service. The article also introduced me to the fashionable...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 22nd December '10

On the ball and dropping the ball
As part of my catching up operation (see below), I’ve been registering for trial accounts with online services that look relevant to businesses. The responses have been interestingly varied. Here are four. On the dog ‘n bone A...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 20th December '10

Making Web pages readable
Where does your gaze go when confronted with a page like this? (Click on it to enlarge it.) . New York Times page, unaltered . And where does it go on this page? New York Times page, processed . How to do it I find the second page much more...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 20th December '10

Oracle Open Office goes vaporous
Oracle Corporation has announced a cloud-based variant of the Open Office suite it picked up when it bought Sun Microsystems in January 2010. It calls the new software Oracle Cloud Office and intends it for use from Web browsers and mobile...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 19th December '10

“Social” is an adverb
I’ve been reading again. A message coming across strongly is that many suppliers and commentators don’t get the point of enterprise social networking. The users mostly do, second time around sometimes. “Social” is...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 17th December '10

Technorati’s annual review of blogging
State of the Blogosphere 2010 Introduction — Technorati Blogging: Welcome to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2010 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. For 2010, we took a...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 13th December '10