Writing on the web since 2003

The Central Office of Information (COI) is the UK government’s centre of excellence for marketing and communications. In this email interview Jamie Galloway, COI’s Director of Digital Media, talks about how the UK government uses digital media in its campaigns.

The discussion about what makes a blog a blog has resurfaced again – I was struggling with a definition recently when putting together a presentation about social media, so the debate is particularly timely for me.

…to everyone who reads this. And for those who are waking up with a sore head this morning, I hope the hangover clears soon.

I’ve had my own website at www.simonwakeman.com since 2001. Until January 2006 it featured basic information about me and not a lot else. Over the past twelve months that’s definitely changed.

Judging by the traffic to my website and hits on my RSS feed, I’d say many of my usual readers are winding down for Christmas – and thankfully I’m no exception.

One of the best set of predictions for 2007 I’ve seen is over at Read/Write Web. They highlight that the growth of RSS will be one of the big stories next year.

I’m not ashamed to admit I like my gadgets. But I do particularly like a gadget that makes my life better, and my Dell Axim X51V does just that.

Have a look at this 1993 news report, courtesy of CBC, which talks about an emerging phenomenon called “Internet”.

Over the weekend I’ve added a couple of extra features to my blog – a new Grazr and a site preview for external links.

Given there’s an end-of-term feeling around the office at the moment, I suppose it’d be OK to take five minutes out to respond to my tagging by Richard Millington.