Archive for February, 2009

Daniel O’Neil – the original Resident Hippy

Life caught me with one of it’s weird curve balls today, in the form of an email concerning Daniel O’Neil, who, it transpires, was the original owner of the domain residenthippy.com, and tragically was one of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings. If you’re looking for Dan’s music or the website that was originally at this address you can still see them here.

Chris Wheal at the NUJ

Good lord. Will someone put this man out of his misery?

As a tutor at the National Union of Journalist’s training body it’s bad enough that he’s making sweeping statements such as “bloggers themselves rejoice in having lower standards“, but when you find out his title at NUJ training is Writing for the Web, well…words fail me.

Quickpress

If you’re not interested in blogging or Wordpress you might want to skip this. In fact you might want to skip it even if you are…I’m only testing the new Quickpress feature.

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