• edublogs: Six points for organisations entering the Live Web
  you’re reading lots of blogs and wanting to leave comments, do you feel you can do on behalf of your organisation? Most people would probably reply ‘no’. This is not down to the potential evils of the tool - it’s down the culture of the organisation,
  (tags: socialmedia socialnetworking blog work)

• Odigo - turns blogs to podcasts
  from The Jeff Pulver Blog
  (tags: socialmedia accesability texttospeech work blog)
• The Right Width for Your Blog
  (tags: Geekery blog layout)

• 19:15 got new pumps from japan #

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• 18:00 wondering if I can unlock my N73 or if eBay is the better bet #
• 19:04 eBay it is then. Never trust a mobile phone operator #

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• Facebook AppMaker, a new tool that the company claims will provide people with a dead simple way to create a new Facebook application.
  (tags: Geekery)

• Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers
  (tags: newspapers search work)

• 19:37 gotta new camera - expect videos aplenty #

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• is Skype’s architecture fatally flawed?
  (tags: Media2.0Workgroup Geekery skype)

I signed up with a trial of  Crazy Egg (which does ‘heatmaps’ of your webpages to see where people clicked), just to see what it’s about and let it lose on the main page of BiNS for a day or two.  It seems a really powerful tool - though it might be useful to have more of an idea of what you wanted from the research than I did. With a full stats package you can work this sort of stuff out for yourself, at least how many hits one bit of your site gets - but it’s a nice graphical report and for people like me where hosting charges have led you to split your site across different free packages (blogger, chatarea and the stats-lite blueyonder hosting in this case) it’s quite handy.

Things I’m quite surprised at are:

• how much people will scroll past ‘the fold’ - I was a bit conficted when I first move the blogroll down the page to fit in my upyerBrum badge, it seemed a bit nasty to bump someone else’s work in favour of your own, but each blog got a few clicks (more than I would have expected)
• more clicks on plain ‘underlined’ links verses icons for the same thing than I would have expected. Poor icon design, or conversational linkage working well?
• not as much traffic is drawn the the blog updates at the right hand side of the page as I would have thought - I’m toying with a few ideas for greater blog integration and this might have pushed me towards one more than the others

• Steve Yelvington writes a well constructed piece on the evolution of local newspapers: why they never really were that local in the first place, and why they need to rethink that.
  (tags: Culture, newspapers)
• Blog Action Day
  On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic.
  (tags: blog socialaction)
• According to Jakob Nielsen, these are the four most effective ways to attract peoples’ eyeballs to ads:
  (tags: Design, advertising)