Monthly Archive for November, 2007

ECM

Published
by
Nev
on November 3, 2007
in Edinburgh and Web development
. 3 Comments

I’m aware that I’ve mentioned the Edinburgh Coffee Morning a few times in my blog before but have never really expanded on what it was.

Basically a loose affiliation of people from various professions gather on a Friday morning in Centotre to chat about social networks, Web 2.0 technologies and related topics before we scuttle off to our places of work. Web developers like myself, IT professionals geeks like Jamie Clague, marketing bods like Mike Coulter and Mark Gorman, teachers and educators like Ewan McIntosh and authors like Bill Coles (who has a book out: The Well-Tempered Clavier). You don’t have to be a web geek — all are welcome and it generally proves to be a thoroughly enjoyable and diverse start to the day.

Internet fame

Published
by
Nev
on November 1, 2007
in Personal
. 0 Comments

How do you know when you’ve made it as a blogger? Sure, web access log analysis will give you an idea of how many people are reading your thoughts and ramblings. You may even pick up some mention of yourself on other sites. But I don’t think it’s until people start to referring to you by your surname only that you can say that you’re now Internet famous (or notorious as the case may be). Doctorow, Gruber and Kottke, Scoble and Thurrott – I’ll let you decide who I think falls in to which category.

Of course, if you reach true uber geek status you get assigned your very own TLA like PPK or JZW.