Or at least it’s too hot to play around with tagging anymore. I’m going to stick to manual tagging until I’ve got the energy to really read all the documentation (there isn’t much) on these tagging tools to understand how to get them to work. Pfui.
For those who aren’t here, London and the South-East of England are in the grip of a very sticky heatwave. The effects of the penthouse aircon are just about starting to reach me (it’s after 1.00) I get the occasional blast of cool air, but otherwise it doesn’t seem to make much difference.
Perhaps the heat is the explanation for the two adjacent Selfridges windows seen here: Either the sale started three weeks ago on the 3rd or it’s starting in a couple of days on 23rd and someone lost a “2”!
I prescribe more working in Starbucks and the park – damn, when are we going to get wifi in Hyde Park? Come on Westminster Council and the Royal Parks – it would be sooooo coool.
Well manual tagging works OK, and the Category gets picked up.
So what was missing? Well I went through the installation of the tag plugin again which was when I realised that I’d copied a default string with a dummy path into my mt.cfg file instead of one with the real path.
Doh!
So now I have at least the lovely tag interface working. It still remains to be seen whether these things get picked up by technorati.
Aaah the relief. I thought I’d never get back on this particular horse, and I was missing it so.
Les Posen broke this news to the podcasters group that the Queen has bought an iPod and started speculation about which podcast Her Majesty would be listening to first.
I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take you on a stroll down from the Perfect Path Penthouse to Buckingham Palace, through Mayfair and Green Park. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before I get a call from the Palace.
I spoke this morning in one of the IDM Academy slots at Internet World (Thanks to Emma Castellani & Joanna King for inviting me and supporting me very smoothly)
I talked about blogs and podcasts and how you can use them for marketing purposes.
Got 17 people along in the mini-theatre which apparently was a good turn out especially for the first slot in the morning. Met some very nice people afterwards, including Peter Martin, who runs Junkk.com a re-use business specialising in recycling FMCGs (Rubbish needn’t be a dirty word) and who was very interested in blogging for PR.
As a practical example of the power of googlejuice that blogs have, I’d say to the other people who didn’t say hello, try googling “Peter Martin” or Junkk.com over the next few days and see how soon this post rises to the top.
Also managed to introduce some people to RSS aggregators, so that’s my good turn for the day done.
I got audio of the keynote speakers in the morning, but not sure what to do with it, I’ve set up a wiki page to link to them and collect any views if anyone’s interested.
Last week, I published my first interview with a UK public servant, which is to be part of the offering of Public Service Conversations. I spoke to Liz Railton, who is Deputy Chief Executive of Essex County Council
I’m very pleased with how it turned out as a first go, but I’m making the audio (31 mins 10.7MB) availabe here as well to spread the word and to get some more feedback (the level of subscription to the Public Service Conversations feed is relatively small) particularly from those who know podcasting well, but are less intimate with British public services.
I have another interview in the can, awaiting approval. Before I do anymore it would be good to know what people think of this one.
What do you think of this as an idea? How do you find it as a podcast? Do you think it’s worth continuing with? What questions would you have liked me to ask Liz in addition to what we talked about?
Max Niederhofer (in charge of operations for 20six, the blogging company) has posted an initial manifesto and created an associated wiki where people are already starting to stand up and say “Hi! What a good idea…mmmmm…. what could we do?”
“The EIP wants to connect Europeans working and playing on and with the internet by providing information on who is doing what in Europe, providing a basis for young European internet startups to launch from and eventually organizing some big conference bash. While we’re focused on Europe as a region, we’re open for Americans interested in Europe as well. It’s about pro-Europe, not anti-America.”
Or at least it’s too hot to play around with tagging anymore. I’m going to stick to manual tagging until I’ve got the energy to really read all the documentation (there isn’t much) on these tagging tools to understand how to get them to work. Pfui.
Perfect Path 