Broadly speaking, there were three topics that I wanted to explore today. Firstly I wanted to talk to the Zoho Writer developers to see if they really intend to implement the changes that I have suggested. I wanted to explain why I thought they were important, if I needed to; and to lobby for their inclusion. Secondly, I wanted to see what was in store for the other Zoho services that we are using, and find out if there are anymore that we should be using. Finally, I wanted to find answers to some of the questions that I have been asked in Finland about Zoho: will it last, can we trust it, why should we prefer it to Google, and so on.

Amazon have recently begun a service in the United States “selling” downloadable movies. It has been drawing criticism from several sources, including Cory Doctorow.

Somewhere yesterday I found a link to the web site of Andy Rutledge. So should you.

Yesterday I spent many hours installing NextGen here to very little effect. Fortunately I discovered Awsom Pixgallery this morning, which worked perfectly within about thirty minutes.

Here are two sites I have found recently that may be of use in a number of ways.

While I was at Zoho recently, Arvind showed me something in passing that has already completely changed the way I work: Bloglines. This is simply an service that enables you to store RSS feeds, sort them into folders and then view them online. Described like this it sounds like nothing special. But it really is.

I have had a Box.net account for some time now. It hasn’t been very useful really. Not that there is anything specific wrong with it. I just haven’t ever really for a purpose for it. Now, with the new OpenBox system, I think that I have…

Yesterday I found BugMeNot, which provides a very simple and potentially very useful service.

A couple of weeks ago, in one of my periodic trawls through the lists of available plug-ins, I came across a mention of SRG Clean Archives which had recently been taken over by the Geek With Laptop. I looked at it and it seemed to answer some of the problems I was trying to think through.

I followed my own advice and decided that Clipmarks would be most useful to me at the moment as a way of grabbing short facts (statistics, quotes, predictions, announcements) that I might want to remember later.

Crabgrass advertises itself as “a software libre web application designed for group and network organizing, and tailored to the needs of the global justice movement. Crabgrass is the next generation of social software”.

While working my way through the various WP files I have been wondering about the historical decision to add a “no follow” to all the links in comments. I assumed that it was an early attempt to stop comment spam, and indeed it was. However, SpamKarma is supposed to stop all my comment spam, and it has only missed one in nearly six months. So, I wondered: what is the point of stopping the links that do appear?

Identity on the web is an issue in many different ways: can he be trusted; will she misuse my details; is YahooBob the same person as YB_google; and so on. Once there was widespread celebration of the fact that anyone could be whoever they chose. Today there is widespread concern about authenticity and verification.