http://www.marksblog.org My ideas, updates and top posts Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:44:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been hinting at new things for a while now. Well here it is.. As of today I've taken up a new role as Product Development Manager at Green Options. I'm pretty excited to be taking a challenging position with a great company with many opportunities for the future. ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/08/25/new-monday/ ...despite the almost complete lack of posts here in the past couple of months .. What have I been up to? Got a new job - more information in the next couple of weeks when I start Got married - and enjoyed a great holiday afterwards Implemented a new web-magazine format together with Green ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/08/08/still-alive/ I'm much intrigued by Google's new Google Lively beta. Try out my test room.. http://www.marksblog.org/2008/07/28/google-lively-experiment/ Last week I sat down to blog about the content of a recent British Government report on renewable energy. At the time my head was full of ideas and opinion on the subject, and as I love writing in a slightly cynical and sarcastic manner I was looking forward to ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/06/07/why-diggers-get-the-posts-they-deserve/ Since I don't typically write stuff that goes down well with the Digg audience I was pretty chuffed to wake up this morning and find that I had made the front page for my EcoWorldly piece on the impending extinction of the snowman. Ok, it ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/05/31/about-time-finally-made-the-digg-front-page/ Think I'll start doing it monthly instead, especially since my weekly blogging rate seems to have suffered in the past month. My current blogging pipeline is overflowing with about 30 post ideas waiting to be written, although I've had a few other projects to keep me busy in ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/05/25/no-posts-this-week-this-week/ TalkClimateChange Business As Usual For Climate Change? - Following the coverage of controversial new research suggesting that "global warming may be on hold", I've looked at how this issue was reported and what this means. What Is Climate Change Causing Today? - Did global warming cause ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/05/18/posts-this-week-6/ Thanks Microsoft. I've been very generous to Vista over the past year. Many friends and colleagues, the press, and particularly the blogoshpere have been scathing about its performance, reliability and compatibility. So far I've been confused as to what all these people are complaining about. Vista has some ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/05/15/if-its-not-one-thing-its-another/ Bit late with posts this week, having not gotten very much done since getting back from holiday due to some micro-organisms that I seem to have brought back with me.. So here are the two posts that I have managed.. Cars Might Fly - even though I ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/05/12/posts-this-week-5/ Strange how it takes a while to get going again.. Will be back with more soon - just in case you had thought that I'd disappeared. http://www.marksblog.org/2008/05/08/back-from-holiday/ I'm unlikely to make any posts next week due to holidays, but in the meantime.. TalkClimateChange TalkClimateChange Takes a Holiday -Something To Consider In The Meantime - As I'm about to take a short holiday I thought it worth taking a brief step-back to re-think the ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/04/26/posts-this-week-4/ NowSourcing The New Social Media Democracy - My continued thoughts on the future of blogging. TalkClimateChange 25 Years Later, Climate Change Becomes the New War? - Commentary on the George Bush climate speech of last week. I wasn't going to bother covering it, but had ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/04/19/posts-this-week-3/ I've recently been considering the wider and more long term impact that social media may begin to have on the blogosphere, and on the web-media business in general. Social media will undoubtedly change things for everybody, from bloggers at the lower end of the media food chain to the global news ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/04/14/the-new-social-media-democracy/ Been a more than busy week this week, with fewer posts than usual. Nonetheless.. EcoWorldly Permanent Link to Grumpy Climate Change Commentator - Bangkok Climate Talks - A post written under the influence of the Monday Blues. The Spy Who Was "Plane Stupid" - Was ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/04/12/posts-this-week-2/ This post was originally published on EcoWorldly. Putting pen to paper for Bus Transportation Week I began to make a few notes about bus travel in Switzerland – the country that I usually cover on EcoWorldly. My notes read: reliable, clean, efficient. Not much of a story ... http://www.marksblog.org/2008/04/12/british-busses-actually-worse-than-british-trains/