I regularly get asked questions about WordPress. Mainly it’s asking why I self-host rather than use one of the free blogging platforms, what advantages self-hosting offers and how much it costs. Rather than answer these queries independently, I thought it would be worth putting a guide together. That way, everyone gets to benefit. I also want to keep this a little interactive – if you’ve got a question that I haven’t covered then feel free [...]

Social media, like many things, is a game of two halves. On the one hand you have Twitter and Facebook accounts trying to reach out and engage with your readers or customers. On the other, you want to have something to bring them back to, like a focus point or a base of operations. But while opening a Twitter account is simple, constructing an online home can be a daunting task. Luckily there’s a whole [...]

I’ve recently got myself into a bit of an ordeal. A kind of perfect storm, if you will. And the trouble with storms like these is they can quickly grow, and become unmanageable, and so on. You get the idea. So what’s been going on? Why the “radio silence” on Twitter these past six months or more? And why no blog updates since February? Well, all these and more are intertwined together in a rather [...]

This week saw the announcements of one of the most talked about mobile software releases since Andriod. Windows Phone 7 Series, while sounding clunky, managed to score high acclaim from the various journalists and bloggers who where at the Mobile World Congress to see it. Reasons aren’t hard to find: the interface is the first one I’ve seen that makes the iPhone look dated. Despite the new mobile OS being heralded as a return to [...]

I think every PC gamer has experienced a particular brand of annoyance when they’re engaged in a long or intense session: quitting the game to find an open instant message, a missed skype call or reams of Twitter posts. At the moment solutions are fairly crude – I periodically alt-tab to check for new messages. Others use secondary devices such as smartphones or even laptops in order to keep track of their social network while [...]