Tag Archives: SocialNetworks

Back from WordCamp Birmingham 2008

By Dougal | Published: October 1, 2008

Dougal, Mitch, and Donna

As mentioned previously, I gave a presentation last weekend at WordCamp Birmingham 2008 on “The Future of WordPress”. My section on “The Past of WordPress” ran a little longer than I had planned, but a lot of people told me that they liked that overview, so I guess it was alright. [...]

Posted in Blogging, Community, The South, WordPress | Also tagged .net, acnatta, Alabama, app, ariedana, birmingham, dazzlindonna, griner, jeremyflint, Microsoft, plugin, SEO, sidesways, studionashvegas, twitter, wordcamp, wordcampbham, WordPress | 4 Comments

Twitterings

By Dougal | Published: December 13, 2007

You might have already noticed, but I finally hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon. You can see my latest tweets in the sidebar (it’s the “What I’m Doing” section), and I currently have it auto-posting a daily summary here on the blog (courtesy of the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress). I’m not sure if I’ll continue that or not, though. Of course, if you are also on Twitter, you can just follow my tweets with whatever method you prefer.

When Twitter first started, I didn’t think I’d see much value in it. [...]

Posted in Blogging, Community, Plugins, Services, WordPress | Also tagged alexking, plugin, Plugins, RSS, tweets, twitter, twittertools, WordPress | 26 Comments

Social Networking

By Dougal | Published: January 8, 2004

In 1967, Stanley Milgram proposed the “small world theory”, which proposed that every person on earth is connected to every other person by a chain of just six other people. In other words, you know somebody, who knows somebody, etc., You might have heard of a humorous application of this called the Kevin Bacon Game. Several years ago, some clever programmers created a web site, called SixDegrees (it’s been down for a while, but is preparing to re-launch), based on this idea. [...]