While I may enjoy blogging and running this here blog, I do loathe and detest the actual word blog… it sounds like someone devised the word while – quite literally – in the ablution block.
First of all, I would like to express just how tremendously ugly a word “blog” really is. It reminds me of [...]
This is why I’d rather call blogs “online notepads” instead
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 to the blogs subset
The illustrated blog of Milan Zori
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 17 June, 2009 to the design and art subset
The dwellary, a blog which presents posts by way of illustration and drawing rather than text.
Two Flat Whites redesign
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 12 March, 2008 to the design and art subset
Two Flat Whites has just unveiled a new look.
“Two Flat Whites” is a network for Fashion, Design, Music, Entertainment, Food, Lifestyle, Community, Writing and Small Business. “Two Flat Whites” offers the opportunity for talented, skillful and inspirational Australian writers, fashion designers, photographers, graphic designers, musicians, entertainers, bands, chefs, personalities, fashion labels, restaurants and small businesses [...]
Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 November, 2007 to the comment subset
Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written, by Nick Padmore.
While bloggers may have all manner of whiz bang ultra fangled technologies to play with, at the end of the day conceiving the message is just as important as conveying it.
So, how good is your copy writing?
The relevance of old-school advertising copy to web writers, developers, and designers [...]
Affray
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 20 August, 2007 to the comment subset
I don’t know if I like to whinge, or just like to whinge about whingers, but here I go anyway.
Most Wordpress bloggers will be familiar with Akismet, a plugin that helps control comment spam.
Like anything it is not 100 per cent fool proof, but overall I think it does a pretty good job of quarantining [...]
Nexus
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 11 July, 2007 to the blogs subset
It seems I’m a schmoozer! Would never have guessed it myself but the other day Lansy kindly bestowed me with the The Power of Schmooze award!
And since this award is neither viral, (so breathe easy) nor a meme, I therefore, hereby, commit the following bloggers to The Power of Schmooze award:
Albert Foong aka the Urban [...]
Syndication
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 21 June, 2007 to the technology subset
Some information and advice on importing old blog posts into Wordpress.
For those who came in late…
Regular, or long time, readers of disassociated.com will know I have only very recently (and finally) implemented a Content Management System, or CMS, namely Wordpress, or WP.
Prior to this the site was comprised of static HTML documents. Basically I’d create [...]
Launch
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 6 February, 2007 to the blogs subset
Day 37. Speed of life. Lack of speed of internet and on-line applications.
The amount of time wasted waiting and waiting for something to load. I don’t know how many hours have been lost to waiting over the last few weeks. Oh well.
This is another late night for me, but I am pleased to say I [...]
