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[tags]facebook,gonzo,bloggers,meetup[/tags] I met Gonzo Will at the bloggers meetup last night and clicked through to his site via Mauricio’s post earlier. He’s got a great blog with some straight-up and witty writing. I especially enjoyed his post on the ups and downs of Facebook – well worth reading.

As Wanda Martha just mentioned, last night we had the first meetup of the Wellington Bloggers Facebook group (or the catchy ‘WBFG‘ for short) at the Southern Cross bar. It was great fun and quite surreal meeting bloggers in real life for the first time – especially as we already knew so too much about […]

Most people are expecting Longhorn to eventually become officially known as Windows Server 2008, but it looks like Microsoft have inadvertently let the cat out of the bag by posting a link to the “Windows Server 2008 Reviewers Guide” on the WinHEC press site. Eagle-eyed Mary Jo Foley picked up on it and grabbed a […]

A lot of people have been complaining about Windows Vista’s poor battery life and now the bigger news outlets are picking up on it too. CNet reported that OEMs are resorting to their own power management tools to try to squeeze out as much battery life as possible while running Vista. The finger is being […]

My latest blogging venture is to create a site listing all of the blogs that are based in New Zealand. I’ve created the NZ Blogs site on Blogtown NZ which is the free, blogging service that I’ve set up to make it easy for New Zealanders to start their own, local blog. I can’t track […]

My previous post about Plaxo joined in with the blogosphere’s opinion that Plaxo needed to apologise for their spam they had knowingly sent out. This morning I discovered that Plaxo’s CEO had made a full, public apology – even to the point of making a dig at themselves with a picture of flying pigs in […]

News just in… Measure Map has been purchased by Google for an (as yet) unknown price. This will be a nice addtion to the Google Analytics software that Google also purchased recently. Measure Map, however, is more focused on bloggers – providing the essential stats that bloggers are after. The interesting thing about this purchase, […]

Update: New post on spam I get for the HearTheMusicPlay Scam Performancing for Firefox has just been upgraded to version 1.1 – you can read more here: http://performancing.com/node/945 I’ve been testing out a few desktop publishing tools for blogs recently and haven’t really found one that I like. I’ll give this one another go and […]

I created a del.icio.us link to this a while back but wanted to create a new post to highlight this event in Wellington, NZ. Blog Hui 2006 is the first blog conference here and should be exciting to see how blogging is taking off in NZ. Here are the details copied from the website – […]