Tom Scotney

I’ve blogged before about what I want to do with this site, and one of the things I’d like would be a feed of my articles in the Post, just to show readers what I’ve been up to at work, and so readers of the paper Post know they’re getting their 70p’s worth.

 Unfortunately the Post website as it is doesn’t support anything so fancy-dan as a newsfeed, and in fact doesn’t even have every article that goes in the paper on it. All this is to change when the new website is brought in in a month or so, I’m sure.

But until then I’ve decided to create an archive of my work as a blog, just so I can keep track of all my articles without having to keep huge piles of paper if nothing else. I’ve set it up as sort of a “dummy” blog (although anyone’s welcome to comment if they’d like), and you may have noticed a new link to the last 10 stories I wrote for our esteemed organ over there on the right if you’re on my blog.

This is obviously mainly for my benefit, rather than readers, but I hope this helps all the Tom Scotney news junkies out there, if such a thing exists - unlikely I know. I think it shows quite how versatile many Web 2.0 applications are. I was briefly discussing the use of Twitter with blogger Pete Ashton yesterday, talking about how versatile it is, and this is just another use of modern web technology in a way it maybe wasn’t originally designed for.

First up: the Birmingham band taking reggae to Lithuania, which I shamelessly appropriated for the Post after hearing about it from Spaghetti Gazetti. Hopefully this will give me the chance to give credit where credit’s due as well