Beth Granter

Freelance digital consultant for charities


Year: 2008

  • Ebay and retaliatory feedback

    In November 2007 I had my first bad ebay experience. I bought a power cable for my powerbook (the old one literally spontaneously combusted in front of my eyes), and the ebay advert said the item was in London, so it should have only taken a couple of days to arrive. I was doing some…

  • Last.fm Loved Tracks RSS feed and cowgirl pinups

    You can get your own RSS feed of your recently loved tracks on Last.fm via this Yahoo Pipes application by Amit. Awesome! I’ve wanted this for ages. I’ve put my feed at the bottom of my blog here, for now. In other news, I did a new illustration of a cowgirl pinup: Hot. It needs…

  • A sorry state

    What’s going on? Is it something to do with it being Valentine’s day this week that has got everybody riled up? Currently FOUR of my friends have Facebook status’ saying “[name] is sorry”. Well OK, three say that, the other one says “[name] is really really sorry”. I put them all in a Facebook ‘list’…

  • Twitter broken splash page

    Twitter is broken and as usual they have a very cute image to let you know.  I’ve decided to blog about all the cute error messages I come across, as I find them.  So far, as I recall, Twitter is winning on it’s ‘I’m broken’ notices.  Although, another site might have the potential to make…

  • Gaping void – social media cartoons

    I just discovered Gapingvoid.com which has really excellent blog posts about social media and general workplace stuff, each one illustrated with hilarious cartoons, like the following one: It’s all creative commons licenced and done by Hugh macleod. And you can have these on your own business cards, and there’s a couple of apps with them…

  • Keeping my blog at WordPress and Facebook relationship options

    So I’m probably going to keep my blog at WordPress and just add some more pages to it because it doesn’t seem worth the complications of leaving a dead blog here and trying to get people to read at my new location etc. Apart from that, I had reason to edit my Facebook relationship status…