Category Archives: web

Hacio’r Iaith article for Planet Magazine

The arts and politics magazine Planet has just published my short article with thoughts about Hacio’r Iaith, on their website. In it I mention open events, social media, intellectual property, open source and WordPress. All views are mine – as if I could ever presume to speak on behalf of such a diverse community as [...]

Blogiau lleol am Cardiff, Cymru

Mae tair enghraifft o wefannau am newyddion lleol yn y brifddinas yn dechrau.

Bydd y blog The Guardian gan ‘beatblogger’ lleol yn dechrau cyn hir. Roedd Guardian yn esbonio’r meddyliau a staff tu ôl y fenter. Twitter: GdnCardiff
Mae yourCardiff newydd wedi cael eu lansiad gan Media Wales. Mae 16 person gwahanol yn cyfrannu ond mae un [...]

Hacio’r Iaith – what it is, why it is and what happened (monster post!)

A group of us did a free, open event in Aberystwyth on 30th January 2010 called Hacio’r Iaith. It was fun. I learned things. It was based on the BarCamp format. You can use the format to have a conference on any subject and many people do. Some people call it an unconference.
The reasons we [...]

haciaith.com – Enghraifft cyntaf o P2 yn Gymraeg

Wnes i ddefnyddio’r thema P2 dwywaith cynt:

Blog preifat “tu ôl i’r wal-tân” am blogio am brosiect mewn grŵp (well na ebost weithiau)
geekcluster.org (grŵp hacio, caledwedd ayyb, bob mis)

Nawr:

Mae Hacio’r Iaith yn digwydd penwythnos yma yn Aberystwyth. Dyn ni wedi cyfieithu’r thema yn arbennig. Dyn ni’n profi’r thema gyda 40 person ar haciaith.com am blogio byw. [...]

Thema P2 am WordPress ar gael yn Gymraeg

Dw i’n caru’r thema P2 am WordPress. Mae’n wych am gymunedau bach, nodiadau datblygu, blogio byw, ayyb.
Dyn ni newydd wedi cyfieithu’r thema. Ti’n gallu lawrlwytho fersiwn Cymraeg yma:
cy.po
cy.mo
Diolch i Bryn Salisbury, Rhys Wynne a Rhodri ap Dyfrig am eich help gyda’r cyfieithiad. Diolch i WordPress ac Automattic hefyd.
Ti’n gallu defnyddio’r cyfieithiad gyda dy wefan dy [...]

NoBonus4RBS will fly and fly

There are currently 7771 members of the Facebook group “NoBonus4RBS“, started by Billy Bragg.
Let’s watch it fly and fly.
RATM wasn’t the first successful Facebook group-based campaign (see HSBC’s student overdraft charges, for instance). But I think it is a good model to emulate.
As I said here about song-based campaigns, negative campaigns can work (by that [...]

Pam dylet ti agor dy broffil Twitter

Dw i wastad yn siomedig pan mae siaradwyr Cymraeg yn cau proffiliau nhw.
Dw i dal yn casglu cofrestr o proffiliau Cymraeg. Ewch i’r gofrestr a darllena pobol eraill sy’n rhannu pethau. Diolch iddyn nhw. Dyn ni’n adeiladu’r rhwydwaith Cymraeg person wrth berson.
Mae Twitter yn gweithio yn dda pan ti’n agor dy broffil i bobol eraill [...]

Cofrestrau defnyddiol ar Hedyn

Dw i dal yn meddwl am y rhwydwaith Cymraeg arlein. Dw i newydd wedi creu tair cofrestr:

Blogiau
http://hedyn.net/cyfeirlyfr#blogiau
Blogiau/gwefannau newyddion sy’n cysgu
http://hedyn.net/cyfeirlyfr#blogiaugwefannau_newyddion_sy_n_cysgu
Cofrestrau siaradwyr Cymraeg ar Twitter (cofrestr o gofrestrau!)
http://hedyn.net/cyfeirlyfr#twitter

Mae cofrestr fwyaf ar Twitter yw carlmorris/cymraeg gyda 262 siaradwr ar hyn o bryd. Maen nhw i gyd yn rhugl ac eithrio ychydig o ddysgwyr.
Ymuna Hedyn a ychwanega unrhyw [...]

Vote for Twitter to be translated into Welsh

At the moment Twitter’s web interface is only available in four languages – English, Japanese, French and Spanish. Also on the way now are Italian and German.
So Twitter Inc have decided to increase support for the world’s languages, which is an excellent move. They’ll be asking users to collaborate on translating the interface, which again [...]

Stuff worth reading about openness

I maintain another blog called Open Season which is all about openness and open source. I’ve been using it to share links to articles, along with a sample quote each time. Each post takes 25 seconds or so with Tumblr.
I wrote about it here in June 2009. Just mentioning it again as some of the [...]