It’s been a long-time coming but low and behold – Newcastle upon Tyne finally gets its very own cycle-hire scheme in the form of ScratchBikes and the brains behind the operation

WordPress 3 is nearly upon us, it is currently in release candidate, one step away from launch. We have been playing with it so we’ll be ready. Now is a good time to reveal some of the cool new features available in this update.

The big WordPress scoop of the day is the deal struck with the creators of WooThemes Custom Navigation to include it’s code into the core of WordPress 3. This is a major addition that will add some really cool functionality.

I see on the Guardian website today that they have unveiled an interesting experiment they’ve been working on called Zeitgeist (A German word which means “spirit of the times”). They describe it as: “a new way to reveal and explore content on the Guardian site, according to “social signals” from users.”

All web developers have a love/hate relationship with IE6, but only since the Chinese attacked Google using an IE6 security hack has the matter really come to the public attention.