I can’t believe I’ve neglected my little corner of the internet world for this long.

For those rabid readers mentally willing me to make a post, then this one’s for you (well both of you, and you know who you are, yes you… and your imginary friend )

OK, so onto the needing feedback bit…

I’m thinking of making big changes round here, and for a few reasons.

First off, I want to do a redesign of the site.  I’m never really happy with other people’s themes, sure they’re good and it saves me the hassle of having to actually do any work on it, but I always find that the themes out there are always missing something that I want.

So I’m gonna redesign the site so it’s all about me, me, me.  I may even stick a picture of my ugly mug on it as well so you know it’s this particular Jon Dean and not some other random Jon Dean (who by the way isn’t as cool, or as good looking, or as funny, or as deluded as this particular Jon Dean).

Secondly, I’m thinking of doing some reports to give away for Christmas.

I know, I know, it’s only September and Christmas is ages away, but I figure if Tesco can start pushing Christmas good now then so can I :p

Besides, it’s gonna take me time to do the site redesign (hey, I do have a day job you know!) and it’s gonna take time to write the reports.

Anyways, I still realise I’ve not asked about the feedback I want from you!

Well, if I’m gonna spend time writing up reports to give away it would be better to actually do them on what your readers want to, you know, actually read.

So, I want you to either leave me a comment or submit a message via the Contact Us page, telling me exactly what topics you’d like me to cover in the reports and then I’ll get to work writing some more witty and educational prose for you.

So what are you waiting for… go leave me a comment or send me a message and I can get some report-tastic work on!

Jon.

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I spotted this cool little widget add-on on Mashable the other day and have only just got round to testing it out.

It’s basically a text-to-speech button to make your blog posts an instant podcast which can be played on-screen or downloaded to your iTunes, save as an mp3 file and a few other options.

What’s really good about this is that it opens your blog (or any web-site for that matter) to people who have accessibility issues instantly.  Really helpful for people who are interested in you and your topic, but have problems reading that tiny text you’ve chosen as part of your theme (I know I’m a bugger for doing that!).

All you need to do is download it, ftp to your widgets admin then activate it.  Voila, instant podcast!

If you click on the “Listen Now” button below the blog title you get the listening options and you’re good to go.

I particularly like the Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights type use of the glockenspiel at the start.

Oh and did I mention that it’s FREE…

You can check it out here at Odiogo’s website.