Education LGSearch?

You might wonder why I haven’t put education sites into LGSearch. Well, the reason is that someone else already has done, and I’m not in the business of thunder stealing. The new links page at LGSearch reveals all. At the moment, the links are limited to three, but they are good ones. The first two … Keep reading

LGSearch+ Update

The ‘slicing’ of the RSS feeds is now working, so now only 10 items per feed are displayed. I had only tested the layout in FireFox at the weekend, and having now tested it in IE 5.5 the feeds carry on to the right of the screen, needing a scroll. I don’t know if this … Keep reading

LGSearch+

The latest development to LGSearch is LGSearch+ – which is simply a different search page, but with the latest news from the IDeA, The Guardian‘s ‘Society’ section, the latest links from Info4Local and the Local Government Association‘s news. These are automatically updated through RSS. I used the open source RSS parser MagpieRSS to produce the … Keep reading

What is Social Media?

Robert Scoble asks ‘What is social media?’ Stowe Boyd answers: Social Media Is Not A Broadcast Medium: unlike traditional publishing — either online or off — social media are not organized around a one-to-many communications model. Social Media Is Many-To-Many: All social media experiments worthy of the name are conversational, and involve an open-ended discussion … Keep reading

Larsson’s Greatest Goal

Am not surprised at all about the impact Henrik Larsson has had at Man Utd since joining. You can’t help but feel it was a shame that he spent so much of his footballing life in the backwater that is Scottish football. I found a YouTube video of one of my favourite ever goals – … Keep reading