An online notebook
I’ve been adding plenty of video’s to my VodPod, but of course they don’t appear in the RSS feed, so those that don’t regularly visit the site won’t know they are there.
So, here’s a list of some of the video’s I’ve recently added:
Have you got some favourite online videos you think other LGNewMedia readers might be interested in? Join the VodPod and post them!
Here’s a presentation I have put together to explain some of the whats, whys and hows of creating a Google Customised Search.
Evan Davis, BBC News’ economics guy, has a pretty good blog called Evanomics (nice). Yesterday he posted on the hot topic of the moment, private equity. And as a blog post, for me it is pretty close to perfect.
For those that do not feel they know what private equity is all about, let me offer a few arguments on both sides.
First an explanation. Private equity is quite simple. Investors borrow money (from banks); they usually add a little of their own and use the cash to buy companies. Often the companies they buy were publicly-owned – in the sense that a large number of relatively anonymous shareholders buy and sell shares in them on the stock market – and once bought, they become privately-owned, in that their shares are no longer traded.
Davis provides explanation and opinion, facts and commentary. Despite reading articles every day in the papers about private equity, I never understood as fully as I do know after reading this post.
It’s a great template for new bloggers in terms of style and content.
The latest stage of my attempt to take over the world of vertical search is KMSearch, which focuses on knowledge management resources.
As well as the search engine, there is a wiki to manage the site, which includes the list of sites searched. Please get involved if you have sites you would like to see added.
Big thanks to Lucas McDonnell, whose post on 46 KM resources kicked things off for me.
Simon Dickson points out that the latest Beta of Safari, the web browser for the MacOS operating system, has now been ported to Windows.
I’ve just installed the new public beta of Apple’s Safari browser on my Windows PC. It works, it looks like a Mac app, and it seems pretty quick. Will I be switching from Firefox? Er, no. And I can’t imagine many others doing so either, speed boost or no speed boost.
I’m going to download it and have a play, as Simon says, it’s good for testing if nothing else. But I’m a FireFox man through and through.
There is a big, long post brewing inside me at the moment about browsers and their use within local government. I feel it’s one of the major things holding back the use of new web technology in the sector.
We need to get Firefox into local government – or at the very least, IE7.