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A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic Richard MacManus on the various sites out there for diabetics. I’ve been looking for similar stuff as a relatively recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic myself. (tags: web2.0 diabetes) BBC,…
KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion! This service allows you to download videos from streaming sites like YouTube to your computer, meaning that you can embed them in other media, like Powerpoint presentations for example. Useful!…
Wow. The post I wrote this morning on my ITunes problem has already been republished by a splogger. They work fast, these guys. And at least they linked back to here 😉
Inspired by the recent screenwriters’ strike in Hollywood – what if bloggers refused to blog? [youtube:] Via Matt Mullenweg.
I’m not having a lot of luck, technology-wise, at the moment. After all my problems with FireFox, it’s now ITunes’ turn to start playing up. I thought it had been behaving itself for a while… Anyway, last night I bought…
Contact | The Connected Republic “This site was set up with aim of creating a community of innovators interested in the scope for transforming the public sector.” Looks good, and WordPress based. Via Jeremy Gould. (tags: community publicsector wordpress connectedrepublic…
edmittance’s bookmarks on del.icio.us Ed Mitchell’s shared bookmarks are a real treasure trove. Well worth subscribing to! (tags: del.icio.us edmitchell) Productivity tools Lee Hopkins on the software that helps him work. Some cool stuff here, including SnagIt! and Xilisoft Video…
Here’s a little presentation I have cobbled together to try and show what’s possible with a web browser these days. It certainly isn’t intended to be comprehensive, rather to give folk an idea of where they can go to start…
Have downloaded and am using the FireFox 3 beta, partly out of interest but also because of the many problems I have been having with version 2 since I switched to Vista. I’ve found myself having to reinstall FF on…
I have had a really great idea for a little site that I think will be of use to quite a few people in the UK. Trouble is, it relies on using the Google Maps API, and I haven’t a…
Knowledge management Great article from CIO Insight on knowledge management and how it can be done successfully. Thanks to Lee Hopkins for the link. (tags: km knowledge management)
Three types of community Ed Mitchell on 3 types of community: centralised, decentralised and distributed. Interesting reading. (tags: communities edmitchell)
LGSearch | Google Groups I have set up a Google Group to act as a mailing list for LGSearch, the public sector personalised search engine I developed and occasionally maintain. (tags: lgsearch googlegroups) MT Community Solution: Blogs Meet Forums 2.0…
Nice graphical representation of the social media landscape, posted to Flickr by DBarefoot.
JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 Interesting collecion of academic articles from the “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”. Via Owen Blacker at MySociety. (tags: research socialnetworking academic web2.0 culture media)
Caroline Middlebrook has produced a guide to Twitter – what it is and why we should all be using it. Great stuff. Thanks to Phil Bradley for the link – I hadn’t come across Caroline’s blog before but am now…
CommentPress CommentPress is a WordPress theme that allows commenters to record their views against individual paragrahs of a post, thus making it a live consultation document. Thanks to Simon Dickson for pointing it out. (tags: wordpress collaboration blog comments blogging…
It’s stunning, powerful and elegant… so set the iPhone free John Naughton’s Observer column on Apple’s iPhone (tags: iphone naughton observer apple) Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. Jing is a service that allows you to create…
Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! Stephen Fry on the iPhone: “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the…
I love Charlie Brooker’s columns at The Guardian‘s Comment is Free site as much as I love his TV stuff. I’m just catching up on his posts after being offline for a while, and came across this gem: Years ago,…