On blog comments

How do you track the conversations that go on in comments around the blogosphere? It’s easy enough to know what the actual blogs themselves are doing, after all – we have our feed readers, Google’s blog search and technorati. We have trackbacks and pings to let us know when people are linking to us on … Keep reading

Polling day

Every day, WordPress and the community around it manages to surprise and delight me more. I have mentioned how it can be used to consult before, specifically by using the amazing CommentPress theme. But you can also create small polls to run on your site too, whether on a page of their own or by … Keep reading

barcampukgovweb Developments

The community that formed around the barcamp for uk gov web types (hence the name) has been working hard to start developing idea and connections that can start to have a real beneficial effect on the way that public services are using the web as a medium for communication and collaboration. One of the ways … Keep reading

links for 2008-02-07

Google Spreadsheet Surveys Use Google Docs to run public surveys and consultations. Cool! (tags: survey tools interactive google) SurveyGizmo: WordPress Survey Plugin – Online Survey Tool Plugin that allows you to run surverys inside WP (tags: wordpress plugin survey plugins) The Omni Group – OmniGraffle Diagram application for the Mac – think Visio (tags: mac … Keep reading