Saturday, 16 February, 2008

Trust in Web 2.0

Danah Boyd writes a post about a rather worrying occurence: a friend who had their Google account taken away from them: Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make…

William Shaw on Scientology

William Shaw is a great writer, and a great guy. He’s written a number of non-fiction titles, mainly on counter-cultural issues and is now doing some exciting stuff with social media, looking into stuff like uses the blog format to…

Friday, 15 February, 2008

The value of online communities

Jeremiah Owyang posts about a report he has written for Forrester. The executive summary is all we really need: To host a successful community, think of it as you would product development: Start by focusing on objectives, chart a road…

8 tips for beginner bloggers

I have been thinking quite a bit recently about what people need to do before they start a blog. I know that one should say that blogging doesn’t necessarily suit everybody, but, to be honest, if there is novel in…

Thursday, 14 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-14

My Top 10 Essential Drupal Modules Steve Purkiss lists his favourite plugins for Drupal – some good stuff here. (tags: drupal modules)

Government offline

The Economist has published an interesting article on “Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fails”: Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits?…

the interruption

I’ve started a podcast! the interruption is going to be a weekly chat between me and someone doing something exciting in social media and web 2.0 in the UK. The first episode is a discussion with Paul Johnston of Cisco,…

Wednesday, 13 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-13

How to Get Top Blogs to Notice You Chris Garrett on how to get the attention of other bloggers (tags: blogging)

Tuesday, 12 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-12

WordPress Development Updates wpdevel.wordpress.com is a new Prologue-themed blog that will follow the release of WordPress 2.5 through frequent updates from various WordPress developers (tags: wordpress) A deep look to Firefox 3 Beta 3 : Mozilla Links Firefox 3 B3…