Thursday, 6 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-06

BBC NEWS | School blanks out faces of pupils A child protection group has criticised a primary school in Essex for blurring the faces of pupils on its website. (tags: online risk children identity) Extension:SocialProfile – MediaWiki Build social networking…

Working together

I really like the idea of using the web to bring people together and work on problems out in the open, rather like David Wilcox and Simon Berry did in their bid for the Innovation Exchange project. They used Drupal,…

Wednesday, 5 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-05

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress | Performancing.com A liberal definition of ‘unique’ but useful nonetheless. (tags: advice blog blogging communications wordpress) Why should leaders blog? Brilliant stuff from Nick Booth (tags: blogging leaders podnosh) Show# 72: Big Ideas, Small…

TwitterNotes

TwitterNotes lets you post yourself notes using Twitter, just by prefixing the note with a ‘+’. Dead easy, and great from a mobile phone. There is even a mechanism for making private notes, and tagging them using the hashtags convention.

Tuesday, 4 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-04

building a better BLOG Better Blog is a bloggers’ community built on the lovely Ning. (tags: blogging blogs collaboration communication community howto network ning)

BuddyPress

This looks very exciting. Thanks to Nick for the tip off. Edit: More via TechCrunch: It is easy to dismiss this as completely unnecessary given the abundance of social networks already out there, as well as application development platforms like…

I promise…

…not to write another blog post about blogging for a while. I do need another area of obsession though. Wikis? Social networks? Any other suggestions?

It’s Not Just the Blog

As part of some notes I have been putting together for getting started with blogging, I’ve written about some of the other services that it might be a good idea to register with, in addition to your blog: No blog…