Friday, 11 April, 2008

Empowerment packs from the gov’t

The Department for Communities and Local Government have released something called a ‘Community Power Pack‘: The Community Power Pack has been created to help local groups to organise and facilitate discussions on the topic of empowerment. The pack contains suggestions…

The News as a Novel

Am reading Gordon Burns’ Born Yesterday at the moment. Burn is one of my favourite writers, whether he’s producing non-fiction such as his remarkable books about serial killers (Peter Sutcliffe in Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son; Fred and Rose West in…

Dimdim

Dimdim looks very interesting. It’s a way of hosting your own online conferences or (ugh) webinars. You can do this yourself by downloading the open source package, or by using the hosted option which is, I think, free. No need…