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Angel
Taken as I sped by on my way to Newcastle. I wasn’t driving, honest, officer. I remember being mesmerised by this on my first (and up ’til now, only) trip to the North East. It’s lost none of its magic…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Tuesday, 22 April, 2008
Monday, 21 April, 2008
Flat Earth News
I am currently reading Flat Earth News by Nick Davies, which focuses on journalism and news and how the profession is failing in its duty to protect and disseminate the truth. This isn’t, Davies claims, because of a some moral…
Thursday, 17 April, 2008
How do you measure blog success?
What sort of things do you look at to measure the ‘success’ of your blog, whether as a whole site or on a post by post process. I guess it might depend on why you are blogging as to what…
Skills 2.0
There are some interesting points in this PDF about the skills required in the age of web 2.0 from Harold Jarche, including: Attitude: Accepting that we will never know everything, but that others may be able to help, is the…
BBC blogging
Interesting re-post of an article that appeared in the BBC’s in-house magazine Ariel by Rory Cellan-Jones on the issues around the launch of the various blogs written by BBC journalists: It strikes me the initial concerns were twofold – that…
Wednesday, 16 April, 2008
Civicsurf in action
Shane McCracken has blogged at Cllr 2.0 about the experience of Norfolk County Councillor Tony Tomkinson who started blogging at the beginning of this year: The post is a superb example of how using a blog a civic leader can…
The need for organisation
Interesting post from MJ Ray on the need for organisation – which perhaps busts the myth that open source software development is a perfect model to follow for other types of groups: Are free software users particularly bad at the…
Going local
Jon Bounds has put together a nice little site for guiding people around Birmingham. It’s wiki based, so anyone can get involved, and there is some nice Google Maps action going on there too. There’s quite a big group of…
Tuesday, 15 April, 2008
Digital inclusion
From a piece by Helen Milner of UfI in egov monitor: The flipside of our increasing reliance on ICT – in public, economic and social life – is that the digitally excluded, by default, also become excluded from public services,…
Monday, 14 April, 2008
Upgrading…
…this blog to WordPress 2.5. Possible weirdness ahead! Update: upgrade went fine, with the exception that my theme got overwritten, and my backup wasn’t complete. Hence why you might be looking at the boring old default theme. Am on the…