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Gordon Burn, in Born Yesterday, writing about the erstwhile Eastenders actress Susan Tully: A colleague had logged her onto YouTube for the first time that very afternoon, and the fact that just tapping the words ‘Michelle Fowler’ into the thing…
Paul Canning – challenged by Tom Watson to do so – has come up with ten things that need to be looked at as part of the government’s web strategy. His number one issue is ‘findability’: Search is the prime…
The church in the village we moved to last month.
John Naughton’s Observer column is required reading. Today he casts his eye on the Asus Eee PC: Besides, the limitations of Mark I ought not to blind us to its significance – which is the cruel way it highlights the…
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…
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 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…
Tim Davies has blogged again about UK Youth Online, the barcamp he is arranging for somewhere in London on 17 May. It reminded me that I have totally failed to post about it yet. What’s it all about? Well, according…
Spotted this outside the Novotel in Milton Keynes this morning. How odd!
I’m a big fan of RSS, ever since I first discovered it through Bloglines a few years ago. For such a simple bit of technology, though, it’s often hard to explain how it works to those that have never used…