An online notebook
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 Happy Like Murderers) or the recent Best and Edwards about the Manchester United players; or … Keep reading
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 for that Webex subscription any more! Excellent stuff.
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 to the rather lovely invite Tim has designed: We are a collection of youth workers, … Keep reading
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 it before. Another problem for RSS n00bs is that of where you can kind good … Keep reading