Thursday, 8 May, 2008

Get satisfaction with your council

Jon Bounds has come up with another brilliant idea – using the ‘people powered customer support’ site GetSatisfaction to create a community around the services provided by Birmingham City Council. So, I thought, could this work for a local council?…

‘It’s not just video’ at DC10plus

My second post has appeared at the DC10plus blog, on some of the other, non-video elements of our social reporting experiment at the Digital Inclusion conference: By using tags in this way, it means that anyone can publish content and…

links for 2008-05-07

evoice home “evoice intends to enhance the interest and the engagement of European citizens in general political issues within a representative democracy.” (tags: edemocracy research europe engagement participation community online)

Wednesday, 7 May, 2008

Nick Davies at Wolfson College

John Naughton links to an event taking place in Cambridge on 19th May: Nick Davies, a well-known and award-winning investigative journalist, has recently published Flat Earth News, a controversial and highly-critical analysis of the British news media in which he…

Tuesday, 6 May, 2008

The real value of Flickr

Having an iPhone has really liberated me in term of the way that I use Flickr. This would be true of any phone with decent internet connectivity, and indeed there are plenty of handsets out there with better camera functionality…

Telling stories at DC10plus

As part of our work social reporting the Digital Inclusion conference last week, David and I agreed to write some posts building on what we had done on DC10plus’ own blog, which is hosted at WordPress.com . The first of…

Monday, 5 May, 2008

links for 2008-05-04

My little Asus Eee PC James Cridland on getting Ubuntu working efficiently on an Eeepc (tags: eeepc asus james+cridland) Is New Media Killing Journalism? Do you care? Charlie Beckett on a recent discussion on the role of citizen journalists. (tags:…

Sunday, 4 May, 2008

Backburner

Things have been relatively quiet here on DavePress, but don’t worry, I have been busy. I’ve been working on a few projects – as well as the social reporting stuff with David – which I will hopefully be able to…

Saturday, 3 May, 2008

links for 2008-05-02

Reflections on event socialreporting « Socialreporter David’s writeup of our experience social reporting at the Digital Inclusion Conference (tags: dc10plus davidwilcox socialreporter)