Social networks, or beefed-up blogs?

I have been looking around recently at social networkings systems, focusing on freely available ones, such as Elgg (which powers the rather lovely UnLtdWorld, and which has its proper v1.0 release out soon) and PeopleAggregator. The other option I had thought of would be to fashion something out of Drupal. A post at Read/WriteWeb, however, … Keep reading

My Top Twitter Tip

Twitter is great, it really is. Even with the downtime, the dropping of SMS updates in the UK and other places, and all the other little irritations with the service, it still manages to inspire a considerable loyalty among those that use it. As I have written elsewhere, it’s the fact that Twitter works as … Keep reading

Blog Action Day 2008

Blog Action Day is happening on October 15th this year, with a theme of ‘Poverty’. What’s Blog Action Day? Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger … Keep reading

Bookmarks for August 15th through August 16th

Stuff I have bookmarked for August 15th through August 16th: Council defends job ‘Down Under’ – Interesting flexible working initiative at Fenland Council in Cambridgeshire NDS – News Distribution Service – RSS feeds for every gov't department – well done Justin!