Wednesday, 31 December, 2008

Bookmarks for December 30th through December 31st

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 30th through December 31st: 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community – Chris Brogan shares some blogging magic TDO Mini Forms WordPress Plugin (v0.12.5) [thedeadone.net] – "This plugin allows you to add a form…

Best of DavePress 2008

Here are the posts in decreasing order of popularity that seem to have caught people’s attention in the last 12 months: The UKGovWeb Twitterverse WordPress.com widget guide 10 Cool WordPress themes 8 tips for beginner bloggers Macbook Wireless Problem Effective…

What a year!

There’s not long left of 2008 now. It’s been one of the most remarkable years of my life. I started it living in Mawsley, near Kettering, which I and my family hated. We then moved to Broughton, also near Kettering,…

Some resolutions

Or maybe just stuff I’d like to get round to doing in 2009… Get more collaborative: I’d like to spend more time working with other people, and I’m hoping that in 2009 there will be plenty of opportunities for this…

Tuesday, 30 December, 2008

TwitterHack

Twitterhack is a new blog I have started. And it’s horrible.   I hate ads on blogs, and this one has lots of them. It even has ads in the RSS, and the RSS isn’t even full text! Here’s why…

FriendConnect

I hadn’t really had a chance to have a proper play with FriendConnect before today. It’s basically a Google service that lets you add social functionality to your website, based on the OpenSocial framework. This means that if you have…

Bookmarks for December 28th through December 30th

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 28th through December 30th: Oxite – Lab – MIX Online – Microsoft's open source blog platform / CMS? Front Seat – Software for Civic Life – "Front Seat is a civic software company and…

Monday, 29 December, 2008

Community facilitators

From Rich Millington: A moderator keeps things normal. A moderator removes the extremes from the community. Moderating isn’t as hard as moderators would have you believe. You can typically find community members to do it. A facilitator makes it easier…

Sunday, 28 December, 2008

Bookmarks for December 21st through December 28th

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 21st through December 28th: MoMB Labs | Twitter 100 – 100 of the best Twitter services How to make a Delicious “plugin” for Chrome – Simple bookmarklet to use delicious in Google's Chrome browser Pods…

Tom Watson’s Christmas Message

Our Minister for Digital Engagement’s blog has a stark message: Globalisation in a connected world did for Woolies. When my son is a teenager, his friends will arrange to meet online and share their music tastes before pressing the ‘buy’…