Great talk from John Graham-Cumming on the history of computing and how nothing’s very new.
Month: July 2013
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Social media record keeping for government – is it necessary? | Digital democracy, news, thinking, tips & tricks
- Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It
- 10 Visual Steps To Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon – ReadWrite
- How To Self-Publish A Bestseller: Publishing 3.0
- The future of programming
- Libraries and makerspaces join up in DC, Chicago – Boing Boing
- Exhibit – Publishing Framework for Data-Rich Interactive Web Pages
- 4 Reasons Why You Should Host a Social Media Surgery in Your Community
- The paranoid #! Security Guide (linux)
- Why mobile web apps are slow | Sealed Abstract
Blogging in Fargo
Fargo is one of my favourite web tools to have emerged recently. One thing I really love is the way that it keeps iterating and adding neat new features.
It’s now super easy to publish your own blog via Fargo. Here’s a video showing how.
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Not a geek – Matt Gemmell
- Technology vs. Democracy from @jjn1
- Textal – A free smartphone app for text analysis
- Structure and Harmony With Innovation Tools via @wazokuhq
- Some Mooc points (specifically related to adult learning) from @petecaldwell
- Understanding Douglas Engelbart by @jjn1
- A PTLLS microteach on copyright for the classroom by @louisebrown
- Social Business Can Transform Public Services
- A creative and sustainable approach to volunteering? | Pete Caldwell
- Michael Birch’s Bebo prequel – a tech startup story actually worth reading. No, really.
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Lockdown – Marco.org (thoughts on RSS etc)
- Doug Engelbart, visionary
- David Wilcox » Realising the knowledge assets of research for the rest of us – how about a set of recipe cards?
- LEGO Cultures of Creativity report launched today – David Gauntlett
- Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones! / Could be big news – I hope so
- On Medium
- Learning is too important to be left to the professionals | Harold Jarche
- Half an Hour: RSS Changeover Day Experiences
- David Wilcox » A new initiative supporting communities to develop digital assets
- The Race To Replace Google Reader – ReadWrite