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Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Online collaboration does work
Despite now working in further education, I’m still involved in the predominantly local government based Communities of Practice social online collaboration platform, which is developed by the Improvement & Development Agency. For a quick run through of the whys, whats,…
Best British football ground…
…is of course the home of the mighty Reds, at least according to The Guardian: 1) The City Ground, 1935 – present Why on earth Nottingham Forest’s board want to move away from the City Ground is be££££££££££££££££££££££yond m£££££££££y k£££££££££££££££££££££en,…
10 Cool WordPress themes
One of the many reasons why WordPress is such a super publishing platform are the many themes which are freely available to give your site a professional look and feel. 1. Envy – WPDesigner.com Envy is a bold and bright…
A sense of place
The Birmingham Bloggers meet last night went well, with a good turnout and some exceptionally high-quality discussions on a variety of topics. I found myself burning up with jealously a couple of times as people talked about the exciting projects…
FeedDemon 2.6 problem
There’s a bug with FeedDemon 2.6, I think. Whenever I click the little orange RSS icon on the FireFox address bar to subscribe to a new blog, it tries to open a new FeedDemon window. Every. Single. Time. This is…
links for 2008-01-11
Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond – ReadWriteWeb Interesting arguments. (tags: socialmedia web2.0 social collaboration blogging socialnetworking) Bloke finds missus working in brothel | The Register Oh my lord. (tags: brothel shock! horror!)
WordPress is taking over
Neville Hobson reports on the new site for BA’s new airline. And guess what? It’s running on WordPress. More and more, public bodies and corporations are moving towards WordPress as a lightweight, flexible and powerful way of establishing a social…
Birmingham Bloggers Get Together
Looking forward to this evening, because Nick Booth has organised a get-together of Birmingham bloggers. OK, so I live in Kettering, but work in Coventry and that’s kind of close. Here’s the Upcoming page for the event. Am looking forward…
Moving links in WordPress
WordPress never fails to astound me with its brilliance. I still haven’t finished putting this blog together properly yet, but today thought I ought to at least cobble together a mini blogroll of some of my favourite fellow bloggers. I’d…
links for 2008-01-10
Allardyce reign ends at Newcastle Absolute madness. (tags: football) Getting started with video Neville Hobson provides some great links and advice for getting video online. Something I am particularly interested in at the moment. (tags: video socialmedia) Oxford Internet Institute…
Help! WordPress tag clouds
My tag cloud (on the right of the screen on my blog’s homepage) is a complete mess. I need to edit the font sizes used, and maybe limit the cloud to tags which are used more than once, say. I…
Open source is best
Simon Dickson muses on the advantages of using open source platforms, as opposed to proprietary ones, in the light of the Interesource debacle. It’s funny. Not so long ago, the question was ‘why should I be using open source?’ Increasingly,…
Newsgator RSS apps now free!
The Newsgator family of desktop RSS applications are now available for download free of charge! This is great news, and I would heartily recommend that anyone who hasn’t tried it before gives the Windows application, FeedDemon, a try. I have…
The ‘Lazysphere’?
Steve Rubel has posted about "The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging". Somewhere circa 2006 the tech blogger mindset shifted – at least among the majority. People who used to work hard creating and spreading big ideas resorted to…
barcampUKGovWeb hotting up
Jeremy Gould has been hard at work getting the barcamp for UK Government web types sorted out. We’ve got a venue – the Google offices in London. Cool. All the details are on the wiki and Jeremy’s blog. The Google…
links for 2008-01-09
Big Think – We Are What You Think The thinking man (or woman)’s YouTube. (tags: video ideas politics academic) Search Wikia: Not Even A Remote Threat To Google SearchEngineLand’s take on Search Wikia (tags: search wikia searchengineland) ReadBurner | Public…
The Innocents
Just finished watching The Innocents, the 1961 film based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Here‘s the IMDB link to find out more, or there’s always Wikipedia. It really is one of the scariest things I think I…
links for 2008-01-08
Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown. Michael Arrington trashes the alpha launch of Wikia Search, the ‘human powered search engine’. (tags: search wikia) Wikia Search – Miles Behind the Competition Mashable’s view on Wikia Search (tags: google mahalo search wikia)…
Wikia Search Launches
There has been a flurry of largely negative postings about the newly launched alpha of Wikia Search – Jimmy Wales’ human powered search engine. I’ve bookmarked quite a few at del.icio.us, which will pop up on this blog around midnight…