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Dave

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Face in the Stone

Here’s a photo I took whilst we were away in Cornwall last week – it’s almost like it’s alive! I’m about halfway through posting up the best of the 200-odd photos I took – you can find them all here.…

theWikiFinder

I’ve been playing about quite a bit with Google CSE this weekend, firstly seeing how it would work with Twitter (as mentioned here previously), and secondly now with wikis. There is a load of great information out there on the…

Planning workshops

I’m doing some work at the minute putting together the agenda for Tuesday’s socia media shindig in Coventry for members of the IDeA Social Media and Online Collaboration Community of Practice (…and breathe). It can be tricky keeping an eye…

WordPress.com widget guide

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that while WordPress.com is probably the best place to start for beginner bloggers, it also isn’t the most customisable of environments. In other words, if you want total control of what your blog looks like, you need…

Find a Tweet

I wondered what would happen if I included every public Twitter profile in a customised Google search. The result was a pretty cool way of finding what people are saying on Twitter on a certain topic. You can have a…

links for 2008-02-21

Projects wiki Cool wiki started by Chris Brogan, listing Twitter profiles by interest, location etc. A great way to those new to the service to find folk to follow. (tags: twitter wiki community)

World of Twitter

One of the great things about Twitter is the community that comes with it. Not just the community in terms of the people you follow, and who follow you, but also the network of people working to make Twitter more…

Mozilla Messaging

TechCrunch announces the launch of a new Mozilla (the guys behind open source projects like FireFox, to name one) site called Mozillla Messaging. This site aims to ‘fix’ internet communications, firstly by driving the development of the new version of…

DavePress WP Plugin-orama

WordPress is the best, we all know this. As well as the amazing free themes that are available, there are also tonnes of plugins which make your blog do interesting and cool stuff that it can’t do out of the…

links for 2008-02-19

Is the Social Media News Release necessary? Michael O’Connor Clarke on the social media press release (tags: socialmedia socialmediapressrelease)

WetPaint wikis in plain english

WetPaint is a hosted wiki service that I haven’t really used before – I tend to stick with WikiSpaces, though have used pbwiki a fair bit recently for the barcampukgovweb. By the looks of this great video from the Common…

links for 2008-02-18

A d c o l o g | Learning Technology in the Yorkshire & Humber ACL community Kevin Wright has started blogging – good man! (tags: blog kevin+wright) St Enodoc’s Church, Trebetherick – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Didn’t get to…

links for 2008-02-17

Defining the press release Neville Hobson on the social media release. (tags: socialmediarelease, neville+hobson) Early Editorial (Skitch) | Macgasm Skitch is indeed an excellen little creengrab tool for OSX (tags: skitch mac software) Google Blogger Users Finally Get To Schedule…

Defining social media & web2.0

The diagram (click it for a readable version) above is one I put together a while ago to try and explain what I think the terms social media and web2.0 actually mean, and how the two relate to one another.…

Anonymity part 3

John Naughton: …the Guardian has a policy of allowing people to post comments anonymously, which IMHO is a good way of encouraging people to behave badly, because they don’t have to take responsibility for their views. I’ve always thought that…

Planning trips, 2.0

We’re off for a trip next week, to Cornwall for a few days. There may well be some light blogging ahead. Anyway, we are trying to cram in as much stuff as we can, and make the best use of…

links for 2008-02-16

CiviCRM CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. (tags: crm opensource drupal cms joomla software management…

Trust in Web 2.0

Danah Boyd writes a post about a rather worrying occurence: a friend who had their Google account taken away from them: Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make…