Quora
Quora is an interesting looking service, providing a fairly straightforward question and answer platform. It’s been in closed beta for a while, but now has been unleashed onto the public at large. It’s all about capturing the activity we all…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Everything you ever need to know about the internet
John Naughton is consistently one of the – if not the – best writers we have about technology. His A Brief History Of The Future is a simply fantastic introduction to the internet: why and how it came about, from…
Collaborative innovation
This is a great video from John Seely Brown, who is a really interesting guy. His website blurb states that I’m a visiting scholar at USC and the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. In a previous life,…
Reflecting on Local by Social
I wrote up quite a bit of what was said at the Local by Social event yesterday, but didn’t add much in the way of comment or analysis. This post makes up for that. I’ll try and sum up what…
Bookmarks for June 7th through June 17th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. What Does Government Transformation Mean, Exactly? – "Rather than fantasizing about the myth of transformation, governments have to accept that future is no longer predictable and focus on what changes…
Local by Social: Networked Neighbourhoods
Here’s Hugh Flouch! Hyperlocal communities Harringay Online – 2,900 members, 4-500 visits a day, 2-300 visitors a day Has discussion forum, event promotion, information about public services, photo gallery and local history archive ‘a bible of local information and gossip’…
Local by Social: School of Everything
Paul Miller now up, from the School of Everything. SoE is all about getting more people to learn – the things they want to learn about Since Sept 2008 Private enterprise backed by investment SoE can help reduce costs, do…
Local by Social: Patient Opinion
Patient Opinion is a great site for people to leave feedback about their experiences with health services. Really micro level issues can be discussed and action taken Based on the telling of stories by service users Great example of dodgy…
Local by Social: Do the Green Thing
Katie from Do the Green Thing is next. Trying to tackle climate change creatively People are inclined to help with the environment, but how do you make them become a bit more active? Obligation probably not the best route Make…
Local by Social: Creating future services
Next up is Hugo Manassei from Participle. Participle take on a new issue a year, so far: ageing, families and youth People are skipping the “third age” – period when you have retired but are physically healthy and active. This…