Dave

Dave

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links for 2008-01-24

blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: new features Create your own limited reddit network. Cool! (tags: reddit social bookmarks news digg communities folksonomy)

links for 2008-01-17

When someone is trying to make conversation, it’s rude to ignore them Ross Ferguson on DIUS’ attempts at effective online consultation. (tags: DIUS consultation ross+ferguson) Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion; Open Source Is A Legitimate Business Model Massive…

links for 2008-01-16

Using Social Media To Create Social Media Training – Social Media Training “This site explores social media training and provides a resource for those looking to evangelize social media in their organizations.” (tags: socialmedia wiki training web2.0) Fleet Street PR:…

Twitterific

Twitter is becoming an indispensable tool for me – albeit one I didn’t know I needed until I started using it in a big way. I guess that as with a lot of these social networking type utilities, Metcalfe’s law…

Podcasts

I like podcasts. I certainly hope the current developments in streamed video don’t mean the death of downloadable audio and video in the near future. Here’s the list of ones I am currently subscribed to and listen on a regular…

Councillor 2.0

Just popped up on the Gallomanor blog – Cllr 2.0: The Ministry of Justice Innovations Fund II approved a bid from Gallomanor and Norfolk County Council to help set this record straight.  We’re filming a group of six Norfolk County…

I’m a bipolar blogger

Writing for a blog is like writing for any other form, you have highs and lows in terms of producing content. What’s important is that you remain consistent in the numbers and length of posts that you produce. People are…

FeedDemon 2.6.0.21

I was alerted by Neville Hobson‘s tweet that a bug fix release of FeedDemon was available for download. This announcement came through the FD support forums, which I never look at, so am thankful to Neville for bringing it to…

links for 2008-01-15

Tips on microphones and related podcast questions : NevilleHobson.com Podcasting tips from Neville Hobson. Very useful! (tags: podcasting, neville+hobson) Next Neville Hobson’s new tech blog. Worth a subscription, folks! (tags: neville+hobson blog wordpress) Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote Speech Leaked…

Cluetrain on slides

Thanks to Lee Hopkins for pointing this out, it’s Doc Searls’ slideshow version of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Excellent quick reading. [slideshare 28722 cluetrain-28722]

Public Sector Social Media Meet

Members of the Community of Practice for Social Media and Online Collaboration are meeting up at the Learning and Skills Council National Office in Coventry on 26th February 2008 between 10am and 3.30pm for a day of Web 2.0 fun…

10 Great Firefox extensions

I love FireFox, because not only is it faster and more secure than Internet Explorer, it’s also a lot more powerful, especially when you consider the many extensions you can use to add functionality. Here’s a list of some of…

The University of Wikipedia

Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK reports on a University tutor banning her students from researching essays on the web: The education world has pursued new technology with an almost evangelical zeal and it is time to take a step back…

Replacing Notepad

Notepad, as I am sure everyone knows, is a text editor that comes free with Windows. It’s very, very basic, but that’s part of its charm. I use it quite a lot, for quickly editing HTML or PHP pages, or…

Use Google CSE on your blog

Google’s customised search engine service is really cool, useful and dead easy to use. It’s what I used to create LGSearch, which is one of the most successful bits of online work I have done. What Google CSE does is…

links for 2008-01-14

Twenty-four Matt Mullenweg is only 24. BASTARD. (tags: wordpress mullenweg young+successful+bastards) SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the ports begin… Great! The original version of Sim City (and my favourite) has had its code released under open source…

A social media software toolkit

Being a blogger is about far more than just words. To that end, you need tools which you feel comfortable with to enable you to create in any number of different media. Here’s some of the software I use to…