Dave

Dave

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Blogging in Plain English

Another super video explaining blogs – soon the Common Craft guys will have covered the whole of Web 2.0! [youtube:] I wonder just how much paid work has come their way since they started doing these free tutorials? Quite a…

links for 2007-12-06

Knives and restaurants Euan MacIntosh’s take on Jimmy Wales’ grear metaphor on how freeing people’s use of the web is like letting folk use knives in restaurants. (tags: jimmywales wikia wikipedia freeweb)

Online Information 2007

Light blogging ahead as I am going to be at the Online Information conference this week. I won’t be taking my laptop with me, but will be twittering my thoughts via my Palm, so do check that out.

links for 2007-11-28

A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic Richard MacManus on the various sites out there for diabetics. I’ve been looking for similar stuff as a relatively recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic myself. (tags: web2.0 diabetes) BBC,…

links for 2007-11-27

KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion! This service allows you to download videos from streaming sites like YouTube to your computer, meaning that you can embed them in other media, like Powerpoint presentations for example. Useful!…

Super-fast splogging

Wow. The post I wrote this morning on my ITunes problem has already been republished by a splogger. They work fast, these guys.  And at least they linked back to here 😉

Bloggers’ strike?

Inspired by the recent screenwriters’ strike in Hollywood – what if bloggers refused to blog? [youtube:] Via Matt Mullenweg.

ITunes aggravation

I’m not having a lot of luck, technology-wise, at the moment. After all my problems with FireFox, it’s now ITunes’ turn to start playing up. I thought it had been behaving itself for a while… Anyway, last night I bought…

links for 2007-11-24

Contact | The Connected Republic “This site was set up with aim of creating a community of innovators interested in the scope for transforming the public sector.” Looks good, and WordPress based. Via Jeremy Gould. (tags: community publicsector wordpress connectedrepublic…

links for 2007-11-23

edmittance’s bookmarks on del.icio.us Ed Mitchell’s shared bookmarks are a real treasure trove. Well worth subscribing to! (tags: del.icio.us edmitchell) Productivity tools Lee Hopkins on the software that helps him work. Some cool stuff here, including SnagIt! and Xilisoft Video…

Be More Productive with Web 2.0

Here’s a little presentation I have cobbled together to try and show what’s possible with a web browser these days. It certainly isn’t intended to be comprehensive, rather to give folk an idea of where they can go to start…

Firefox 3 Beta

Have downloaded and am using the FireFox 3 beta, partly out of interest but also because of the many problems I have been  having with version 2 since I switched to Vista. I’ve found myself having to reinstall FF on…

Google Maps API

I have had a really great idea for a little site that I think will be of use to quite a few people in the UK. Trouble is, it relies on using the Google Maps API, and I haven’t a…

links for 2007-11-22

Knowledge management Great article from CIO Insight on knowledge management and how it can be done successfully. Thanks to Lee Hopkins for the link. (tags: km knowledge management)

links for 2007-11-18

Three types of community Ed Mitchell on 3 types of community: centralised, decentralised and distributed. Interesting reading. (tags: communities edmitchell)

links for 2007-11-15

LGSearch | Google Groups I have set up a Google Group to act as a mailing list for LGSearch, the public sector personalised search engine I developed and occasionally maintain. (tags: lgsearch googlegroups) MT Community Solution: Blogs Meet Forums 2.0…

links for 2007-11-14

JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 Interesting collecion of academic articles from the “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”. Via Owen Blacker at MySociety. (tags: research socialnetworking academic web2.0 culture media)