Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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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)

Big Juicy Twitter Guide

Caroline Middlebrook has produced a guide to Twitter – what it is and why we should all be using it. Great stuff. Thanks to Phil Bradley for the link – I hadn’t come across Caroline’s blog before but am now…

links for 2007-11-13

CommentPress CommentPress is a WordPress theme that allows commenters to record their views against individual paragrahs of a post, thus making it a live consultation document. Thanks to Simon Dickson for pointing it out. (tags: wordpress collaboration blog comments blogging…

links for 2007-11-12

It’s stunning, powerful and elegant… so set the iPhone free John Naughton’s Observer column on Apple’s iPhone (tags: iphone naughton observer apple) Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. Jing is a service that allows you to create…

links for 2007-11-11

Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! Stephen Fry on the iPhone: “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the…

Charlie Brooker: Agony Aunt

I love Charlie Brooker’s columns at The Guardian‘s Comment is Free site as much as I love his TV stuff. I’m just catching up on his posts after being offline for a while, and came across this gem: Years ago,…

links for 2007-11-10

Alex King: ShareThis 2.0 New version of the great Share This plugin for WordPress (amongst other platforms). It allows users to send links to their favourite social network or bookmarking site; or indeed to email or IM them to friends.…

Amping up WordPress

Quick presentation on improving a WordPress blog from Mark Jaquith: [slideshare 158924 amping-up-your-wordpress-blog-1194474703187376-3]