Dave

I’ve been playing around a little more with Google Coop, and discovered that you can use wildcards when defining the sites you want to search. The way the standard LGSearch works is that I provide Google with a list of…

This is nice, via Neville Hobson: ‘Social media’ is the term commonly given to websites and online tools which allow users to interact with each other in some way – by sharing information, opinions, knowledge and interests. As the name…

This is nice, via Neville Hobson: ‘Social media’ is the term commonly given to websites and online tools which allow users to interact with each other in some way – by sharing information, opinions, knowledge and interests. As the name…

Welcome to my wordpress.com blog! I’ve basically decided to cut right down on my web expenditure. Having the vebrig.gs domain was fun, but the renewal was going to cost £35, and the bill for my hosting is due next month…

I’m a Second Life sceptic. Plenty of other people are too, like the author of this Valleywag piece. Interesting stuff in the comments, too. So what accounts for the current press interest in Second Life? I have a few ideas,…

…in Second Life. The Manchester Evening News reports: MANCHESTER is set to open a virtual version of itself in the internet simulation game Second Life… The aim is to promote the Manchester `brand’ and raise awareness of the city in…

Here’s the first LGNewMedia podcast. It’s the first in a short series about some of the great social media and Web2.0 tools that are available. This first one is about WordPress. I hope you enjoy it – please leave a…

You might wonder why I haven’t put education sites into LGSearch. Well, the reason is that someone else already has done, and I’m not in the business of thunder stealing. The new links page at LGSearch reveals all. At the…

The ‘slicing’ of the RSS feeds is now working, so now only 10 items per feed are displayed. I had only tested the layout in FireFox at the weekend, and having now tested it in IE 5.5 the feeds carry…

The latest development to LGSearch is LGSearch+ – which is simply a different search page, but with the latest news from the IDeA, The Guardian‘s ‘Society’ section, the latest links from Info4Local and the Local Government Association‘s news. These are…

Robert Scoble asks ‘What is social media?’ Stowe Boyd answers: Social Media Is Not A Broadcast Medium: unlike traditional publishing — either online or off — social media are not organized around a one-to-many communications model. Social Media Is Many-To-Many:…

Am not surprised at all about the impact Henrik Larsson has had at Man Utd since joining. You can’t help but feel it was a shame that he spent so much of his footballing life in the backwater that is…

[youtube 6gmP4nk0EOE] This is a great video on YouTube by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University. I’ve seen it linked to in lots of places, but my main reason for repeating it here was to test the use of the…

I have had a few comments in the 2,000 odd Bloggers post requesting that links to their blogs are removed. These seems to be for two main reasons: The bloggers never asked to be involved in the project (as, incidentally,…

Having added the various sets of new links to LGSearch, aside from keeping the list of links up-to-date, I think LGSearch is pretty much fully developed with what’s available from Google Coop right now. I still wonder, though, whether there…

The BBC points out a new site the Liberal Democrats have set up to discuss their manifesto for the next election. MP Steve Webb, running the web-based project, said it would help frame “detailed policy”, but that the party would…

The BBC points out a new site the Liberal Democrats have set up to discuss their manifesto for the next election. MP Steve Webb, running the web-based project, said it would help frame “detailed policy”, but that the party would…

Nice article on the BBC website about Jason Lee, the ex-pineapple headed ex-Forest striker. At 24 years of age, Jason Lee was living the dream of every professional footballer. The year was 1995, Lee was plying his trade with Nottingham…

ClickInfluence is Nick Wilson’s new venture. It looks good, and I’m subscribed. He links to an interesting document on community design by one Patrick Duparcq of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Yep, a stackload of more sites have been added to LGSearch, making it a very useful thing indeed. The sites added come under the labels: Police and Fire Health LG Related And as with the Councils and Central Government sites,…