Dave

Dave

Making Search Humane

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…

LibDems launch Manifesto Conversation

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…

LibDems launch Manifesto Conversation

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…

Jason Lee

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

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.

Health, Police, Fire and More!

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,…

Central Government added to LGSearch

The first major update has been made to LGSearch, the now-inaccurately described local government search engine. The sites for central government departments have now been added. You can find a list of the sites included on the LGSearch project page…

Updates

I’ve changed things around quite a bit on this blog, partly in an attempt to force myself to update it a little more often. I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, 2.1, which does various things in a much…

RSS habits

From Google Reader’s trends feature: From your 238 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,827 items, starred 0 items, and shared 56 items And I had the weekend off entirely… I try to remember to share the stuff…

England 0 – 1 Spain

When, oh when, will Steve McClaren, or whoever else is managing England, learn? Square pegs, round holes. Square pegs, round holes. Square pegs, ro… you get the picture. Picking Ben Foster and Jonathan Woodgate was good. Picking Phil Neville at…

CSS Irritation

The theme I am using on this site at the moment, Fjords01!, is beatiful. But for some reason the CSS makes italics (through the em tag) appear like this. Until I get round to changing the stylesheet, I am having…

Why I still read newspapers

Despite being an avid reader of RSS feeds – not just from blogs, but other sites like newspapers, and other new organisations – I still get a newspaper every day. I guess this runs somewhat contrary to the idea that…

Charlie Brooker on Macs

Charlie Brooker, TV reviewing god, has a pop at the ‘I’m a Mac’ ad campaign with his usual savagery: The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign – the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They…

A Million Penguins

Penguin, the publishers, have unleashed a cool idea: a novel written on a wiki. There’s a blog just for the project, too. Great that they are using open source tools: WordPress and MediaWiki. The main Penguin blog (Typepad, boo) notes…

Scoble and PayPerPost

Robert Scoble has enraged many in the blogosphere by accepting an invitation to speak to a conference organised and sponsored by PayPerPost – everyone’s most hated blog-related company. I know this conference will be controversial — one way to get…

Mac and PC

I really couldn’t think of a better pair than Mitchell and Webb to do the Mac and PC thing for the Apple adverts. Still, they’re a bit annoying. The ads, I mean, not Mitchell and Webb. All this stuff about…

Zoho Notebook

Zoho Notebook looks like yet another very cool web app – they don’t seem to be putting a step wrong at the moment. It’s in private alpha at the moment – Hopefully I will soon get in for a play…

Why I love WordPress 2.1

Visitors to my blog site, rather than just RSS readers, will have noticed a slight change on the right hand side of the site this evening – the archives and categories have just got a lot bigger! This is because…