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Bookmarks for September 8th
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 8th: Socialreporter | Organise social reporters? Up to a point. – Great post and discussion on David Wilcox's blog
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Digital dialogues third report
Am very late in writing about this, but am only just getting round to reading the third report produced by the Digital Dialogues project. This bit, from the Guidance and Recommendations section, is very nicely put: From our research we…
Bookmarks for September 7th
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 7th: Beckenham Residents – Local action in Beckenham via a Ning social network site. Hat tip @lesteph
Local community networks with Ning
I’ve always been a little uncertain of Ning, the service that allows you to create your own social networks. I’m not sure why: possibly a comination of them looking rather samey (certainly in the early days), and being – to…
CivicSurf video now online
Shane has posted at CivicSurf the two parts of the online video version of the CivicSurf video, which I have included below, too. Why not email and ask for some actual DVDs you could show to your local councillors? [HTML1]…
Bookmarks for September 4th
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 4th: paulcanning: How not to do video about recycling – Great notes from Paul on how local gov can make their video go viral (ie get people to actually watch it)
Communicosm
A short while ago, I wrote a little piece about a possible idea to enter into the Building Democracy competition, which was to create a social ‘directory’ of online community groups. I put directory in inverted comments because that isn’t…
Create your own Firefox search plugin
The search box on the FireFox toolbar is a pretty useful thing, giving you quick access to various search engines and other sites, like Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia. It’s based on a Mozilla project called Mycroft (that being the name…
Bookmarks for September 2nd through September 3rd
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd through September 3rd: Mantis Bug Tracker – Bug tracker built in PHP Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face – Hosted subversion, via @lesteph Website Improvements and New Features – Your Archives…
Bookmarks for September 2nd
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd: Obama’s Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them | Linux Journal – "The man has means for e-governance already in place. And geeks are the ones who put it there. And will continue to…