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An online notebook
Nice, longish essay in the LRB this issue, by Theo Tait on Gordon Burn’s Born Yesterday which I have written about now and again. A more unified and organised book would have excluded many of Born Yesterday’s highlights: the brilliant…
I always like reading Andrew Brown‘s roundups of stuff that’s happening in his area – Lewisham – that he regularly posts to his blog. I haven’t the discipline to do anything regularly, but here are a couple of things I’ve…
Twitter this evening is rife with talk about Plurk, a new micro-blogging service that brings a whole new meaning to the term feature-creep. I’m here. I mean, the joy of Twitter, and I suspect the reason why we all stick…
I’ve loved Cat Man Do, the first of the ‘Simon’s Cat’ animations since I first saw it. It’s drawn by Simon Tofield of Tandem Films and since discovering his Youtube page, I’ve found the second in the series – ‘Let…
Mike Butcher lays into the BBC over web innovation: I think the BBC should do more, a LOT more, to hook into the innovation happening in technology companies in the private sector, and at the same time allowing private sector…
John Hayes, a Director at the Improvement & Development Agency, has started a blog – and started it really promisingly, too: So, having taking my own personal plunge into this Web 2 pool with this my first blog, I’m hoping…
Shane McCracken was sufficiently interested in the social reporting that David Wilcox and I undertook at the DC10plus event early last month that he started to develop a business model around it, dubbing it ConferenceXtra. The concept is that it’s…
ICELE and how out-of-touch Gordon is with egov Paul Canning’s view on the ICELE business. (tags: ICELE slashgov lgedem localgovuk edemocracy egov) KnowMore Firefox Extension – Knowmore.org A firefox extension that helps you to shop ethically online. Hat tip: Tim…
Have come across some interesting bits and pieces recently on the topic of how local government should be using the social web to better communicate and collaborate – exactly the sort of thing we are trying to promote on the…
Hmmm. So FeedBurner is going to start allowing folk to embed Adsense in their RSS feeds. I don’t like ads on blogs much, I have to say, and getting content through RSS usually lets you avoid them. I really don’t…