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links for 2008-04-02
Another membership organisation gets it wrong | The Membership Project My notes on the Society of Authors’ concerns about online literary piracy (tags: society+of+authors membership+project piracy)
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
links for 2008-04-01
BuddyPress » A WordPress MU Based Social Network Platform BuddyPress has a nice looking new wordpress based site (tags: wordpress socialnetworking opensource buddypress) epractice.eu EU collaborative space for developing use of social computing for public services (tags: public tools web2.0…
Tracking conversations
Sounds like Fav.or.it is going to solve the issue of bringing my comments back to my blog, better than Co-comment does (which seems borked at the moment?). From Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK: Fav.or.it is tapping into some powerful ideas…
Power of Information Task Force
Tom Watson posted up his speech announcing the Power of Information Task Force on his blog yesterday and it contained some really good stuff. I guess that those who want to can snicker about the notion of creating a task…
Tuttling
I attended my first Tuttle Club on Friday morning, and it was well worth having a day off work and the train fare down to London, not least because I got to meet Neville Hobson in person, finally, after several…
Getting things into the open
David Wilcox has taken the bull by the horns and created an open thread on the OpenRSA blog calling for a more collaborative approach to the discussion on jounalism being carried out on the RSA networks platform. This debate is…
WordPress 2.5
Went live for download over the weekend. Will be having a look at it over the next day or so. Looks a great release, with some much needed improvements, including: Improved admin dashboard, which can now include widgets Multi-file uploads…
Why I love web 2.0
Part of the joys of the social web and the community that has built up around it is the sheer informality of the whole thing. Take this, for example: a tweet from Loic Le Meur, CEO of Seesmic this morning:…
Downing Street is on Twitter
And you can follow the rather dull news updates at Still, well done whoever got this going!
OurPress: websites for the rest of us
OurPress is a project I have been working on for aaaages, which stalled quite badly for a while. Essentially, the idea emerged in a discussion with Nick Booth in the comments of a blog post of his. We were talking…