Is Europe a country?
Mmm. Stupid Americans. Mmmm. [youtube:] Hat tip to Dave Winer.
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Anonymity part 3
John Naughton: …the Guardian has a policy of allowing people to post comments anonymously, which IMHO is a good way of encouraging people to behave badly, because they don’t have to take responsibility for their views. I’ve always thought that…
Planning trips, 2.0
We’re off for a trip next week, to Cornwall for a few days. There may well be some light blogging ahead. Anyway, we are trying to cram in as much stuff as we can, and make the best use of…
links for 2008-02-16
CiviCRM CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. (tags: crm opensource drupal cms joomla software management…
Trust in Web 2.0
Danah Boyd writes a post about a rather worrying occurence: a friend who had their Google account taken away from them: Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make…
William Shaw on Scientology
William Shaw is a great writer, and a great guy. He’s written a number of non-fiction titles, mainly on counter-cultural issues and is now doing some exciting stuff with social media, looking into stuff like uses the blog format to…
The value of online communities
Jeremiah Owyang posts about a report he has written for Forrester. The executive summary is all we really need: To host a successful community, think of it as you would product development: Start by focusing on objectives, chart a road…
8 tips for beginner bloggers
I have been thinking quite a bit recently about what people need to do before they start a blog. I know that one should say that blogging doesn’t necessarily suit everybody, but, to be honest, if there is novel in…
links for 2008-02-14
My Top 10 Essential Drupal Modules Steve Purkiss lists his favourite plugins for Drupal – some good stuff here. (tags: drupal modules)
Government offline
The Economist has published an interesting article on “Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fails”: Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits?…