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links for 2008-02-06

nptech-popokatea » home Laura Whitehead’s wiki full of excellent stuff (tags: wiki laura+whitehead) It’s Tech Weekly time again! | Technology | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian’s tech podcast features Beth Kanter! (tags: guardian nptech socialmedia beth+kanter)

Social Media Risks

One thing that came out of the recent barcamp for UK government types is that as much as those who really dig this stuff do their best to champion its use wherever possible, it really comes down to how senior…

Digital Curator

One of the interesting discussions at yesterday’s focus group meeting at Ruralnet was around the idea that by aggregating all the content that’s out there on rural issues, Ruralnet might end up overloading people with information. In other words, no…

links for 2008-02-05

Focus Group throughts | ruralnet|online My blog post on today’s focus group at Ruralnet, giving some possible ideas for future development. (tags: ruralnetonline ruralnet socialmedia) Love Life Live Lent 2 – Online Community The Church of England gets involved in…

Video upload weirdness

I have been trying to upload the screencast I did for Pageflakes onto blip.tv and YouTube so it’s a bit easier for people to access. Trouble is, I’m not having much luck with it. My screencasting package, BBFlashback, has produced…

links for 2008-02-04

Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet Google’s view on the MS/Yahoo! deal is remarkably myopic. (tags: google microsoft yahoo) POP! PR Jots: The Question of Community – by Jeremy Pepper Interesting notes on where community building,…

Two point oh? Or zero?

The BBC are coming up with guidance on how staff should pronounce the phrase “Web 2.0”. Is it, for example: Web two point oh Web two point zero Web two dot oh Web two etc etc etc… I have always…

My PageRank is 0!

Now, this is depressing news. Brace yourselves. I downloaded and installed the Google toolbar this evening, just so I could check the PageRank of my site. Yeah, I know there are third party sites out there that do the same…

Editing text on a Mac

John Naughton had a request from a friend for an alternative to MS Word on a Mac. John pointed him in the direction of TextEdit (Windows users, think WordPad), which comes built into OSX. One issue with this was the…