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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?…

the interruption

I’ve started a podcast! the interruption is going to be a weekly chat between me and someone doing something exciting in social media and web 2.0 in the UK. The first episode is a discussion with Paul Johnston of Cisco,…

links for 2008-02-13

How to Get Top Blogs to Notice You Chris Garrett on how to get the attention of other bloggers (tags: blogging)

links for 2008-02-12

WordPress Development Updates wpdevel.wordpress.com is a new Prologue-themed blog that will follow the release of WordPress 2.5 through frequent updates from various WordPress developers (tags: wordpress) A deep look to Firefox 3 Beta 3 : Mozilla Links Firefox 3 B3…

More on anonymous posting

Of course, in my earlier discussion about why anonymous posting is generally speaking a Bad Thing, I forgot to mention the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory: Sums it up perfectly for me.