Use Google CSE on your blog
Google’s customised search engine service is really cool, useful and dead easy to use. It’s what I used to create LGSearch, which is one of the most successful bits of online work I have done. What Google CSE does is…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
links for 2008-01-14
Twenty-four Matt Mullenweg is only 24. BASTARD. (tags: wordpress mullenweg young+successful+bastards) SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the ports begin… Great! The original version of Sim City (and my favourite) has had its code released under open source…
A social media software toolkit
Being a blogger is about far more than just words. To that end, you need tools which you feel comfortable with to enable you to create in any number of different media. Here’s some of the software I use to…
A thought on spam
Just a thought… If one runs a blog or online forum about erectile dysfunction and the use of viagra to combat that – how do you decide what is and isn’t spam? A hypothetical thought, of course!
Creative Connectivity
I’m talking at Creative Connectivity – a conference being organised by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Support Centre, which is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee – on the subject of the risks and opportunities presented by Web 2.0…
Regeneration
Am currently reading Pat Barker’s Regeneration, all about Siegdried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and other fictional soldiers recovering at Craiglockhart War Hospital during WW1. I must admit to, shamefully, not knowing an awful lot about the ‘great’ war before reading Oxford…
links for 2008-01-12
Sharpfolio: WordPress Portfolio Theme — WebRevolutionary Nice wordpress theme (tags: wordpress theme) Why Use a Desktop RSS Reader? Nick Bradbury argues the case for desktop based RSS readers like his very own FeedDemon. I think he’s right. (tags: article comparison…
barcampukgovweb Search
While I was in the customised search mood, I thought it might be useful to have one for the upcoming barcampukgovweb. Click the logo below to jump to it.
Online collaboration does work
Despite now working in further education, I’m still involved in the predominantly local government based Communities of Practice social online collaboration platform, which is developed by the Improvement & Development Agency. For a quick run through of the whys, whats,…
Best British football ground…
…is of course the home of the mighty Reds, at least according to The Guardian: 1) The City Ground, 1935 – present Why on earth Nottingham Forest’s board want to move away from the City Ground is be££££££££££££££££££££££yond m£££££££££y k£££££££££££££££££££££en,…