Dave

Dave

John Darwin was found out via Google!

Heh. Social media can be used to fight crime. I didn’t realise, but the photo of John and Anne Darwin taken in Panama, was actually found via Google’s image search, on the website for the company they used to relocate.…

A thought…

…that’s occurred to me since being at Online Information last week. People still seem to be under the impression that having a forum on a website, whether internal or external, means you have a community. You don’t. A community needs…

Blogging in Plain English

Another super video explaining blogs – soon the Common Craft guys will have covered the whole of Web 2.0! [youtube:] I wonder just how much paid work has come their way since they started doing these free tutorials? Quite a…

links for 2007-12-06

Knives and restaurants Euan MacIntosh’s take on Jimmy Wales’ grear metaphor on how freeing people’s use of the web is like letting folk use knives in restaurants. (tags: jimmywales wikia wikipedia freeweb)

Online Information 2007

Light blogging ahead as I am going to be at the Online Information conference this week. I won’t be taking my laptop with me, but will be twittering my thoughts via my Palm, so do check that out.

links for 2007-11-28

A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic Richard MacManus on the various sites out there for diabetics. I’ve been looking for similar stuff as a relatively recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic myself. (tags: web2.0 diabetes) BBC,…

links for 2007-11-27

KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion! This service allows you to download videos from streaming sites like YouTube to your computer, meaning that you can embed them in other media, like Powerpoint presentations for example. Useful!…