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Ning and Porn

Ning founder Marc Andreessen has posted a response to the discussions about the fact that quite a bit of Ning’s traffic is as a result of ‘adult’ communities. Ning, remember, is the service that allows you to create your own…

links for 2008-01-06

Lunch_with_Maxwell.pdf (application/pdf Object) Piece by John Naughton on attending a function thrown by Robert Maxwell. Fascinating reading. (tags: robert+maxwell john+naughton) BarCamp wiki / BarCampPOIR8 The event follows the decision to launch a web-based channel as recommended by the Power of…

Swinging

Swinging Originally uploaded by DavePress Ben didn’t want to go on the big slide thing at Fermyn Woods today, so I felt the need to uphold the Briggs family honour. I think I did so well.

links for 2008-01-05

Asylum Great book review blog. (tags: books reviews blog) These Glory Days Excellent, thoughtful film review blog (tags: film movie review blog) Flipping the Linux switch: 5 tips every new Linux user should know – Download Squad Cool tips and…

Organising my feeds

I recently undertook the task of organising all my feeds into folders in FeedDemon – before this I had just the one (very) long list of sites I checked, not broken up in any way. This had become unmanageable. So,…

Building Online Communities with Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management system which is fully extensible through a huge range of community developed modules. It’s the system which powers the demo site I put together for The Information Authority last year, and it is…

links for 2008-01-04

Free Music Zilla: Free Music Downloader Freemusiczilla is desktop based software that basically lets you download any song you can stream on the Internet. (tags: music download mp3 free tools freeware software radio) Global Neighbourhoods: SAP Global Survey: Australia’s Lee…

Seariki

Seariki (a conflation of search and wiki) is a new China based search engine which provides a way of finding information in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia search itself can be slightly frustrating, in that if it can find an exact match…

Wikis – which is best?

Well, it’s a question. Wikis are funny things, and building communities around them can be quite tricky (although advice like this helps). More than any other types of website, wikis demand community interaction, indeed, they are nothing without it. There…

Interview with Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is the editor of TechCrunch UK, and keeps his eye on the new tech startups in this country and across Europe. Here he is interviewed by Robert Scoble. Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be…