Dave

Dave

Themes

Am playing around with the theme of this blog at the moment – sorry for any irritation caused!

Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is…

Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is…

Open Source Politics

Great article from David Wilcox: Does it matter whether politicians who talk up the Internet’s potential for re-inventing politics, education, employment actually use it hands-on for the purposes they present, and join in? Or should we just be grateful if…

Ning

Ning is a great platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own site to which people can sign up and leave blog posts, have forum discussions, upload photos and videos and…

Is Search Broken?

Tom Foremski over at Silicon Vallery Watcher points out the things that annoy him about search: – There are many publishers that try to make sure their headlines catch the attention of the search engines rather than catch the attention…

Feedable

  Feedable is a nice online news aggregator. As well as having your own feeds, it also provides information on hot topics of conversation in a variety of subjects. Thanks to Steve Rubel for pointing it out. Tags: feedable, steve+rubel

FeedDemon/Newsgator Problem

Hmmm. FeedDemon has starting playing up all of a sudden. It claimed not to be able to connect to my NewsGator account a couple of times, despite the credentials being correct, and refused to do anything. So, I removed the…

Screencasting

Thanks to Steve Dale for pointing me in the direction of Blueberry Software and their BB Flashback range of screencasting tools. Steve has just finished a screencast of the IDeA’s Communities of Practice platform using the full blown version of…