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Comment deletion

Steve Rubel asks why it is that not many blogging and other social media platforms allow commenters to edit or delete the comments they make on community based sites. Everyone sticks their foot in it from time to time. If…

Google and Attention

Great post by Sam Sethi at Vecosys on Google and attention: For the last two years I have been tracking a terminology called attention metadata. About 12 months ago some friends and I became really excited about the possibilities of…

Amazon launches Amapedia

Amazon have launched a new site, Amapedia, which is a wiki for products. Nice idea. Effectively, it gives people a chance to write about the stuff they like which can be bought from Amazon. I guess that means writing about…

If British politics is bad…

…then imagine how bad things are in the states. From The Guardian: The Democratic senator, Barack Obama, has launched an aggressive counter-attack against rumours that he is a Muslim and was educated at a madrasa in Indonesia…Mr Obama’s spokesman said…

Need a Web 2.0 Name?

The Web 2.0 Company Name Generator is a cool and amusing little site. As the site says: Need a name for your Web 2.0 company? Try this handy name generator. Here’s some that I got: ZoomworksBuzzfishFlashdogThoughttuneQuambeeFlashcatNpathSkambaChatterpulseQuimia That last one is…

Link posts

Since the death of the previous blog, I cancelled the regular posting of my daily del.icio.us links. When I set it up I thought it would be an interesting reminder for me of the stuff I thought was worth reading,…

LGSearch Stats

Google’s Coop cusomised search engine now provides usage statistics. This is undoubtably a Good Thing. My customised search engine is LGSearch, one which searches local government websites. Sounds dull, but when you work for in local government, it’s useful. Obviously…

Google Coop Stats

Google’s Coop cusomised search engine now provides usage statistics. This is undoubtably a Good Thing. My customised search engine is LGSearch, one which searches local government websites. Sounds dull, but when you work for in local government, it’s useful. Obviously…

Essential Blogger Tools

Via the 901am blog, I came across a post on Kineda outlining the tools every blogger should have: You’ve started your blog and you’re up and running, but do you have the essential tools necessary to be a blogging pro?…