Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Blocks, barriers and doorstops! Innovation in the NHS ✚ Review: Writing Kit for iPad POINT BREAK: 16 points of the cluetrain manifesto comms people need to know Investment in Place and…

The brute force of money

David Weinberger on the purchase of Mendeley by Elsevier: I seriously have no interest in judging the Mendeley folks. I still like them, and who am I to judge? If someone offered me $45M (the minimum estimate that I’ve seen) for a…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: On IBM, OpenStack and Chef: an interview Intelligent Impact: Evaluating an open data capacity building with voluntary sector organisations WordPress.tv: Understanding the WordPress Dashboard Tony Hall’s biggest test as BBC director…

Outliners are cool!

Do you use an outliner? Have you even heard of them? An outline is a load of text, organised into a hierarchy. It looks like a bulleted list, with content at various levels, but proper ones do a bit more…

Anil Dash – The web we lost

Overall, I’m quite pleased with the response to this conversation about the web we lost because one of my central points is that the arrogance and insularity of the old-guard, conventional wisdom creators of social media, including myself, was one…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: How can local authorities achieve smart cities? Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Androids Designed Around People stop talking about jobs How to delete your digital life How to…

Permission taken

Well worth listening or watching this talk from Dan Gillmor: Once, personal technology and the Internet meant that we didn’t need permission to compute, communicate and innovate. Now, governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties, and creating an…