Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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Got an iPhone? Get AudioBoo

Neville writes about the latest service from Best Before – the guys behind the awesome turn-your-macbook-into-a-videobooth service Videoboo – which is Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish the recordings to your…

OpenGov

Mitch Sava of PolyWonk emailed me the other day with details of a really interesting event he is putting together with Simon Grice of Ideas.org, called OpenGov. Taking place in London on 22nd April 2009, OpenGov will be a practical…

Help Al survive for charity

My good friend Al Kitching writes a damn fine film review blog. He’s also doing something silly for charity: I’m being dropped into an “as yet undisclosed wilderness location” for five days of survival and adventure. The event will contain…

Event reporting toolkit

David has written about covering events again as part of his investigation of the role of the social reporter. He writes: So on the one hand it is more difficult to charge for the logistics, and on the other hand…

On non-professionalism

David’s blog post reminded me that I have been banging on to a lot of people about some vague idea which I’ve been calling ‘non-professionalism’. Basically, non-professionalism is the culture required to work effectively on the social web. If you…

Bookmarks for March 8th through March 14th

Stuff I have bookmarked for March 8th through March 14th: James Harkin on why gregarious online communities are a myth – Potentially interesting piece that turns out to be bereft of any kind of substance. Shame. How is this thing…

Keeping it in the family

I’ve just found out that my sister is on Twitter. Do say hello to her – I’m sure that as a press officer for a big charity, she’d love to hear how they can be using Twitter and other services…

Bookmarks for March 4th through March 8th

Stuff I have bookmarked for March 4th through March 8th: Finding a political navigator – Neville's thoughtful view on the Director of Digital Engagement post. How to open source your stuff at Helpful Technology – Steph on sharing your code…

Cheltenham go for search

I wrote a little while ago about how council’s websites might look, and ventured the idea that perhaps all that is needed is a big search box. Look what Cheltenham Borough Council have got now! OK, so it isn’t the…

Open source gov

Last week, the Cabinet Office published a new action plan for government and open source, to level the playing field when it comes to procuring software. So we consider that the time is now right to build on our record…

Bookmarks for February 26th through March 3rd

Stuff I have bookmarked for February 26th through March 3rd: Getting Started: gadgets.* API – Gadgets – Google Code – Via @lesteph – create Google Gadgets to go on things like iGoogle pages. The Times & CUNY (and others) go…

It isn’t just government…

…that is struggling with some of this stuff. Take a look at Phil Bradley’s marvellous post, railing against the attitudes of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals): The next section really did make my jaw drop. “In…

Remind us of your views, again?

I wrote a little while back about a fairly terrible website being used by Cambridgeshire’s Transport Commission to consult people on their views. Cambridge News now reports: A PROBE into Cambridgeshire’s transport crisis – including the idea of a congestion…