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dria.org » Blog Archive » Field Guide to Firefox 3 Everything you need to know about the new version of everyone’s favourite browser (tags: firefox firefox3 guide browser reference mozilla browsers howto) Choose your words carefully, the blink media revolution…
A bit of a dig about reveals that Stratford isn’t the only local authority on Twitter… There’s also: St Helens Southend Barnet Hillingdon Anyone know any others?
I’m delighted to note that Stratford-on-Avon District Council has its own account on Twitter. What is even better is that they display the badge on their homepage! This is just the sort of intiative that we’re looking for in various…
downingstreet – FriendFeed The Prime Minister is on FriendFeed! (tags: friendfeed primeminister number10 gordonbrown) Power of Information Task Force The PoI taskforce have a blog. Quite right too. Thanks to Shane for the pointer. (tags: government powerofinformation blogging)
I’m reading the marvellous The Atlantic Ocean by Andrew O’Hagan at the moment. It’s a collection of essays, mostly taken from The London Review of Books and is a wonderful eclectic collection of writing. Take this little gem, for example,…
PicLens | Immersive Views Across the Web PicLens transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing photos and videos across the web. Via John Naughton. (tags: apple extension plugin firefox photo video) Peter Willby on The Times newspaper…
I’ve been after a decent audio recorder for a while, and on the recommendations of Neville Hobson, who regularly blogs about such matters, I opted for an M-Audio MicroTrack 2. And very nice it is too. I’m still waiting to…
David Wilcox pointed me in the direction of the latest E-Government newsletter from Headstar, and their article about ICELE’s slow and rather painful death: In the medium term, the government is considering an overhaul of e-democracy policy which could bring…
The Five Questions Companies Ask About Social Media Great post from Jeremiah Owyang, thanks to Neville Hobson for the link (tags: blog business collaboration socialmedia research tips) paulcanning: Off with the pixies Paul’s typically vituperative take on Minister for the…
Following some of the points made on my post about Kubuntu and Linux yesterday, I’ve been wondering a bit more about free software and how it might help people make the most of their equipment. After all, software is expensive…
For the first time in maybe more than ten years, I don’t have a machine running Windows in my possession. Last week, my Vista-running Acer laptop stopped working. Windows just wouldn’t load. It gave me a load of options to…
Georgina Henry: Welcome to the new Comment is free The Guardian’s Comment and blogging space has had a revamp. (tags: guardian commentisfree blogging politics media news journalism networkedjournalism)
The UK Catalyst Awards are BERR and NESTA sponsored initiative which aims to: recognise everyday heroes who use technology to make a positive impact on the world around them. What’s more, you could get support to take your idea further…
I’ve had my attention brought to the Thirty Day Challenge, a free month long online course on internet direct marketing. Now, it’s not a subject I am particularly interested in, but I am interested in how the information is disseminated…
Is Twitter Down? Does what it says on the, er, title bar (tags: twitter funny humor web2.0 mashup check internet down)
A little while ago I posted about a little survey I had set up using Google Docs, which aimed to find out about what browsers public sector folk are using, and what problems they have been running into as a…
Nice, longish essay in the LRB this issue, by Theo Tait on Gordon Burn’s Born Yesterday which I have written about now and again. A more unified and organised book would have excluded many of Born Yesterday’s highlights: the brilliant…
I always like reading Andrew Brown‘s roundups of stuff that’s happening in his area – Lewisham – that he regularly posts to his blog. I haven’t the discipline to do anything regularly, but here are a couple of things I’ve…
Twitter this evening is rife with talk about Plurk, a new micro-blogging service that brings a whole new meaning to the term feature-creep. I’m here. I mean, the joy of Twitter, and I suspect the reason why we all stick…
I’ve loved Cat Man Do, the first of the ‘Simon’s Cat’ animations since I first saw it. It’s drawn by Simon Tofield of Tandem Films and since discovering his Youtube page, I’ve found the second in the series – ‘Let…