An online notebook
The Birmingham Bloggers meet last night went well, with a good turnout and some exceptionally high-quality discussions on a variety of topics. I found myself burning up with jealously a couple of times as people talked about the exciting projects they were working on. Jon Bounds has a nice little write-up. Nick was an absolute … Keep reading
Simon Dickson muses on the advantages of using open source platforms, as opposed to proprietary ones, in the light of the Interesource debacle. It’s funny. Not so long ago, the question was ‘why should I be using open source?’ Increasingly, I’m left wondering why anyone would use anything other than open source. True. As Simon … Keep reading
Steve Rubel has posted about "The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging". Somewhere circa 2006 the tech blogger mindset shifted – at least among the majority. People who used to work hard creating and spreading big ideas resorted to simply regurgitating the same old news over and over again, often with very little value … Keep reading
Wow. The post I wrote this morning on my ITunes problem has already been republished by a splogger. They work fast, these guys. And at least they linked back to here 😉
Well, I was successful in my interview. So, from sometime in October, I will be a Change Manager at the Information Authority. My role is going to be a really exciting one: Establishing, supporting and maintaining communities of providers and data users to support the development and management of information and data standards for the … Keep reading