When someone is trying to make conversation, it’s rude to ignore them Ross Ferguson on DIUS’ attempts at effective online consultation. (tags: DIUS consultation ross+ferguson) Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion; Open Source Is A Legitimate Business Model Massive…

Using Social Media To Create Social Media Training – Social Media Training “This site explores social media training and provides a resource for those looking to evangelize social media in their organizations.” (tags: socialmedia wiki training web2.0) Fleet Street PR:…

Tips on microphones and related podcast questions : NevilleHobson.com Podcasting tips from Neville Hobson. Very useful! (tags: podcasting, neville+hobson) Next Neville Hobson’s new tech blog. Worth a subscription, folks! (tags: neville+hobson blog wordpress) Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote Speech Leaked…

Twenty-four Matt Mullenweg is only 24. BASTARD. (tags: wordpress mullenweg young+successful+bastards) SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the ports begin… Great! The original version of Sim City (and my favourite) has had its code released under open source…

Sharpfolio: WordPress Portfolio Theme — WebRevolutionary Nice wordpress theme (tags: wordpress theme) Why Use a Desktop RSS Reader? Nick Bradbury argues the case for desktop based RSS readers like his very own FeedDemon. I think he’s right. (tags: article comparison…

Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond – ReadWriteWeb Interesting arguments. (tags: socialmedia web2.0 social collaboration blogging socialnetworking) Bloke finds missus working in brothel | The Register Oh my lord. (tags: brothel shock! horror!)

Allardyce reign ends at Newcastle Absolute madness. (tags: football) Getting started with video Neville Hobson provides some great links and advice for getting video online. Something I am particularly interested in at the moment. (tags: video socialmedia) Oxford Internet Institute…

Big Think – We Are What You Think The thinking man (or woman)’s YouTube. (tags: video ideas politics academic) Search Wikia: Not Even A Remote Threat To Google SearchEngineLand’s take on Search Wikia (tags: search wikia searchengineland) ReadBurner | Public…

Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown. Michael Arrington trashes the alpha launch of Wikia Search, the ‘human powered search engine’. (tags: search wikia) Wikia Search – Miles Behind the Competition Mashable’s view on Wikia Search (tags: google mahalo search wikia)…

Why Facebook wants to corner the market in personal info John Naughton on the Scoble/Facebook kerfuffle. (tags: observer scoble socialnetworking socialnetworks facebook plaxo) How Techmeme Homepage Changes Over Time – Video This Techmeme video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme…

Lunch_with_Maxwell.pdf (application/pdf Object) Piece by John Naughton on attending a function thrown by Robert Maxwell. Fascinating reading. (tags: robert+maxwell john+naughton) BarCamp wiki / BarCampPOIR8 The event follows the decision to launch a web-based channel as recommended by the Power of…

Asylum Great book review blog. (tags: books reviews blog) These Glory Days Excellent, thoughtful film review blog (tags: film movie review blog) Flipping the Linux switch: 5 tips every new Linux user should know – Download Squad Cool tips and…

Free Music Zilla: Free Music Downloader Freemusiczilla is desktop based software that basically lets you download any song you can stream on the Internet. (tags: music download mp3 free tools freeware software radio) Global Neighbourhoods: SAP Global Survey: Australia’s Lee…

WordPress powers Brazilian ministry Simon Dickson points to another use of WordPress within government. It’s such a quick and easy, yet powerful way, of putting together a sophisticated web presence. (tags: wordpress simondickson)

It’s your business « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger Robert Scoble gives us the background to his future career plans. Is this any of our business? Perhaps the fact that TechCrunch leaked it in the middle of LeWeb3 makes it…

Knives and restaurants Euan MacIntosh’s take on Jimmy Wales’ grear metaphor on how freeing people’s use of the web is like letting folk use knives in restaurants. (tags: jimmywales wikia wikipedia freeweb)

A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic Richard MacManus on the various sites out there for diabetics. I’ve been looking for similar stuff as a relatively recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic myself. (tags: web2.0 diabetes) BBC,…

KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion! This service allows you to download videos from streaming sites like YouTube to your computer, meaning that you can embed them in other media, like Powerpoint presentations for example. Useful!…

Contact | The Connected Republic “This site was set up with aim of creating a community of innovators interested in the scope for transforming the public sector.” Looks good, and WordPress based. Via Jeremy Gould. (tags: community publicsector wordpress connectedrepublic…