Three types of community Ed Mitchell on 3 types of community: centralised, decentralised and distributed. Interesting reading. (tags: communities edmitchell)

LGSearch | Google Groups I have set up a Google Group to act as a mailing list for LGSearch, the public sector personalised search engine I developed and occasionally maintain. (tags: lgsearch googlegroups) MT Community Solution: Blogs Meet Forums 2.0…

JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 Interesting collecion of academic articles from the “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”. Via Owen Blacker at MySociety. (tags: research socialnetworking academic web2.0 culture media)

CommentPress CommentPress is a WordPress theme that allows commenters to record their views against individual paragrahs of a post, thus making it a live consultation document. Thanks to Simon Dickson for pointing it out. (tags: wordpress collaboration blog comments blogging…

It’s stunning, powerful and elegant… so set the iPhone free John Naughton’s Observer column on Apple’s iPhone (tags: iphone naughton observer apple) Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. Jing is a service that allows you to create…

Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! Stephen Fry on the iPhone: “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the…

Alex King: ShareThis 2.0 New version of the great Share This plugin for WordPress (amongst other platforms). It allows users to send links to their favourite social network or bookmarking site; or indeed to email or IM them to friends.…

Tangler Tangler is a host of discussion forums with a difference – it acts more like an instant messaging platform than a traditional forum. Looks a cool way of getting discussion groups together quickly. (tags: web2.0 community collaboration chat forum…

HiveLive’s Social Networking Platform Puts Users in Control HiveLive is another service to use to create your own social network. Very useful for creating niche or sector specific online communities. There are a growing number of these available, keeping a…

Seth Godin has put a Squidoo lens together on writing ebooks. It contains some excellent advice: Write something worth reading! Put it into Word or a similar word processor. Change your page layout to wide. Even better, change your page…