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…

edmittance’s bookmarks on del.icio.us Ed Mitchell’s shared bookmarks are a real treasure trove. Well worth subscribing to! (tags: del.icio.us edmitchell) Productivity tools Lee Hopkins on the software that helps him work. Some cool stuff here, including SnagIt! and Xilisoft Video…

Knowledge management Great article from CIO Insight on knowledge management and how it can be done successfully. Thanks to Lee Hopkins for the link. (tags: km knowledge management)

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)