Scribd

Scribd is a cool service which acts as a YouTube for documents. To quote their FAQs: Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser. There … Keep reading

Every way up

Euan Semple on the advantages of social media for everyone: What I find interesting is that some people leap to the conclusion (both for and against) that social computing in business is bottom up. It isn’t. It is potentially as liberating for the middle and the top as it is for anyone else. How many … Keep reading

Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is as micro-blogging. You can only write posts of 140 characters or less. Hardly the medium … Keep reading

Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is as micro-blogging. You can only write posts of 140 characters or less. Hardly the medium … Keep reading

Open Source Politics

Great article from David Wilcox: Does it matter whether politicians who talk up the Internet’s potential for re-inventing politics, education, employment actually use it hands-on for the purposes they present, and join in? Or should we just be grateful if they have a good script from their researchers, have met the right people, and can … Keep reading