Cluetrain on slides

Thanks to Lee Hopkins for pointing this out, it’s Doc Searls’ slideshow version of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Excellent quick reading. [slideshare 28722 cluetrain-28722]

Public Sector Social Media Meet

Members of the Community of Practice for Social Media and Online Collaboration are meeting up at the Learning and Skills Council National Office in Coventry on 26th February 2008 between 10am and 3.30pm for a day of Web 2.0 fun…

The University of Wikipedia

Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK reports on a University tutor banning her students from researching essays on the web: The education world has pursued new technology with an almost evangelical zeal and it is time to take a step back…

Replacing Notepad

Notepad, as I am sure everyone knows, is a text editor that comes free with Windows. It’s very, very basic, but that’s part of its charm. I use it quite a lot, for quickly editing HTML or PHP pages, or…

Use Google CSE on your blog

Google’s customised search engine service is really cool, useful and dead easy to use. It’s what I used to create LGSearch, which is one of the most successful bits of online work I have done. What Google CSE does is…

A social media software toolkit

Being a blogger is about far more than just words. To that end, you need tools which you feel comfortable with to enable you to create in any number of different media. Here’s some of the software I use to…

A thought on spam

Just a thought… If one runs a blog or online forum about erectile dysfunction and the use of viagra to combat that – how do you decide what is and isn’t spam? A hypothetical thought, of course!

Creative Connectivity

I’m talking at Creative Connectivity – a conference being organised by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Support Centre, which is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee – on the subject of the risks and opportunities presented by Web 2.0…

Regeneration

Am currently reading Pat Barker’s Regeneration, all about Siegdried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and other fictional soldiers recovering at Craiglockhart War Hospital during WW1. I must admit to, shamefully, not knowing an awful lot about the ‘great’ war before reading Oxford…

barcampukgovweb Search

While I was in the customised search mood, I thought it might be useful to have one for the upcoming barcampukgovweb. Click the logo below to jump to it.