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There’s not long left of 2008 now. It’s been one of the most remarkable years of my life. I started it living in Mawsley, near Kettering, which I and my family hated. We then moved to Broughton, also near Kettering,…
Or maybe just stuff I’d like to get round to doing in 2009… Get more collaborative: I’d like to spend more time working with other people, and I’m hoping that in 2009 there will be plenty of opportunities for this…
Twitterhack is a new blog I have started. And it’s horrible. I hate ads on blogs, and this one has lots of them. It even has ads in the RSS, and the RSS isn’t even full text! Here’s why…
I hadn’t really had a chance to have a proper play with FriendConnect before today. It’s basically a Google service that lets you add social functionality to your website, based on the OpenSocial framework. This means that if you have…
From Rich Millington: A moderator keeps things normal. A moderator removes the extremes from the community. Moderating isn’t as hard as moderators would have you believe. You can typically find community members to do it. A facilitator makes it easier…
Our Minister for Digital Engagement’s blog has a stark message: Globalisation in a connected world did for Woolies. When my son is a teenager, his friends will arrange to meet online and share their music tastes before pressing the ‘buy’…
Photo credit: Greenboy Great post by Steph on comments, community and moderation: …as more people start to see the web as place for self-expression in their own spaces and other people’s, hearing the interesting voices in the crowd is only…
Photo credit: Ravages I’ve seen some interesting stuff pop up in my RSS over the last few days – here’s some of them: Shel Holtz has a really interesting post about using Ning as a communication and collaboration platform for…
I’ve just moved the comments on this blog to the IntenseDebate system. It adds quite a bit of functionality to the comments, including threaded discussions (which are part of the new version 2.7 of WP, but I haven’t upgraded just…
The Guardian reports that the Conservative Party have unearthed that the spending by the various arms of the UK government on ‘media monitoring’ – ie finding out what people are saying about them – reached the sum of £16 million…
After my posting on WordPress for Good, this page was brought to my attention. It states that: For various reasons related to our WordPress trademark, we ask if you’re going to start a site about WordPress or related to it…
As I mentioned earlier, I am going to be running some workshops at the Social Media Exchange, organised by Sound Delivery next month on the topic of ‘WordPress for good’. The aim of the sessions will be to demonstrate how…
I wouldn’t be so foolish as to try and make some prediction for 2009, as they would be bound to turn out to be hideously wrong within a very short space of time. However, I feel a little safer writing…
The upcoming Barcamp for UK government webby stuff now has a social network, thanks to Ning! In many ways, this is a copycat …err… following good practice attempt after the excellent network set up by Tim Davies for the UK…
Tom Watson reports via Twitter that MySociety’s FixMyStreet is now embedded in DirectGov. On the page in question, a boxout gives you the option of reporting a problem via FixMyStreet rather than through the usual route of DirectGov linking you…
Paul Canning points us to some remarkably good stuff from government web folk from across the pond in the States: a white paper called Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government. Paul writes: That such a document could exist is solely…
Here are the notes I mananged to make at CloudCamb, which was organised jolly well by Matt Wood (MZA on twitter). Simone Brunozzi, Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services (simon on twitter) Cloud computing helps answer the ‘prediction problem’ – knowing…
The Social Media Exchange is an event being organised by Jude Habib of Sound Delivery, and is happening on 26 January at the Resource Centre on Holloway Road in London. You can find out more by downloading this PDF. According…
RSS is a great technology, one of those that underpins the new usefulness of the web. It’s a simple way of keeping in touch with what is happening in lots of different places, without having to keep visiting lots of…
This is a useful gadget for anyone who likes sharing their Powerpoint decks using Slideshare. It adds a button to Powerpoint 2007 (just Windows at the moment, though a Mac version is coming, apparently) which automatically uploads to Slideshare, without…