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An online notebook
Am using Google Reader at the moment as the new version of NetNewsWire, which I foolishly downloaded, seems to have problems doing anything. There’s a number of new features that I need to investigate that weren’t around when I last…
One of the problems of being a new media fanboy like me is that we sometimes get a bit too excited about this stuff, and fail to see some of the downsides of web 2.0. That’s why I have a…
Just a quickie, this: when you are assigning tags to a piece of online content, how do you prefer to segregate different items on the list: with spaces – like del.icio.us with commas – like WordPress with spaces but with…
It’s my birthday today, I am now in my 30th year. 29 years old! Hopefully this won’t mean lots of pontificating over the next 12 months about what I have achieved, and what I am going to do with myself…
Inspired a little by Jeremy’s post on his blog’s first birthday, I thought I might have a little dig into the numbers for this blog. It’s only been going since November 2006, so about six months and frankly was going…
I love the way that the social web creates connections between people, and allows us to pass those connections on to those that we think might be interested. I had a great chat today with a guy called Peter Haine…
The Online Information conference is coming up again in December, and having attended it last year, I was determined to actually present something this time around. David Wilcox and I have been talking a great deal in recent times about…
This weekend there is a really exciting event going on at the Bargehouse in London – it’s simply called Shine. For three days, The Bargehouse at the heart of London’s Southbank will host a mash-up gathering, an ‘Un’Conference that will…
Jon Bounds has come up with another brilliant idea – using the ‘people powered customer support’ site GetSatisfaction to create a community around the services provided by Birmingham City Council. So, I thought, could this work for a local council?…
My second post has appeared at the DC10plus blog, on some of the other, non-video elements of our social reporting experiment at the Digital Inclusion conference: By using tags in this way, it means that anyone can publish content and…
Sadly the UK Youth Engagement Barcamp, planned for the 17th May, has been postponed, due to a lack of venue. This is a shame as I was really looking forward to what was bound to be a cracking event, but…
John Naughton links to an event taking place in Cambridge on 19th May: Nick Davies, a well-known and award-winning investigative journalist, has recently published Flat Earth News, a controversial and highly-critical analysis of the British news media in which he…
Having an iPhone has really liberated me in term of the way that I use Flickr. This would be true of any phone with decent internet connectivity, and indeed there are plenty of handsets out there with better camera functionality…
As part of our work social reporting the Digital Inclusion conference last week, David and I agreed to write some posts building on what we had done on DC10plus’ own blog, which is hosted at WordPress.com . The first of…
Things have been relatively quiet here on DavePress, but don’t worry, I have been busy. I’ve been working on a few projects – as well as the social reporting stuff with David – which I will hopefully be able to…
I had the pleasure of talking to Patrick Butler of the Guardian the other day on the subject of public sector types blogging. He did a jolly good job of editing down everything I said into one paragraph in his…
Here David and I discuss our day’s social reporting:
Today was most enjoyably spent at the Digital Inclusion conference, with David Wilcox, doing some video and other social web stuff on behalf of DC10plus. We decided that, rather than drown DC10plus’s own blog with everything we produced, we would…
I’m chucking up some nice bits of video over on the DC10plus social reporting site. I especially like this one, featuring David Wilcox and some impairment-simulation gear: [youtube:]