An online notebook
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 copy of Andrew Keen‘s Cult of the Amateur on my bookshelf – I like to … Keep reading
There are some interesting points in this PDF about the skills required in the age of web 2.0 from Harold Jarche, including: Attitude: Accepting that we will never know everything, but that others may be able to help, is the first step in becoming a learning professional. This is an acceptance of a world in … Keep reading
Gordon Burn, in Born Yesterday, writing about the erstwhile Eastenders actress Susan Tully: A colleague had logged her onto YouTube for the first time that very afternoon, and the fact that just tapping the words ‘Michelle Fowler’ into the thing could back so many moment of the past crowding back – a pandemonium of fragments … Keep reading
Part of the joys of the social web and the community that has built up around it is the sheer informality of the whole thing. Take this, for example: a tweet from Loic Le Meur, CEO of Seesmic this morning: Now, how many chief exec’s have you heard of that broadcast messages to the world … Keep reading
lgSHOUT! is another little service I have put together for local government, following on from LGSearch, which went a little way to fixing the problem of getting relevant search results. lgSHOUT! tries to do something about communication. The idea behind it is that it’s a Twitter for local government types. People can easily sign up … Keep reading