Catching up
Has it really been two weeks since I last posted here? Well, I’ve been busy, doing stuff. I promise. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the stuff I would normally have been writing about here during the whirlwind of…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Ofqual’s new commentable report
I’ve being doing some work over the past few months with Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications in the UK. Much of the work has been around how they could use social web technology to work better internally, but I’ve also…
Pukka: an answer to my prayers
I’m making quite a lot of use of the social bookmarking service Delicious at the moment. Luckily, it is mostly using my own account, but on one or two projects I am using specific accounts. This can be a pain…
Timetric
Timetric is a Cambridge based startup that, in their own words, is here to help you make sense of data. If you think about it, most of the numbers we come across every day are things like temperatures, prices, rates,…
Remind us of your views, again?
I wrote a little while back about a fairly terrible website being used by Cambridgeshire’s Transport Commission to consult people on their views. Cambridge News now reports: A PROBE into Cambridgeshire’s transport crisis – including the idea of a congestion…
DavePress redux
I’m currently having a good sort out of this blog – and will be relaunching it with quite a few changes in the near future. I have found that running a self-hosted blog is a bit like running a PC,…
Visit Cambridge site hacked
Cambridge City Council’s Visit Cambridge tourism site has been hacked, with various unsavoury pictures and links added, reports the Cambridge News: CAMBRIDGE’S official tourism website was still offline today after pornographic images were posted in place of pictures of the…
Upgrading WordPress
With the release of WordPress 2.7.1, I realised it is about time I upgraded this blog to the latest version – not least since having played with it on some other sites I work on, I have realised how awesome…
New books
Yet more dead tree web 2.0 reading… And yes, that is WordPress for Dummies – it’s a great book with tonnes of stuff for newbies and experienced WordPressers alike – recommended!
Weathering the storm with a blog
Looks you don’t have to have an environmentally friendly e-magazine to advise residents and local businesses about how to get through the recession. Carl Haggerty points to Devon’s Weathering the Storm site. Like Lincoln, they have got something up that’s…