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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Sunday, 9 December, 2007
Blogging in Plain English
Another super video explaining blogs – soon the Common Craft guys will have covered the whole of Web 2.0!
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI]
I wonder just how much paid work has come their way since they started doing these free tutorials? Quite a bit, I should imagine. A good example of giving a little away to reap considerably more in return.
Here Comes Another Bubble
Funny song – there is so going to be another crash soon.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o]
Thursday, 6 December, 2007
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Euan MacIntosh’s take on Jimmy Wales’ grear metaphor on how freeing people’s use of the web is like letting folk use knives in restaurants.
Monday, 3 December, 2007
Online Information 2007
Light blogging ahead as I am going to be at the Online Information conference this week. I won’t be taking my laptop with me, but will be twittering my thoughts via my Palm, so do check that out.
Wednesday, 28 November, 2007
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Richard MacManus on the various sites out there for diabetics. I’ve been looking for similar stuff as a relatively recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic myself.
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Interesting developments in web TV, vi Mike Butcher at TechCrunchUK
Tuesday, 27 November, 2007
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This service allows you to download videos from streaming sites like YouTube to your computer, meaning that you can embed them in other media, like Powerpoint presentations for example. Useful! Thanks to Lee Hopkins for the tip.
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Simn Dickson’s latest project, an NHS website running on WordPress. He gives us all hope.
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This site offers free phpBB forum hosting, without ads, apparently. Looks good, not least because you don’t have to stick with a subdomain, you can use your own URL.
Monday, 26 November, 2007
Super-fast splogging
Wow. The post I wrote this morning on my ITunes problem has already been republished by a splogger.
They work fast, these guys. And at least they linked back to here 😉
Bloggers’ strike?
Inspired by the recent screenwriters’ strike in Hollywood – what if bloggers refused to blog?
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLR4OJb5suo]
Via Matt Mullenweg.
ITunes aggravation
I’m not having a lot of luck, technology-wise, at the moment. After all my problems with FireFox, it’s now ITunes’ turn to start playing up. I thought it had been behaving itself for a while…
Anyway, last night I bought a songthrough the ITunes store, only my broadband connection dropped for some reason halfway through downloading. I made the mistake of quitting ITunes and turning the PC off in strop. Now, whenever I go into it, a dialogue box asks me for my Apple ID and password, presumably to allow me to finish downloading the song.
Trouble is, the damn thing won’t let me type my password in, nor do anything else at all. It just sits there.
What am I meant to do? 🙁
Saturday, 24 November, 2007
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“This site was set up with aim of creating a community of innovators interested in the scope for transforming the public sector.” Looks good, and WordPress based. Via Jeremy Gould.
Friday, 23 November, 2007
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edmittance’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
Ed Mitchell’s shared bookmarks are a real treasure trove. Well worth subscribing to!
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Lee Hopkins on the software that helps him work. Some cool stuff here, including SnagIt! and Xilisoft Video Converter.
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Rumour: News Corp to buy LinkedIn
Interesting story from Mike Butcher at TechCrunchUK. I haven’t used LinkedIn for a while, but have been getting a steady stream of connections so it might be worth re-engaging with it.
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Spresent.com – Presentations for New Web
Spresent is another online presentation service, like Google’s and Zoho’s.
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Lovely poster, I want one of these!
Thursday, 22 November, 2007
Be More Productive with Web 2.0
Here’s a little presentation I have cobbled together to try and show what’s possible with a web browser these days. It certainly isn’t intended to be comprehensive, rather to give folk an idea of where they can go to start experimenting. Feel free to use it, edit it, do whatever you like with it.
[slideshare 175910 be-more-productive-with-web-2-1195739427150628-3]
Firefox 3 Beta
Have downloaded and am using the FireFox 3 beta, partly out of interest but also because of the many problems I have been having with version 2 since I switched to Vista.
I’ve found myself having to reinstall FF on an almost daily basis, as it just won’t load otherwise. A real pain in the neck. Anyway, the new beta has already been slammed in TechCrunch, and I’m already annoyed because none of my extensions work with it – something I probably should have predicted. The big problem I currently have with it is the fact that I can’t download anything – it just doesn’t happen. I’m having to flick to IE everytime I need to download a file.
Google Maps API
I have had a really great idea for a little site that I think will be of use to quite a few people in the UK. Trouble is, it relies on using the Google Maps API, and I haven’t a clue how that works, despite my recent best efforts trawling through the documentation.
The basic idea is pretty simple: a homepage with a zoomable map of the UK on it , with markers on the map which when clicked display information about that location. I’d like eventually to be able to show people directions from their address to one or more of the markers too, but that can come later.
I’m guessing that, given there is plenty of information to be handled, a MySQL/PHP/Google Maps integration job might be on the cards. Again, beyond me at the moment, but I just need someone to point me in the right direction.
Can anyone help?
links for 2007-11-22
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Great article from CIO Insight on knowledge management and how it can be done successfully. Thanks to Lee Hopkins for the link.
Sunday, 18 November, 2007
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Ed Mitchell on 3 types of community: centralised, decentralised and distributed. Interesting reading.
Thursday, 15 November, 2007
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I have set up a Google Group to act as a mailing list for LGSearch, the public sector personalised search engine I developed and occasionally maintain.
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Interesting developments on the commnity (ie free) version of Movable Type, with social forums becoming a part of the platform. Is the time now due for an integrated WordPress and bbPress package to be available?
Wednesday, 14 November, 2007
Social Media Starfish
Nice graphical representation of the social media landscape, posted to Flickr by DBarefoot.
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Interesting collecion of academic articles from the “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”. Via Owen Blacker at MySociety.