Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is as micro-blogging. You can only write posts of 140 characters or less. Hardly the medium … Keep reading

Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is as micro-blogging. You can only write posts of 140 characters or less. Hardly the medium … Keep reading

Open Source Politics

Great article from David Wilcox: Does it matter whether politicians who talk up the Internet’s potential for re-inventing politics, education, employment actually use it hands-on for the purposes they present, and join in? Or should we just be grateful if they have a good script from their researchers, have met the right people, and can … Keep reading

Ning

Ning is a great platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own site to which people can sign up and leave blog posts, have forum discussions, upload photos and videos and publish RSS feeds. I had a play here. It’s another example of being able to … Keep reading

Is Search Broken?

Tom Foremski over at Silicon Vallery Watcher points out the things that annoy him about search: – There are many publishers that try to make sure their headlines catch the attention of the search engines rather than catch the attention of readers. The same is true for content, editors increasingly optimize it for the search … Keep reading