Dave Briggs – Page 561 – An online notebook

Backpack

May 6, 2005

Backpack is a genuinely brilliant site. It is essentially an online personal information manager, giving you the ability to maintain an online diary or keep todo lists, posts photos and all sorts.

Steve Rubel explains it far better than me.

Backpack lets you create and share lists, photos, documents and more in a wiki-like editable Web site you can share – like this one. I am trying it out to share blog links with my client and I love it so far, though I wish it enabled RSS feeds for each page. I see lots of applications here for the PR community including instant press rooms that can be set up in the event of a crisis. Kudos to 37 Signals. It’s also generating a ton of buzz. I bet they’re going to give Jot and Socialtext a run for their money at least in the small biz market.

del.icio.us/theclosedcircle

May 6, 2005

And here is my del.icio.us page. Both this and the Furl one have RSS feeds to subscribe to.

del.icio.us/theclosedcircle

Furl is a bookmark manager, rather like del.icio.us, I think. I am going to give both of them a try and see which is most useful, if either. Here’s the link for my Furl page which as yet has only this blog’s index page in it – how sad!

LookSmart’s Furl – The theclosedcircle Archive

Election 2005 Stuff

May 6, 2005

So, another Labour government, albeit with a much reduced majority. Probably the best result all round.

Here are some interesting snippets from The Guardian‘s coverage this morning.

Tony Blair alone bears the blame – Polly Toynbee
The Tories’ Michael Foot – Max Hastings
Who won? What next? – Lewis Baston
BNP doubles its vote as it builds on support in inner cities

The BBC also provides a rather funky Flash-based map with details of all the results, here.

DIY Declassification

May 5, 2005

This from John Naughton is priceless!

DIY declassification

Ho, ho! The Pentagon released a heavily-censored PDF version of its report into the shooting, by US troops, of the Italian secret agent who was escorting a freed hostage to safety. But it turns out that you could make the blacked-out paragraphs in the classified document, containing top-secret details (such as the name of the soldier who fired the deadly rounds of ammunition) reappear by cutting and pasting them from the site into a Word document! More exquisite details from Corriere della Sera here.

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