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Stuff I have bookmarked for October 22nd through October 25th:

• Leopard: How to Install WordPress – How to get wordpress running locally on a mac
• Digital Inclusion – Communities and neighbourhoods – Communities and Local Government – "While the majority of people in the UK are active participants in the digital revolution, these benefits are not distributed equally to all groups and communities. Inequality in the use and application of digital technologies is a new driver of social exclusion in the 21st century, which risks accelerating existing social divides and creating new ones. Digital exclusion is a symptom of wider exclusion, but also a cause"
• Interview: Tom Steinberg of MySociety | Technology | The Guardian – Michael Cross talks to Tom Steinberg. Good stuff, and hopefully gets the message out to those not in the govweb echo chamber! 😉
• A mini conference for Facilitating Online – WikiEducator – Cool looking online conference, via Ed Mitchell
• How to define a place – "The internet is the first port for new information these days – ask any encyclopedia salesman." Great stuff on hyperlocal news reporting and communities online from Will Perrin

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 17th through October 22nd:

• Information Fair Trader Scheme (IFTS) – "The Information Fair Trader Scheme sets and assesses standards for public sector bodies. It requires them to encourage the re-use of information and reach a standard of fairness and transparency."
• Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War – Interesting article, via Ed Mitchell
• AppleInsider | Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs – OOooh, some new imacs planned. My xmas list is getting longer and longer!
• Ten tweaks for a new Acer Aspire One | Register Hardware – Thinking about getting one of these, so this contains some useful tips
• Digital Britain – the future of communications – "An action plan to secure the UK’s place at the forefront of innovation, investment and quality in the digital and communications industries will be developed by Stephen Carter, the first Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting."

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 15th through October 16th:

• Cumbrian Newspapers Group boosts hyperlocal websites – "Independent regional publisher Cumbrian Newspapers Group is rolling out a series of interactive websites to allow community group to create their own pages alongside newspaper content."
• BAD08 Birmingham Social Media Surgery: provisional results – Nick Booth's summary of the wonderful social media surgery that took place in Birmingham on Blog Action Day 2008.
• Social Media Classroom – Very cool looking online social media learning & teaching tool. Thanks to @clarewhite for the tip
• Jubilee Debt Campaign Birmingham – One of the sites created by the Birmingham Bloggers Poverty Blog Action Day Social Media Surgery (or BBPBADSMS as I am sure it will become known)
• Start your new FAQlog! – Easy way to build hosted FAQ pages. Not entirely sure of the point but seems kind of an interesting idea…
• Iain Dale’s Diary: LibDem Peer Monsters LGA Man – How not to speak to the media…

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 12th through October 15th:

• Five ways to publish commentable documents online at Helpful Technology – More great stuff from Steph. Damn him.
• Tech Angels – "The Tech Angels are a student-run group at Wellington Girls’ College that aim to encourage and develop the use and integration of ICT into education and curriculum learning. " via @cased
• Socialreporter | The five year journey from Civic Hacking Fund to mySociety – David Wilcox on mySociety's 5th birthday, including a video of Tom Steinberg from 2003. Good stuff!
• Bloomberg.com: Exclusive – US government switching from Microsoft to Google Apps
• Government 2.0 – Best Practices / FrontPage – North american based wiki of cool govweb stuff
• Welsh schools to embrace climate change challenge – "Schools and their central role in the climate change challenge was the topic of discussion at a conference attended by Minister for Education Jane Hutt today."

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 9th through October 12th:

• NHS Constitution « Tub O’Lard’s Mutterings – Write up a recent consultation exercise by the NHS on their new constitution with Diabetes UK representatives.
• Diabetes.co.uk – Big looking online diabetes community
• Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Nonprofits Using Ning – Great post from Beth Kanter on using the white label social networking service
• Rendering Knowledge – "…I updated my original three rules of knowledge management to seven principles which I share below"
• About this website — Rural Britain: a 2020 vision – "Hello. My name is Simon Berry and I am on a mission to pull together a collective vision of rural Britain in 2020."
• Story Telling, Web 2.0, and Non-profits | ImageSpace — Nonprofits and Web 2.0 – Nice little summary, via Laura Whitehead