del.icio.us links: 23 Sept – 2 Oct 2008

October 1, 2008 in Bookmarks

It was getting a bit messy, all those separate daily posts, so here’s the last week of del.icio.us bookmarks combined into one post …

links for 2008-10-02

• CivicSurf Booklet
  An advice booklet for councillors and other civic leaders to use blogs to communicate with their constituents, talking about why, what and how to blog, how to save time blogging, and why forward-thinking community leaders are blogging
  (tags: blogs blogging socialmedia web2.0 localpolitics)

links for 2008-10-01

• Becta says Web 2.0 motivates schoolkids
  Half of teachers think Web 2.0 is useful for teaching – even though most teachers have never used them in the classroom. But 29% of teachers are enthusiastic bloggers. That, and other useful Web 2.0 stats …
  (tags: education socialmedia technology web2.0)

links for 2008-09-30

• Singapore Grand Prix – Big Picture
  Wow. Some gorgeous photography form the Singapore GP. Partly it’s the city and the fact that the race was under flood lights, but mostly these are just excellent, up close, superbly taken pictures. Wonderful.
  (tags: singapore photography formula1 motorracing grandprix)
• Digital Dialogues – Third Phase Report
  An independent review of ways in which central government can use new technologies to promote public engagement and democratic renewal. Interesting review, summary and analysis.
  (tags: web2.0 web government consultation blogs socialmedia)

links for 2008-09-29

• BBC | UK Council for Child Internet Safety launched
  New watchdog to protect children from harmful web content, violent games, and cyber-bullying on social networking sites. Be interesting to se how this fits in with the existing CEOP initiative.
  (tags: youth web social security education government children exploitation protection)
• BBC | Why not to sell off second hand kit on eBay
  Or if you do, make sure it is wiped, wiped, and wiped again. This bit of network hardware gave access to a council’s internal network because the settings were left on it. D’oh!
  (tags: technology internet security)
• 10 different ways to post to your blog
  Not just the built-in WordPress editor: you can publish using ScribeFire, through autoposting from delicious and Twitter – and many more. FLickr even has its own ‘blog’ functionality for posting about your pictures there simply and easily, which I’ve never explored. Off to do so now …
  (tags: tools software blogging blog)
• Scobleizer | A tale of two photos on Flickr
  How one photo got 96 hits and the other almost 1400 – thanks to promoting on Twitter, blogs, Flickr favourite – oh, and the subject and uniqueness of the photo, too. An interesting lesson.
  (tags: socialmedia flickr blogging twitter web2.0)
• Facebook, social networking, public humiliation,
  How older people are getting into Facebook – with some disastrous outcomes. Do the over 30s simply not have the inate nouse of the teens?
  (tags: facebook web2.0 socialmedia)

links for 2008-09-28

• Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE
  Fascinating Wired feature of the behind-the-scenes story of the creation of Google’s Chrome browser. Wired really seems to be back on form this year.
  (tags: wired browsers chrome google technology software)
• Digital Archiving – An Important Question
  Digital archiving is becoming one of the biggest concerns of the moment, with fears that too much of our history will simply disappear with site revamps and URL switches. It’s something that the National Archives and the government policy team are working on for the public sector, too.
  (tags: archive history nationalarchives)
• The power of unconference at Helpful Technology
  Steph Gray’s summary of this weekend’s UKYouthOnline ‘un’conference.
  (tags: socialmedia web2.0 communications ukyouthonline youth dius)
• Developing the Research Agenda – workshop
  Interested in social networking sites, e-Communities and other collaborative Internet Technologies? Want to discuss the complex reasons why these technologies are a run away success with leaders in the field? Then this is the workshop for you.
  (tags: technology conference socialmedia socialnetworking networking ecommunities onlinecommunity)
• How are young people using social media?
  Research by DIUS presented Steph Gray at this weekend’s UKYouthOnline ‘un’conference, showing which services are used regularly by young people. Vital information for anyone seeking to use social media to reach this traditionally hard to reach audience.
  (tags: socialmedia web2.0 communications dius)
• Social media game
  For people involved in local technology planning – possible use for COI with clients, or indeed ourselves? Worth checking out more thoroughly
  (tags: web2.0 tools socialmedia game education consulting ukyouthonline)
• Apple makes iTunes accessible to the blind
  Big step forward by Apple in making iTunes and iPods accessible for the blind. The recent Nanos and iPod touch phones are very inaccessible at the moment and have been generating a lot of negative comment, so this is a great development.
  (tags: itunes apple ipod accessibility blind)
• Wal-Mart Closes DRM System: Sorry, Your Songs Are Toast
  This just shows, with DRM you don’t really owe the songs, just rent them. If the retailer shuts up its scheme, suddenly the music’s not yours anymore. And people wonder why I prefer buying the CD and having it in my hot little hands …
  (tags: drm music ecommerce)

links for 2008-09-25

• iPhone X-Plane review
  I haven’t got an iPhone (or an iPod touch) – yet – but this is the kind of thing that makes me want one. Just looks awesome.
  (tags: iPod iPhone flight)

links for 2008-09-23

• NYT | Aaron Sorkin’s Meeting of Obama and Bartlet
  Quite brilliant, and spot-on characterisation.
  (tags: obama westwing uspolitics presidential)
• Searching for Value in Facebook s Internet Lite
  Very nasty thought: is Facebook the 21st century AOL, doomed to burn bright – and fail spectacularly? I think WebMonkey might have a point…
  (tags: facebook socialmedia web2.0 onlinecommunity)