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
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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
links for 2008-10-01
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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 …
links for 2008-09-30
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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.
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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.
links for 2008-09-29
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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.
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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!
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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 …
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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.
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How older people are getting into Facebook – with some disastrous outcomes. Do the over 30s simply not have the inate nouse of the teens?
links for 2008-09-28
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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.
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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.
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Steph Gray’s summary of this weekend’s UKYouthOnline ‘un’conference.
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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.
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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.
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For people involved in local technology planning – possible use for COI with clients, or indeed ourselves? Worth checking out more thoroughly
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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.
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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 …
links for 2008-09-25
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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.
links for 2008-09-23
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Quite brilliant, and spot-on characterisation.
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Very nasty thought: is Facebook the 21st century AOL, doomed to burn bright – and fail spectacularly? I think WebMonkey might have a point…





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