October 30th, 2008 |
Today there was a “suspect package” in Digbeth, Birmingham, which meant the roads were shut and buses diverted for the afternoon. Since I tend to get a bus into Digbeth most afternoons I went to Twitter to find out what was going on. News was sketchy with nothing on the mainstream channels and our local [...]
October 23rd, 2008 |
Today saw the most spectacular example of link bating in a long while when Paul Boutin wrote in Wired that blogging is so 2004 and that Flickr, Twitter and Facebook had all but killed it. Normally one would ignore such silliness but stupid utterances do have a purpose in that they encourage us to articulate [...]
October 15th, 2008 |
Blog Action Day was today. You can read about its aims on the site but in short bloggers are encouraged to post about a single topic, in this case poverty, and carry on a conversation across the networks to raise awareness. In Birmingham a bunch of us went about this arse-backwards and decided not to [...]
October 13th, 2008 |
Over the next couple of months I’m planning to write a series of posts covering the basics. When I do workshops and surgeries I find the same questions come up again and again so it makes sense to have a resource I can point people to. It’ll also give me the motivation to structure my [...]
October 13th, 2008 |
Digital Mentor – Developing a new role through collaboration – "This site has been created to help a group of collaborators to work on the development of the role of Digital Mentors, which was raised by the UK government department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) in their white paper in 2008, Communities in Control." [...]
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