Monthly Archives: October 2008

The power of fun

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 … Continue reading

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Two points about the alleged “death of blogging”

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 … Continue reading

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Blog Action Day happened

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 … Continue reading

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Questions please

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 … Continue reading

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Links

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 … Continue reading

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