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The ASH-10 Digest of Things to Read

Another batch of links to hopefully interesting things I’ve been reading.

What We're Doing When We Blog – Short essay by Meg Hourihan from way back in 2002 which bears reading again. Sometimes the obvious needs re-stating.
A load of Thunderer – The Sunday Times published a piece of high hackery about social media, as it [...]

Talking about Local

Will Perrin has a plan. He wants to train thousands of people to set up community websites in their neighbourhoods across the UK. And it’s very likely a lot of this work will take place in Birmingham. Here’s Will talking about the community blog he runs in Kings Cross which inspired him to develop the [...]

Help me define Social Media

As I head off for a weekend in London away from all this stuff I’d like to leave you with a question, if that’s okay.
What is Social Media?
You may have picked up hints that I don’t really like the term. It’s vague, no-one really knows what it means and because of that anyone can claim [...]

Recommended Reading

I appreciate this avalanche of links is somewhat overwhelming. Sorry about that! You might want to revisit it when you have more time.

Network West Midlands' Travel Map – is a marvel and not just because it's lightyears ahead of anything they've produced before. It's an interactive Google Maps mashup that hooks into live timetable [...]

Data Pub

Last month I outlined a strategy for running an ultra-local blog from a cafe. This went down pretty well and it looks like, touch wood, it’s going to realised in some form later this year. So with that moving nicely along I started thinking about pubs.
It occurred to me the other day that pubs [...]