London Bloggers
Andy Bargery, who I met at a London Geek dinner last year, has set up a new home for London Bloggers, which is a blog of course, and a meetup tomorrow evening near Waterloo. I’ll be there. If you...
View ArticleCritique of this blog
Ning Group I went to the better blog Ning group which is kind of a community of practice for some bloggers, and asked for a critique of my blog, from the point of view of a new reader. It’s one of the...
View ArticleTen tips for bloggers taking part in forums
These ten top tips for bloggers who want to participate more in web forums might help to make life easier for all involved. Originally written in response to a question from Danielle, actually there...
View ArticleOpen thread for lurkers
This is an “open thread” patterned blog post which means that I’m not writing on any particular topic, instead I’m leaving it open to my readers to initiate discussion by bringing up any subject you’d...
View Articledebate: The end of the Organisation?
As with the recent open thread for lurkers, this post is one from a series which adopts different blogging patterns. At the suggestion of Joitske Hulsebosch the format is that of a debate, and the...
View ArticleThe Jelly Art Club movie
Twitter profile pictures are on the change, largely as a result of “something-friday” events involving people, body parts and peas. So my regular pic which I use in lots of places suddenly starts to...
View ArticleFarmers collaborate online to face rural uncertainty
The blue tongue disease outbreak in the UK has been relatively dormant over the winter months when midges are not active, but it hasn’t gone away by any means. The good news though, is that an...
View ArticleTwitter lists gathered on a wiki blog or forum
As the use of twitter continues to spread despite the restricted service and downtime, a commonplace event for communities is to start compiling lists of links to each other’s twitter accounts. These...
View ArticleThe Critics and Social Media
In the creative world, the views of critics have traditionally been held to be of some significant influence. A few bad reviews could kill off a promising new project. It was also possible for the...
View ArticleHow Not To Use Online Communities
I’ve just read a message on the ukcider community email list which warrants a response on the meta level about how online communities can be a fantastic resource for research and tapping into a...
View ArticleUK Online Communities
The wiki called WorkNets has a project collating a list of UK Online Communities. UKOnlineCommunities, WorkNets. A culture for independent thinkers. The list is young and obviously has huge gaps, as...
View ArticleWeather Photography Competition
I’ve just heard about the British weather photographer of the year competition and decided to enter myself. This provided me with a nice opportunity to look back through my photographs of the summer...
View ArticleTheatre Blogger: 52 Venues in 52 weeks
One way of standing out from the crowd is to commit yourself to a challenge that takes place over a period of time, and then blog about it every step of the way. In the film “Julie and Julia” a...
View ArticleBlog Action Day 2010 – #BAD2010
The topic for Blog Action Day 2010 is water, and I’m just going to link out to some other entries from here, this time. In 2009 I wrote blog-action-day-when-the-waters-rise In 2007, the first blog...
View ArticleYahoo! MyBlogLog Closing 24th May 2011
It’s a shame, I found the stats facility in MyBlogLog a nice and quick alternative to Google Analytics. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. We recommend Yahoo!...
View ArticleThe Cooperative movement was born out a mixture of radical socialism and...
The Cooperative movement was born out a mixture of radical socialism and paternalist philanthropy during a period of upheavals and change. It was a group called The Rochdale Pioneers who established...
View ArticleFacebook Scams
Dear FB Friends/Family: You can’t find out who saw your profile. You won’t see what you’ll look like in the future. You won’t know what that man saw when he walked in on his daughter. There are no free...
View ArticleWhen will Google+ allow people to add their own feeds?
When if at all, will Google+ allow people to add their own RSS feeds? Friendfeed took off when rooms were added, harnessing the power of the so-called social interest graph, but it started to lose...
View ArticleDelete WordPress Plugins with ManageWP
I’ve just been using ManageWP beta – the web utility for managing multiple WordPress installations – to delete an obsolete plugin from several of my older blogs. The functionality to delete or...
View ArticleOrbit Tower blogging the Olympics and Paralympics
Blogging the Orbit Tower during the Olympic Games and Paralympics Orbit Tower Media Centre For the duration of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the run up to the Olympics and Paralympics I’ve been...
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