Monthly Archives: October 2008

ColaLife Campaign Video

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Dave

Some news from the ColaLife campaign… as part of the submission to Google for the 10^100 competition, a 30 second video has been created. And it’s lovely: [HTML1] Please visit the YouTube page and mark the video as a favourite, … Continue reading →

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Rewriting the rules

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Dave

John Naughton‘s Observer column on ten years of blogging is a delightful read: This openness to immediate criticism and/or rebuttal is another revolutionary aspect of blogging. What we are seeing, wrote Clay Shirky some years ago (available online at http://bit.ly/fkxik), … Continue reading →

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Do councils need a website at all?

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Dave

Simon Wakeman poses a potentially controversial question on his blog: One idea that’s been playing on my mind for the past few days is whether a council needs a website at all. Initially this might seem like complete heresy. Surely … Continue reading →

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Akismet now has stats!

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Dave

Akismet is a plugin for WordPress (and a few other platforms) which helps combat the problem of comment spam. That when ne’erdowells come on your blog and post nonsense comments in the hope pick click the links in them to … Continue reading →

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Bookmarks for October 15th through October 16th

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Dave

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 15th through October 16th: Cumbrian Newspapers Group boosts hyperlocal websites – "Independent regional publisher Cumbrian Newspapers Group is rolling out a series of interactive websites to allow community group to create their own pages … Continue reading →

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