Archive for November, 2007

• Knowledge management
  Great article from CIO Insight on knowledge management and how it can be done successfully. Thanks to Lee Hopkins for the link.
  (tags: km knowledge management)

• Three types of community
  Ed Mitchell on 3 types of community: centralised, decentralised and distributed. Interesting reading.
  (tags: communities edmitchell)

• LGSearch | Google Groups
  I have set up a Google Group to act as a mailing list for LGSearch, the public sector personalised search engine I developed and occasionally maintain.
  (tags: lgsearch googlegroups)
• MT Community Solution: Blogs Meet Forums 2.0
  Interesting developments on the commnity (ie free) version of Movable Type, with social forums becoming a part of the platform. Is the time now due for an integrated WordPress and bbPress package to be available?
  (tags: mt movabletype blogs forums)

Nice graphical representation of the social media landscape, posted to Flickr by DBarefoot.

• JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1
  Interesting collecion of academic articles from the “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”. Via Owen Blacker at MySociety.
  (tags: research socialnetworking academic web2.0 culture media)

Caroline Middlebrook has produced a guide to Twitter - what it is and why we should all be using it. Great stuff.

Thanks to Phil Bradley for the link - I hadn’t come across Caroline’s blog before but am now subscribed.

• CommentPress
  CommentPress is a WordPress theme that allows commenters to record their views against individual paragrahs of a post, thus making it a live consultation document. Thanks to Simon Dickson for pointing it out.
  (tags: wordpress collaboration blog comments blogging writing tools themes)
• springnote
  Springnote is a nice looking hosted wiki service.
  (tags: wiki web2.0 collaboration free hosting)

• It’s stunning, powerful and elegant… so set the iPhone free
  John Naughton’s Observer column on Apple’s iPhone
  (tags: iphone naughton observer apple)
• Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.
  Jing is a service that allows you to create screencasts - recordings of what you do on your PC screen - within the browser for free. Cool!
  (tags: screencapture video screencast tools web2.0 presentations collaboration software)

• Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it!
  Stephen Fry on the iPhone: “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the joy. “
  (tags: iphone stephenfry)

I love Charlie Brooker’s columns at The Guardian’s Comment is Free site as much as I love his TV stuff. I’m just catching up on his posts after being offline for a while, and came across this gem:

Years ago, on a night out with a girl I was slowly going crazy for, the sheer weight of mental calculation left me unable to make any sort of move. We shared a cab together, and after it dropped her home, she sent a text message saying: “I wanted you to kiss me.” But the moment had gone. A week later she met the love of her life and that was that. It happens to everyone at some stage, obviously. But this was worse because it happened to me.