Dave Snowden’s post caught my eye today. (I’m interpreting Weltanschauung as meaning ‘world view’, or ‘accepted opinion’ here). Sensible (and deep) perspective on the social computing ‘revolution’ (my word not Dave’s), as you’d probably expect fro…
I’ve picked up on a couple of blogs recently referring to Ning, a platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own site to which people can sign up and leave blog posts, have forum discuss…
Bruce Mason over at TNN – Tags/Networks/Narrative has some interesting things to say about folksonomies, taxonomies and ‘collabularies’ (I choke each time I mention that word!). I’ve also learnt a new term – ‘feral hypertext’ – now I like that!
I picked this item up from Beth Kantor’s blog who references a report by JISC on Web 2.0 technologies (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf) I have to say that, on the whole, the report gives a very good introduction to Web…
I came across Picnik – a web site providing free photo editing and special effects. The site is still in Beta, and some of the creative tool tabs are annotated with ‘Coming Soon”. However, the photo editing tools all work, the interface is quite s…
I came across the idea of Action Oriented communities of practice on the Anecdote blog by Shawn Callahan. It refers to the point in the CoP life cycle when the group really benefits from creating tangible things designed to improve the members’ pr…
David Wilcox over at Designing for Civil Society has done an excellent job in putting together a social media glossary. I’m sure this will become a definitive reference source for many people involved in this fascinating and developing topic, and …
I assume that like me, anyone who signed the road pricing petition (see earlier blog) got their ‘personal’ email from Tony Blair today. For anyone interested in seeing what Tony has to say about it, you can find a copy of the email here: Download …
There’s an excellent commentary by Barb Brown on the role of Technology Stewards. Being a technology steward has very little to do with being an expert technology user, instead it’s much more about understanding the connections and interactions of…
I’m afraid this is off theme a bit, unless I try and make a very tenuous link to story telling techniques described by Shawn Callahan over at Anecdote! Actually, I picked this up from The Times yesterday in relation to a compilation of anecdotes f…
