Introducing ‘Blog Friends’, a new application on Facebook which fills an apparently simple yet imporant niche. This is what it does: Track blog posts by your Facebook friends—on topics that interest you Showcase those posts on your Facebook profile Watch your friends grow your blog readership for you in return It’s just been launched as […]
Samantha Murphy asks on Facebook MyQuestions how can a musician earn a living in the digital age, in conjunction with having just decided that “Free is the way to go” and making all the tracks on her album available for free download. I’m trying to synthesise this situation facing musical artists with the ideas from […]
Escape from Cubicle Nation asks Are there any rules for social/business networking? We’re talking about Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin here. Unless you have been hiding under a rock, as a person who deals with the business of networking on the internet, you are aware that Linkedin, Facebook and MySpace are important places to see and […]
Here’s a great prospect for increasing economic activity in an area of the UK outside of London and the South East. A fast car ferry service between North Devon and South Wales. One of my earliest memories is of being taken onboard the paddle steamer between Cardiff docks and Weston Super mare. According to recoords, […]
I was going to write something about creativity based on Matt Moore’s article but Jack beat me to it. I know some people are trying to think hard about exactly what is the nature of creativity. Well if “human knowing is fundamentally a social act” (Wenger) , and creativity is a social act (below) , […]
Lorelle on WordPress issues occasional challenges to inspire readers to blog. This week’s blog challenge is to blog your blog’s story. What is the story behind your blog? I want to know the story behind why you decided to blog. What made you believe you had something to blog about? How did you pick your […]
Another London Wiki Wednesday last night, and a good one too. This time hosted by Bearing Point in Paternoster Square. Tiddlywiki was on show again, this time with a quick prototype of an app for setting up VOIP connections in the form of “speedgeeking” which was chaotic as intended. I spoke on ‘the importance of […]
Registration for the pajamanation global microjobs exchange is now going to be free, forever. There will be no subscription fee, and no commission or percentage charged on microjob contracts. Just as I pondered after listening to Jyri Engestrm, the business model for a sucessful website these days often needs to change. “Charge the publishers, not […]
Like a previous post, ( and this one and this one ), this is another blog post inspired by conversation on a listserv (email discussion group). The discussion was sparked off originally by a request for advice on dealing with repeated disruption in an online community. The e-Mint community responded with some suggestions, including technological […]
Reinventing Project Based Learning at the NECC See my full notes on Usefulwiki and feel free to add your own thoughts on the subject to the wiki. As I said in my last post I did manage to make a virtual appearance at the NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) in Atlanta USA today. Many thanks […]
