Nifty Web Cite Tool

Many bloggers could benefit from using a splendid new tool called citebite (found via. Lifehacker). It’s probably easiest for you to just go and have a look, but for the sake of com­plete­ness, here’s what it does.

You copy and paste a chunk of text from a web page you want to quote. Then you tell it which

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The Return of the Forum

Web 2.0 Mecca Techcrunch has just launched one of those funny old user forum things. Muhammad Saleem reckons digg and Netscape could benefit con­sid­er­ably from their intro­duc­tion and points out that reddit achieves a quasi forum func­tion­ality by allowing posts about itself.

Forums or message boards may seem very nineties. In some

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Good for a Laugh

There are, of course, con­sid­er­able advant­ages to working for a non-​​​​profit. None of these types, for a start…

Thanks to Deirdre for the tip off. Apologies to my wife who *cough* flogs space.

No More Shelling Out for Terapad

Good news from my friend Stephan Tual, the main man at Terapad. Terapad is a powerful blog and website hosting service which was launched last September to good reviews but with a bit of a sticking point. It cost money. With free services avail­able from blogger, word­press and vox, among others, I have to confess that I found it

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Of Tags and Taxonomy

Being the sorry sort of person I am, I’ve spent a fair portion of my last day of freedom reading Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems : An Examination of Tagging Practices (Kipp, Margaret E. I. and Campbell, D. Grant (2006). link).

Basically, they looked at the del.icio.us tags used to describe a number

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