By Ian, on January 6th, 2007 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 Continue reading Nifty Web Cite Tool By Ian, on January 5th, 2007 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 Continue reading The Return of the Forum By Ian, on January 5th, 2007 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. By Ian, on January 3rd, 2007 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 Continue reading No More Shelling Out for Terapad By Ian, on January 2nd, 2007 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 Continue reading Of Tags and Taxonomy | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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