I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Redefining the Digital Divide | @helenmilner The system is failing, hack the system – via @annemcx The Four Freedoms – wonderful piece on #opensource by @photomatt The dangerous appeal of the Silicon Valley narrative G+ Hangout: open source CMS for local government Interested in social leadership?Read… Read more »
I’ve just started a LinkedIn group on the topic of digital skills in the workplace. You are very welcome to join. I have to admit – I’ve not done much with LinkedIn groups before, and while much of it is pretty intuitive to anyone who has used similar features on other networks, I’ve had toRead… Read more »
As Samuel Beckett wrote, in Worstward Ho: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Acknowledging the fact that we surely don’t really want our project to fail, what does failing better actually mean? It’s surely about openness – in other words, admitting that things didn’t go to plan, and havingRead… Read more »
WordPress started as a blogging engine, then became a content management system, and these days is a platform for the development of simple web applications. After all, an awful lot of applications are basically just about putting bits of text into boxes, and then arranging them in order to suit whatever your purpose is. PuttingRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Building an Open Source Laptop | MAKE Moving to GOV.UK – the MHRA experience so far How many people does it take to tame the Digital Dragon? (digital skills for all!) PauPress | Contact Relationship Management for WordPress. comms2point0 – a primer about successful online communitiesRead… Read more »
Linkydink is a lovely little service that does one thing very well. It allows people to add links to a group and for a daily list of the links collected to be emailed out to subscribers. It is run by Makeshift, a fantastic company in London that seems to churn out excellent little tools suchRead… Read more »
I wonder if one way of helping the process of blogging is to separate the tools you use for writing and for publishing. Here’s what I mean – when I use WordPress’ editor to compose a post from scratch, I am using the same software to write my content and to publish it. I haveRead… Read more »
Just before Christmas, and as a bit of a Christmas treat for myself, I bought an iPad mini with retina display and 3g mobile broadband access (ie not the wifi only model). I love it. Up til now my tablet of choice was a second generation Nexus 7, produced by Asus but sanctioned by GoogleRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: ongoing by Tim Bray · Software in 2014 Joho the Blog » What blogging was – *sniff* Is Local GDS a good idea? « @demsoc Let’s Replace Council Websites with Local.Gov.Uk – a GDS for Local Government – @copley_rich Joined Up Philanthropy data standards: seeking simplicity,Read… Read more »
A fairly interesting, if somewhat confused in places, piece in The Guardian a few days ago from the author Philip Hensher. He starts by pointing out the rather glorious way that slightly niche publishing projects can get off the ground thanks to crowd funding websites such as Kickstarter, and also the way in which it’sRead… Read more »