Found/interesting: 16 August

I’m on holiday, this is as much as you’re gonna get right now…!

PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives
Coolest power tools of some top geeks
10 kickass crowdsourcing sites for your business
Social Networking on Intranets (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Twitter 101 — Download the slides & print the guide
Digital diplomacy website – FCO digital team’s knowledge hub
MP asks [...]


Seriously dude, WTF is social media? The NSFW presentation one year on

In one of the first ever posts on this blog I shared Marta Kagan’s ever-so-sweary slide deck, WTF is Social Media. It helped my blog get off to a pretty good start, so it would be churlish not to post the sequel…
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
View more documents from Marta Kagan.
For my [...]


Found/interesting: 11 April to 16 May

A near-random selection of stuff I’ve found interesting lately.

Us Now : watch the film -like it says.
I Can Haz Writin Skillz? – Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. – HFACTDEWARIUCSMNUWKIASLAMB.
WordPress in UK government: an informal audit – and very soon, blogs on the BERR intranet too.
5 Very Weird URL Shorteners -variety is the spi.ce [...]


Going Pro: what web applications have you paid for, and why?

With the endless speculation about Twitter’s monetisation plans and ample indications that most Twitter users *would* be willing to pay some hard-earned cash for their continued use of the service, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what web applications people currently pay for.
For my part, it has to be a [...]


Found/interesting: 9-20 March

Look what I found interesting.

Working Together – Crime maps, schools comparison engines – it’s all go in the world of digital government. Good to see RSA using Australia’s favourite OSS CMS as the online response channel for this consultation.
Tweeting for twouble – 12 good men and true …oh and all those Twitter users too. Big [...]


Grumpy old media

She wasn’t the first, and she certainly won’t be the last, but Rachel Sylvester’s Twitter-bashing editorial in today’s Times is surely the absolute worst thus far of the recent old media knee-jerk reactions to the use of Twitter by government and politicians.
Not only is her microblogophobia out of step with her own paper, which – [...]


Found/interesting: 6-14 Jan

Have a load of links on me.

Blimey @joswinson thanks @tom_watson – Simon Dickson notes a first as Parliamentary business spills over onto Twitter.
CivicSurf » DFID Blog Coaching – The DFID bloggers experiment is proving its value, and growing.
The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance – Denial > microblogging. I think I’m on the return path [...]


Found/interesting: 31 Dec to 6 Jan

I found this stuff interesting while browsing around.
Maybe you will too.

How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives - a balanced view from the Mail.
Twittering on: How internet ‘micro-blogging’ went global – A more thoughtful piece on Twitter including the Israeli consulate’s use of it for PR firefighting. Interesting [...]