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January 2004 Archives
Macromedia Flex Sneak Peek
A look at Macromedia's code-based approach to building interactive user interfaces. read full post
Weblogs more social than social networks
Dina Mehta and Lilia Efimova point out key differences between using Weblogs vs YASNs for augmenting online social interaction read full post
Overview of slashdot-style moderation systems
analysis and discussion of methods of maintaining norms in online communities read full post
The flight of the Orkut
The first flight of the Orkut was brief, but generated a lot of interest. What does this tell us about the state of online social networking today? read full post
Paper on supporting unstructured metadata in law firms
Law firms and unstructured knowledge - towards a less top-down approach read full post
KM and e-learning
KM, e-learning both better served by informal social software read full post
Some links about testing
Testing sites and applications is very important, especially where audience and participation levels are unknown in advance read full post
Attention, "absent presence" and designing for meaning
Matt Jones sees the issue of absent presence as a design challenge read full post
AtomEnabled: rolling out a new syndication standard
Will Atom live alongside RSS 2.0 or replace it? read full post
European e-gov interoperability framework
Details of an emerging European framework from Dr John Gotze read full post
Orkut: possible Google social networking service
Google dipping its big toe in the social networking water? read full post
Link propagation and "discovery credit"
Link amplificationl, discopvery credit and the role of del.icio.us. read full post
Eurekster: search through your friends
"if one more website asks me to "invite all of my friends," I swear I'm gonna..." read full post
RSS Winterfest
RSS Winterfest begins read full post
Network data visualisation
A day of thinking about information visualisation tools read full post
Bottom-up business and co-creation of value
Ross picks up on his own and other peoples' collected thoughts on the bottom-up approach to business that is facilitated by the Internet. read full post
The trouble with social software...
Losing the battle against racism on online forums, and what happened when the BBC "let the people decide..." read full post
Storytelling and dialogue among youth on the Internet
link to First Monday paper read full post
Free survey tool - looks nice
free survey tool for web sites with various tyoes of survey question and structure read full post
List of (mainly UK) business social networks
list of UK groups that bring together people for business networking purposes read full post
More on Wikis as an alternative to team email
"The biggest advantage of the wiki is that it reduces the team’s reliance on overused e-mail, which in most offices serves as the last repository for all important information" read full post
Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism
link to useful guide to open source e-activism tools read full post
Narrative and our sense of self
Fascinating book review from the Guardian that looks at the way we construct personal narratives that become part of our sense of self read full post
Short list of Weblog search engines
weblog search sites from Seb Paquet read full post
Digital Democracy event at ETCON
Joi Ito previews the Digital Democracy event at ETCON 2004, February 9, San Diego read full post
Blogging allows direct conversations with the market
Long article about how weblogs can encourage direct conversations with the market read full post
2003: year of Apache?
On Kuroshin, John Chamberlain writes about Netcraft's server statistics for 2003, which seem to show that the open source Apache Web server is gaining significant ground against Microsoft's IIS, which is bundled with its server software: "Since October 2002 market... read full post
Shift Happens
Shift happens: weblogging model extends to more applications than just journal sharing read full post
Community groups better at reaching socially excluded than formal training schemes
Public access points such as UK Online Centres has been seen as a way of reaching out to the socially excluded - do they work? read full post
UK Corporate Web sites slowly improving
limited improvement in UK corporate sites, but a hard core of appalling examples remain read full post
Computer Programs for Social Network Analysis
Links to software for SNA read full post
Internet and Coffee Houses - A 350-year History
Internet cafes are the heirs of the C17th tradiution of coffee houses as centres of gossip and debate read full post
Weblog strategies for non-profits
a long post about ways non-profits can create practical strategies for using weblogs in their work read full post
User Experience Design books from 2003
UXD books from 2003 read full post
Share your OPML!
Dave Winer wants you to share your OPML feeds - great little idea read full post
Knowledge augmentation methods
Denham Grey looks at different methods of knowledge augmentation (jargon alert!) read full post
Good guide to e-learning
simple page-by-page guide to e-learning read full post
What's in store for '04?
2003 was good for us - hope for you too - here's a roundup of what various people think may happen in 2004, plus our own views on where we are going read full post
Do you know you are a Googlewhack?
We shall forever be associated with the sound of homoeroticism read full post
Web browsers no longer main clients for internet connection
Browsers no longer the main client tool for internet connection read full post
Knowledge Management is not about publishing
EEK on a Harvard Business review piece about knowledge management and profiling read full post
