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DavePress : Be less boring

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:36:05 +0000

Ah, it has gone from the home page but the direct link still works http://www.scambs.gov.uk/CouncilTaxAndBenefits/Fi...

DavePress : Be less boring

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:28:01 +0000

You're right, it has now been taken down. I hope that is because the consultation had run its course rather than because of this post .

DavePress : 6 days to stop MPs concealing their expenses

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:26:46 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Paul! Too late for me not to look a berk, sadly.

DavePress : The search for shared meaning

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:00:24 +0000

I think this is where my idea of social individualism comes in. The web makes me free to be able to post whatever I want using the medium that I want. I can also find information about whatever I want, down to a really granular level, if I so choose. This can then be made social by the magic of bumping into other people on Google, or in comments, or on Facebook or wherever and enabling some collaboration. I agree with the filter failure idea because people use the infobesity argument as an excuse to do nothing. If people are, instead, shown how to use the tools to reduce the burden of information flow, and on techniques on how to scan and be ambiently aware of what is going on, then they can get involved and make the most of this. I don't think we should be encouraging people not to post stuff, certainly at this early stage.

DavePress : The search for shared meaning

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:42:57 +0000

@Neil - I appreciate that some of the slides are less than illuminating! I guess that's the consultant in me trying to hold a little something back ;-) I hadn't thought of doing this at the Barcamp but I will float the idea on the network. Also, there were a couple of public sector folk at the BCS event who asked if I could come and perform at their places of work, which I'd be happy to do for you too, if you'd think it helpful. I'm also working on some sort of ebook, pamphlet thing which goes through some of these issues. @David - absolutely. My message really is that people have to change to accomodate the new ways in which people want to interact. Librarians are still needed, they just need to do things a little differently. I do think though that this is something that everyone is going to have to 'get' eventually, just as everyone has had to learn how to email, or text (and going further back, use a telephone, etc). 'Roles' is definitely a slide that needs to be added to the slide deck, though ;-)

DavePress : 5 Blogger tools for Mac

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:56:08 +0000

Hi Hilary - try this blog post which is about a year old, but still stands up, I think: http://davepress.net/2008/01/13/a-social-media-so...

DavePress : Dave @ BCS

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:37:45 +0000

Slides! Of course, I knew there was something I had forgotten to do! Will get them on slideshare as soon as they are done!

DavePress : Making Council meetings social

Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:39:39 +0000

Thanks Simon - god knows what intensedebate does with pings - I think I'm going to get rid of it soon. Here's my comment on Simon's blog post that he links to in his comment (is that right?): Thanks for the link Simon and I am pleased that my rather throwaway inspired some creative thinking! I think that things like live streaming of meetings is actually barking up the wrong tree as they don’t help solve the actual problem, which is that the form and process of council business is tricky to understand, and that if I can’t make a meeting, it’s also going to be unlikely that I can make the live stream - being able to view it afterwards is also no help as by then the decisions have been made. You are right to point out that consultative meetings are most appropriate for this, and one suggestion that I have received from a UK local authority is to apply this approach to the planning process, which obvious happens over a longer period of time. This will give people a chance to submit content to the process through social media, whether blogging, highlighting related web pages through bookmarking, sharing photos (which I think would be *very* cool for planning stuff) and video etc. I am writing a quick proposal for how this might work for the authority that got in touch, and I am sure they wouldn’t mind me sharing it with you!

DavePress : IDeA Performance

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:54:52 +0000

Steven - fair enough if the content isn't really your bag! As Ingrid says, though, do please pass the link on to others who might be interested.

NevilleHobson.com : More confidence needed in IntenseDebate

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:19:55 +0000

One other problem with ID is that I don't think the Email subscribe to comments plugin works anymore, which is a shame.

DavePress : TwitterHack

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:17:08 +0000

Meh, damn you open source ad blocking types! I've got a child to feed!!

DavePress : Links and Twitter

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:09:43 +0000

Hi there - that certainly sounds like a great service you've developed. As you say, it will work for some more than others! My issue is that I post more links to twitter than delicious and so for me doing it the other way round works best. Good luck with the site though!

DavePress : Community facilitators

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:08:14 +0000

An email is on its way, Rich!

NevilleHobson.com : More confidence needed in IntenseDebate

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:27:53 +0000

Hi Neville - I installed ID on my blog in the last few days, largely as a result of the positive experience I had with it here! I too had the issue of the rogue comment which I couldn't find in order to moderate with it. After a bit of random clicking though I did manage to track it down - it was obviously a spam comment. I'm not yet upgraded to 2.7 though which may have an effect on this... I wrote a bit about why I'm using ID here.

DavePress : DavePress comments powered by IntenseDebate

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:08:10 +0000

Yeah, it seems to work well. For those that have automatic delicious postings to their blog it might get annoying, but I am sure it is possible to get postalicious to exclude certain tags? The other issue for me would be remembering to do it!

DavePress : Government spends ‘£16m on media monitoring’?

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:06:33 +0000

Hey Jeremy - I think that's the point I was trying (as always, clumsily) to make - using online monitoring won't fill the gap completely but must surely help and could reduce costs a little. As Steph and I seem to be eternally discussing, there still isn't an ideal product that will monitor, aggregate, clean up and filter online content in one go.

NevilleHobson.com : Reporting from the front line at Tesco

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:52:50 +0000

Thanks Neville! Having now downloaded the iPhone app I'll give Audacity a go. I already use Levelator, which is a great app. Sorry, but another question - which audio player plugin do you use? I really like the look of it.