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I keep telling people how my life has altered since using Twitter, even though I’m well aware of how sad that sounds. The thing is it’s not really about Twitter at all, but about people: all Twitter did was help me find them. This post will appear particularly self-indulgent: it’s trying to articulate something that [...]

Excellent post by Tim Davies. He argues that when it comes to governments and large organisations engaging with technology for social change, there is not one big challenge but lots of little ones; and that as those multiply, the ability to engage effectively shrinks. He then lists 50 key challenges that he's encountered so far this year: so now we know they exist we can do something about them; and – hopefully – improve the chances of technology to support social change effectively.

Visit OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles

With so much of people’s conversations and personalities now available for everyone to see, is there a responsibility on us as users of social media to keep an eye out for others? If the answer is ‘yes’ – as I should hope it is – does that mean that we should also learn to see [...]

Ok, I’ve finally decided I may as well publish my Twitter mosaic; only because the look pretty, mind. (Mosaics were correct at the time of writing.) Friends These are the profiles which I find interesting enough to follow: Followers And these are all the folk who – for reasons known only to themselves – are [...]

For a long time I had no way of knowing who to ask specific technical questions of, and now – thanks to the power of social media – I suddenly know loads of people on whose expertise I can call. The trouble is, when does the relationship become professional and require a financial commitment? This [...]

Right, this is the very last time I respond to a meme – chain letter, whatever you call it – on this. I wrote Seven things you may not know about me, and thought that was it. Now Ellie Lovell has gone and tagged me with one that requires twenty five items. So here, sort [...]

These are my links for 11 February 2009 from 12:40 to 12:40

These are my links for 4 February 2009 from 13:41 to 13:41

The internet can be great for supporting and developing friendships, but it doesn’t create them by itself. It’s simply a tool: we use it to support the things we want to do in our lives, which include offline as well as online activity. Friendships may be part of that. Pete Ashton recently wrote about how [...]

These are my links for 29 January 2009 from 09:00 to 09:00