Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

Nibbler is a free online tool for testing websites. Give it a URL and it will test five associated pages against a range of criteria. It's still in Alpha, and I haven't looked closely to see how it actually works, but it could be very useful as part of a web developer's toolkit. Visit Nibbler [...]

This appears to be Google's belated answer to StumbleUpon, which has been around for ages. It claims to find cool stuff on the internet based on your interests. I quite like it, but it's bloody hard to find. There was a temporary message in Google Reader shouting 'Try it now!', but that's now gone and [...]

A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing. Visit Web Design Dashboard

I haven’t tried it yet, but this could make the creation of web accessible video much easier: it purports to enable you to add transcripts to your YouTube videos. Thanks to Andy Mabbett for alerting me to it. Visit Easy YouTube caption creator

Anyone who knows me will know how bad I am at making decisions. Not knowing how to choose can result in procrastination, or – worse – avoidance. That's not good for someone who's responsible for managing an organisation's corporate web strategy. Mind Tools has actually been very helpful for me. Although at first glance it [...]

I just stumbled across this mind map that was instigated by Robin Good. It shows people's favourite online collaboration tools for tasks such as file-sharing, drawing, writing, conferencing, reviewing and whiteboarding. Although it was developed collaboratively it doesn't actually seem to be editable by users: shame, but a great resource nonetheless. Visit Best Online Collaboration [...]

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

These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009: Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are [...]

These are my links for 6 January 2009 through 8 January 2009: Vote for Created in Birmingham – Vote now to see Created in Birmingham beat the Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips to Best UK Blog award. Vote for Created in Birmingham to beat Daily Mail blogger! – You should also vote because Created in Birmingham [...]

These are my links for 4 January 2009 through 5 January 2009: Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 – Simply Google: all of Google's services in one place – This is a nice idea, if it really does what it says. Google is so big now and lots of blogs, services and tools that can be [...]