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May 6, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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

March 16, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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 [...]

March 13, 2009 at 9:47 pm
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 [...]

March 10, 2009 at 11:22 am
The Times Labs have joined the ranks of those pushing Twitter to its limits. It's tweeting the entirety of Romeo and Juliet over the next month: with cats. There are 15 accounts – one for each of the main characters – and a line from the play is tweeted every 15 minutes.

Good to see that the same paper which throws scorn upon Twitter is testing it with such intellectual rigour. Not.

Visit Wherefore art Romeo and Juliet on Twitter?

March 4, 2009 at 9:20 am
Explaining to the uninitiated why web feeds are useful is something a lot of us find hard to do. So here I’ve attempted to draw an analogy: with fish. I’m not actually going to try and explain what RSS is (or equivalents such as Atom), because it’s a bit technical and has a confusing history [...]

February 1, 2009 at 7:41 am
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 [...]