Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Creative Commons in the UK..

    The ReadWriteWeb blog had a post yesterday (?) about the new Creative Commons Case Studies database which I immediately headed off to have a nose at!  It has to be said I don’t think usability was high on the priority list of whoever built this app but as mentioned in the RWW post they have…

  • Wordle fun..

    Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can…

  • Beanbag for Bristol..

    A spate of almost aimless Googling and browsing yesterday (it started with a purpose but sometimes I just get swept away with the journey and forget about the destination!) brought me eventually to a new education based, web 2.0ish, start-up based in Bristol – Beanbag Learning. Now this alone was enough to pique my curiousity…

  • Promoting events using the social web..

    Stephanie Booth recently ran the Going Solo conference for freelancers in the wacky world of the social web and she has documented her experiences of using social web tools and more traditional methods (not least hard work and one-on-one contacts) to promote the event and identifies things she would do differently in the future and…

  • Mind your manners..

    OK this is something that is soooooo old school British its almost laughable but it I think its pretty cool as well.  Debretts, the bible for all things mannered, has released five golden rules for how to behave when using social network sites!  The advice isn’t eactly rocket science but its not as insanely stupid…