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Playing with Posterous
Posterous got Techcrunched over the weekend and it sounded pretty interesting so I had a bit of a play with it and have to admit I was impressed. Posterous is the latest entry into the micoblogging world but its real beauty is in its simplicity. It has the easiest signup procedure I’ve ever encountered and…
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WordCamp UK
WordCamp UK – an unconference for users and fans of WordPress – takes place in Birmingham on the 19th and 20th of July. It looks like it should be a good event with support from Automattic (developers of WordPress) and some pretty innovative UK users of the (more than a) blog software. After dissapointingly realising…
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Events 2.0 roundup..
I’ve read a few interesting bits and pieces the last week or two about events again so I thought I’d just put together a quick post covering them. Tony at Crowdvine has written an interesting post on the Crowdvine blog about adding an unconference element to an existing event which is something I think is…
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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…
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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…