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Eduspaces R-I-P
The demise of Eduspaces is a real pity as it seemed to be a community with a decent niche and a well established user-base. That said it is a tough thing to make money from and not everyone is Facebook and the team at Curverider have mortgages to pay like most of us I’m sure.…
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Amp’d Conference 2.0
Over the last few months I’ve spent alot of time thinking (and reading ….) about this whole ‘amplified conference’ idea – and especially in the last few weeks its been something of an oasis of web 2.0 fun in a desert of mundane web 1.0 activity! Both Brian Kelly and Andy Powell (sometime together) have…
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The Negative zone..
OK it has been pointed out to me by one or two people that my blog post yesterday might have been a little bit negative! I’m not going to pretend I haven’t been frustrated by elements of my new role but things are slowly improving and its just a case of trying to get in…
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Brave New World? Not really…
Its becoming increasingly apparent to me that I have been living and, more importantly, working in some kind of bubble for the last couple of years. The great leaps forward in the web that I saw happening around me were actually an illusion and they had failed to take hold in the wider public conciousness…
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More eGov ramblings..
No sooner had I finished mulling over the implications of the Power of Information report I wrote about earlier in the week when I came across another eGov/Web 2.0 article – this time from Richard MacManus at the Read/WriteWeb blog (based on a couple of Gartner reports). In this case it is very much a…