Blogs
Now the big upgrade to Movable Type 4 is done, Iām pulling together a strategy to develop our blogs. At the heart of that is slowing down the expansion of them, and upping the quality (or humanely putting down) those we have. And for those of you who are
community
This way of accessing Plurk makes it a different experience for me than Twitter. I have Twitter running all the time, getting updates either through software on my computer, or my mobile phone. Itās firmly in the arena of ambient awareness. Plurk, on the other hand, is somewhere I
community
Today, from 9am, and all day, 3 of our community editors, alongside myĀ colleagueĀ Andrew, our head of user content, will be using CoverItLive [http://www.coveritlive.com/] to talk about their day, what they actually do, and interact with anyone interested. You can follow the dayās proceedings, starting
community
Iāve been experimenting a little more with FriendFeed over the last few days. The fact I can follow my stream in [Thwirl](http://www.twhirl.org/) makes it much easier.The idea of [topic-focused rooms](http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008/05/get-room.html) on the serviceĀ intriguesĀ me, so
Blogs
1. The Closed Space Closed spaces are where your conversations are as private as you want them to be. Dominated the by the social networks (Facebook, Bebo, MySpace) as well as theĀ network-focused blog platforms (Vox, Livejournal), they are as much communication services as publishing platforms. You choose exactly who
community
This is pretty essential viewing, giving people some context on how online communities have developed. And no, itās not just a Web 2.0 thing: [Via [Kristine](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2008/05/your-grandchild.html)] I was trying to work out the other day how long Iā
comments
Those naughty folks at Computer Weeklyās Downtime blog [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/IT-downtime-blog/2008/03/comments-we-love-them-what-do.html] are taking the mickey out of one of my colleagues [http://engagement101.blogspot.com/2008/03/ribbed-for-their-pleasure.html] with this video: Now, I reckon that that theyāre missing the point
blog azeroth
First up: what was the motivation for starting the site?āWell, [Bellwether](http://4haelz.blogspot.com/) was lamenting the fact that she and I kept writing about similar things and wished there were a way for druids to get together and talk once a monthā¦ I figured that gettng together
abuse
For an opening session focusing on eeeevil on the web, it proved to be rather quiet. I think everybody was knackered, thanks to the early startā¦ Laurent Haug [http://www.liftlab.com/laurent/] of LIFT [http://www.liftconference.com/] kicked things off by asking if there is a thirst for
commenters
Techcrunch UK highlights some emerging companies that are attempting to build blog comments into something more of a community feature [http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/suddenly-blog-comments-is-a-hot-space/]. Six Apart are working on a community solution for Movable Type [http://www.movabletype.com/products/community-solution.html]. Thereās something interesting
commenters
IĀ quite enjoyed the original ābusiness meeting as internet discussion thread [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771556]ā video that was doing the rounds some weeks ago. I just discovered that thereās a follow-up which is even funnier. **Warning: **Not safe for work, unless your work is happy with swearing
community
My, my. Information moves so smoothly around big businessesā¦ I learn from Munir [http://www.thebloggingjournalist.com/2007/08/how-uks-farmers.html] that Isabel, the community editor of one of our titles, Farmers Weekly, features in Press Gazetteās My Week [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=6&