Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/15/the-semantic-web-is-automatons/ A lot has been said over the past few years about the semantic web, which is a way of assigning machine-readable meaning to information on the Internet. In theory, were this to work and be widely used, the benefits to search and research
This is something of an aside. For a while now I've had an idea for a game system, which is extensible enough to have uses in education, but would also have uses elsewhere. I haven't really played games since the demise of the LucasArts SCUMM adventures
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/14/websites-for-the-third-world-placebo-or-instrument-of-change/ Shailaja Neelakantan holds forth on a recent headline that an Indian village has ‘uploaded itself’ to the Internet. Translation: it got a website. Which is all very well, but does it have an Internet connection, or medical facilities, or the aid it needs
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/14/youtube-the-napster-of-video-or-the-shape-of-things-to-come/ John C. Dvorak thinks we’re all missing the point about Youtube. There certainly have been a lot of naysayers in the industry, and it’s been observed that there’s a lot of copyright material on the site, leading it to be
As much as I hate to admit it, Live Writer could actually be a very useful tool for beginners to weblogs. It's got a nice, simple
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Elgg 0.65 left the building on Friday; as ever, head over to Elgg.org for all Elgg software-related resources. There are a ton of improvements in this one, including better internationalisation support, the filters you see on the Elgg.net all weblogs page and more. For interested developers, there&
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Following Steve O'Hear's earlier post on E-learning 2.0, he's again contributed to Read/Write Web, this time with an article entirely devoted to Elgg. Dave: Click here to read the full entry.
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/is-flock-right/ Richard MacManus has an interesting interview with Flock’s co-founder Geoffrey Arone over at ZDnet. This is worth a listen, and Richard asks some pertinent questions. Geoffrey’s product adds photos, search, news, blogging and favourites to the open source Mozilla framework, throws
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/the-mystery-of-the-online-community/ John C. Dvorak is on the case in PC Magazine, wondering if there’s a hard and fast way to prevent the “fakes and vandals” from ruining online communities. Other systems such as Metafilter are also information-driven, but users generally need to be
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/10/no-moblogging-is-not-the-future/ This evening’s GigaOm headline: SixApart bets that future is MoBlogging. Actually, I’m pretty sure they’re betting on no such thing - or at least, they’d better not be, because the future isn’t moblogging at all. Moblogging is the
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Dave's already written about it, but because I'm totally psyched - that's a technical term - about the project, I thought I'd also put down a few words. Elgg Spaces will be a turnkey solution that allows anyone to sign up and,
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/09/wikiality-the-revolution-will-not-be-verified/ There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over at Wikipedia about the satirist Stephen Colbert. In an item on his Colbert Report show last week, he coined the term wikiality - a wiki take on reality, that anyone can edit. In an