Google: ten golden rules. These all make perfect sense. In terms of building a product, I think the most important is easily eat your own dog food. In other words, use your own product. Not just test it, but actually use it, in the way you want your users to
Here's a genuinely useful application of RSS that puts you in touch with how your country is run. US citizens: here's a list of the members of the House as provided by the Washington Post. Click on one and you get their voting record - plus
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Sitting on my desk is a call for entries to the 2005 Webby Awards, which will be announced on December 16th. According to the neon quotes blazing across the flyer, these are "the online Oscars", "the index of success in the global new media scene"; an
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For all those who know what to do with this, Elgg at long last has a working Subversion repository! We've enabled anonymous read access, so anyone can get the latest version of the code. The address is svn:// elgg.net/devel/.
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Speaking of mainstream blogging, I should have mentioned. There's some buzz about Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, creating a new, citizen-based news medium. He spoke about it at the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event at Sa
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Elgg is shortlisted under 'most innovative edublogging project, service or programme' for the 2005 Edublog Awards. Thanks to everyone who nominated us - Dave and I didn't nominate ourselves, so it's someone out there. We don't see Elgg as a blogging platform,
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The BBC has started weblogging. Although the feedback we receive is overwhelmingly positive, I still get criticisms that the medium is for teenagers and slackers, and has no use in a knowledge-sharing environment. One critic even suggested that incorporating blogging and similar technologies was "riding a hype wave"
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I'm pleased to announce that we now have a mailing list for Elgg development. We request that discussion is limited to programming and architecture issues (as opposed to feature requests and non-technical discussion); there may be a mailing list for those issues in the future. To sign up,
Sometimes it's good to put the keyboard down and get away from the computer for a couple of days, particularly after some weeks of heavy use. As much as the digital world helps to bring people together and simplifies tasks that would otherwise be near-impossible, I often find
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Eye Level: the Smithsonian's first blog. Does anyone know of any other museum blogs?
Lately I've been doing all my Elgg posting in w.bloggar, a small Windows client that sits in my taskbar next to the system clock. It's not that the Elgg interface is in any way bad (although I would say that); however, being able to post
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Why Wikipedia isn't always a great research tool.