I work in web and social network strategy, member website management and e-mail marketing. Like any professional in the web industry I try to stay up-to-date with trends and technology and all the latest developments.
- kevinbeynon: Collecta - a real-time search engine that updates your results as the information on the web changes. Worth a quick try: http://collecta.com
- kevinbeynon: A brief article on why a Social Media Policy is so important - from Notes for Non-Profits: http://tinyurl.com/nwxscf
- kevinbeynon: Why open formats (even programming languages) are so important to innovation and reduced business risk - from The Register: http://lo87o.tk
- kevinbeynon: Good news for Open-Source Government on the e-petition site, as long as it's not just hot air: http://amooj.tk
- kevinbeynon: Bandwidth and Business. We're stuck with a couple of meg when the sky should be the limit for bandwidth - from The Register: http://v8rf8.tk
- kevinbeynon: Bye-bye email - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 http://bit.ly/13u3Sm
- kevinbeynon: Broken down on the M1 with James and Russell. Raining and hungry. This is some crappy roadtrip!
- kevinbeynon: 9 Crucial UI Features of Social Media and Networking Sites; and they're all so simple to do - from Smashing Magazine: http://tinyurl.co ...
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When Pinochet's military overthrew the Chilean government 30 years ago, they discovered a revolutionary communication system, a 'socialist internet' connecting the whole country. Its creator? An eccentric scientist from Surrey. The forgotten story of Stafford Beer. - Time to update that firewall
The Times Online has an article about new powers police have been given to access home PCs.Police set to step up hacking of home PCs - A very considered response from the ETA
The following is a really good response, from the Environmental Transport Agency, to my earlier post regarding carbon offsetting."Dear Mr Beynon I agree with much of what you say in your blog; carbon offsetting is highly flawed – particularly when it involves planting trees. As you know, ...