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Few people can resist talking about end-of-year favourites — bloggers especially. Since a lot of us are already going to be posting our picks we might as well try to aggregate them into one stream for everyone to admire together. It’s the holiday season, after all. It’ll be pretty easy — as long as people [...]

Community is Here Today

by Brian on 12-02-2009

in civics,london,web

Last week when I read Titus Ferguson’s post about the fact “‘social’ is in ‘social media’ for a reason,” I was reminded of Dan Brown’s column at LFPress.com about how his blog has led to offline friendships. I can relate. Since I started actively engaging people on Twitter a year ago my little bubble has exploded. I [...]

Ldn Reading Group Update

by Brian on 10-12-2009

in london

Regarding the reading group, Titus and I chatted briefly at gdldn (last week was pretty chaotic for pulling people together), just enough to touch base but there are still some specifics to figure out, starting with: when? where? what? As goes without saying, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome. I’m probably more flexible than [...]

Last week there were a couple of remarks on Twitter about Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody and within an hour or so we had a handful of people interested in doing some sort of book club. So far 9 people have signed up for the group at Goodreads. It’s open to anyone in the London [...]

#gdldn+

by Brian on 05-07-2009

in education,london,media

Made a rare public sortie a few hours ago for a meetup of London bloggers, podcasters, and developers; a good opportunity to connect and soak up the conversation of people who are way ahead of me. It also gave me a good excuse to work a little harder on organizing and presenting my web presence. Hopefully I can keep the [...]