Community Practise

Just a quick note to point out the publisher-​​​​sanctioned free PDF avail­able of The Art of Community by Jono Bacon. It’s a guide to building and running online com­munities and social networks. Bacon is the com­munity manager for the Ubuntu oper­ating system, the dom­in­ance

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Everyone a Re-PublisherEveryone a Re-​​Publisher

I’ve produced an exper­i­mental social media news page using Feedly Mixes. You can embed this sort of thing into any site you like.

As you can see, it grabs and mixes up the content from selected RSS feeds – a list of sites covering the subject, as chosen by me. It then ranks the

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Islands in the Stream

Twitter is about the real-​​​​time web; being in the flow. Once you’re fol­lowing more than 100 people, it becomes an entirely dif­ferent exper­i­ence to instant mes­saging or Facebook. It feels like one of those adverts for the Information Superhighway in the 1990s: people and objects and des­tin­a­tions rush by. Sometimes you’ll stop and check in,

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