January 9th, 2009
There may be a few issues with the reliability of entries on Wikipedia, but even so its surely so much better that it continues to exist and be improved upon. Here’s a recent article from The Register – through public donations Wikipedia’s future is guaranteed for more than a year.
December 10th, 2008
with christmas approaching fast – Drew McLellan is back with his advent calendar for geeks :)
? 24ways.org
December 9th, 2008
Focusing on User Centered Design (UCD) methodology with the angle of getting users of different abilities involved into the design process – this free online book is not another W3C document with code references and guidelines. The author Shawn Lawton Henry from W3C wrote this self-published book to highlight the overall design process, including users early on, working with personae, evaluation and testing and more.
December 9th, 2008
This is to let you know about a new website that’s a bit like Planning Alerts.
StreetWire is like PlanningAlerts for every kind of local information.
As well as planning applications, it will tell you about licensing
applications, crime, events and local news near you.
You can also share news with your neighbours, so if you know some little
titbit of local news, or want to tell people about an event, it helps
connect you with your local community.
You can sign-up here
It was released in beta-testing mode on Sunday 7th December. We hope you find this useful. It would be really great to hear what you think of it, and what sort of information you’d like to see.
December 9th, 2008
One of the three botnets cut off by the shutdown of rogue ISP McColo is back in business. The Mega-D botnet is back on its feet and throwing off huge volumes of spam…
The Register 08-12-08
December 2nd, 2008
A call for action for all interested parties by the BSI Group – you are invited to view and comment on the new draft proposed Code of Practice, to quote the site:
BSI British Standards is inviting all interested parties, and in particular marketing professionals and disabled web users, to review and comment on the draft of a new standard on accessible websites. DPC BS 8878 Web accessibility – Building accessible experiences for disabled people – Code of Practice is applicable to all public and private organizations wishing to offer accessible, usable websites to their customers.
December 2nd, 2008
SOCIAL INNOVATION CAMP is an experiment in using social technology for social change taking place here at the Young Foundation. At the moment, we’re especially looking for:
* front-end designers
* user experience/user interface designers
* people with CSS/html skills
* super-creative types who like building interesting and imaginative branding and marketing campaigns
November 14th, 2008
Friday 28 November 10:00am-4.00pm at LVSC, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
with Paula Graham from Fossbox and other invited speakers
(Fossbox is East London CVS Network e-development project)
Did you know there are high-quality, free alternatives to email, office, graphics, project management, web-editing, multimedia and many more types of software ? and even the entire Desktop itself?
The open day will offer:
We will also be giving away free CDs with open office, graphics, web and
project management software for Windows with illustrated tutorials
and free desktop demo and installation CDs
More info @ Cascade website
Some cKers will be there
November 10th, 2008
Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5million e-mails they send, finds a study. By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer…
from bbc news
September 6th, 2008
To all our friends out there, here are the details:
The Common Knowledge Barbecue is on Friday September
19th starting at about 5 – in case you want to pop in on the way home from
work for a drink – but grilling from 6.30.
So hope you can come. Feel free to bring a bottle or something a bit tasteful for grilling on the BBQ although neither is absolutely mandatory. Hope to see you there.
