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Beaten to it

But I supposed I can feel slightly relieved. I’ve mentioned The Programming Project That Will Not Die a couple of times, I think, but I’ve just found a site that does almost exactly what TPPTWND was planned to do. It’s Upcoming.org.
I still think that TPPTWND I’ve still got the project to complete, but [...]

Personal productivity

I’m slowly trying to teach myself to be organised and productive. To those of you who have seen the state of my room, and are now laughing like drains, I can only say a) I said slowly, b) that’s mostly personal detritus, and c) it’s on my to-do list, it’d just not a very [...]

Social Stuff

The Social Software weblog - what it says on the tin.
Annoyingly, one of the first things I discover is planzo.com, a social calendaring tool. Granted, what I’m planning is a bit more than just that, but y’know, bollocks, nonentheless.

Work planning

So, having thought about Mr Coates definition of social software a bit, and had it clatter about in my head with another project, I spent some of the weekend getting started on the resultant idea. Which would be fine, but I seem to be setting myself up for a staggering amount of work.
So, naturally, [...]

On social software

Tom Coates writes as concise a definition of good social software as I’ve seen, and one I want to come back to for Londonlist:

*Every individual should derive value from their contributions
*Every contribution should provide value to their peers as well
*The site or organisation that hosts the service should be able to derive value from the [...]