TheWayoftheWeb

Here’s a good example of changing the way we do things, by the always interesting Neil Perkin at Only Dead Fish, from an idea by the also always interesting Herdmeister. And like most good ideas, it’s blindingly obvious when you see someone else do it!
Basically Neil was due to present at a conference on the [...]

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There’s already a lot of commentary on the fact that Nine Inch Nails topped Amazon MP3 Album sales for 2008, despite the fact the first nine tracks of the  album had already been released by the band for free under a Creative Commons licence.
And the fact that vinyl album sales doubled in 2008, hitting a [...]

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Despite a very kind email from the author, Rich Millington, I’ve been a bit remiss in not posting about his Online Community Building Manifesto (link to the PDF). (As a bonus, he’s also on Twitter).
It’s a call to change the way we think about online communities, and one that’s shared by a few people, myself [...]

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You may have spotted an interesting new widget on the right side of the site, under the search box. And you’d probably have spotted it’s an example of Google Friend Connect, released into the wild!
If you haven’t heard about Google and Facebooks rival attempts to provide a way to carry a single identity around the [...]

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