Just a few shorts here, none of which are really worthy of a blog post in their own right, but I thought that if I stuck three of them together it might just about pass muster. So here goes.
Pointless Twittery Thing #1: Cursebird
Yes, thanks to Cursebird you can now see exactly how much you swear [...]

This one, more fully titled “Losing Control: why people will say what they want about you anyway” was presented by Al Smith (@alncl) of Newcastle City Council.
At this point I must also remember to thank Goss Interactive, who have a very useful habit of providing pens and notepads at these events. Anyway, after that [...]

Carl Haggerty (@carlhaggerty) was on immediately following the Browsealoud chap to talk to us about how to go about unblocking access to web 2.0 sites and developing appropriate policies around them.
Some of this information can also be found in Carl’s blog post 1 rule and 6 steps to embracing social media in local government, [...]

I wasn’t first up at the PSFBuzz event, but since there were some ahem minor technical hitches with my presentation (somewhat owing to the fact that the internet connection didn’t actually connect to the internet, which is a bit of a drawback as far as internet connections go), I wanted to get a blog version [...]

The Powers That Be™ have produced an official UK Citizenship Practice Test to see if you’re knowledgeable enough about the UK to be able to become a UK citizen. Unfortunately, there are one or two problems with it: someone a little more unkind than me (oh, okay, me) might wish to dub it the ‘Citizenshit [...]

Password masking. You all know what it is, right?
It’s when you type in your password, and instead of “shearer9″ or, if you’re feeling particularly security conscious “p@55w0rd”, but all you see is either •••••••• or ******** depending on what you’re using.
This of course prevents The Hooded Claw from being able to read your password over [...]

For my second social media session in a row (there were generally four or five sessions going on at any one time so you had to pick the ones that were either most interesting or most relevant to yourself), Ingrid Koehler (@IngridK) led us through how, and what, Councillors should be doing with social media, [...]

If wanting to encourage people and websites to opt out of Phorm, if wanting to stop any and every incidence of business intercepting my traffic across the internet in order to make money means that I am a ‘privacy pirate’ (see previous post), then it’s a label I am delighted to wear.

Conditions for re-use:

If you [...]

Phorm have set up a website to battle those people who it perceives as people who are against it, which it has begun by smearing these people as ‘privacy pirates’.
Over the last year Phorm has been the subject of a smear campaign orchestrated by a small but dedicated band of online “privacy pirates” who [...]

My attention was drawn to a site called Stockholm Gamla Stan (Stockholm Old Town). The site is available in both English and Swedish, and has the ambition:
…to give you as a guest and visitor all the necessary information about the Old Town in StockholmStockholmgamlastan: Welcome to StockholmOldTown
All very laudable. But unfortunately if you try to [...]