What I’ve been reading

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

• Tales of the city: the rise of the local blog – “In its daily blogposts, Spitalfields Life aims to portray the full colour of life in London’s East End. But who is the mysterious ‘Gentle Author’ behind this extraordinary work of social history?”
• Apache Cordova – “Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.”
• Building Community in your Area? There’s a Handbook for that! – “The Community Organizers Handbook is the one-stop-shop for tips, tricks and how-tos for organizing local communities.”
• User experience design on new.shropshire.gov.uk – Project WIP – “Our aim is to provide the user with best experience we can possibly give them allowing them to do what they want quickly and easily.”
• When is an ‘official’ Twitter account not an official Twitter account? | Puffbox.com – “Much consternation in certain political circles this afternoon, as Boris Johnson renames his Twitter account… and takes a quarter of a million people’s details over to his election campaign HQ.”
• The problem with digital politics – “If the major parties get their act together, the next election could be a very interesting time indeed for technology-watchers.”
• @LiamStacey9 : Tangential Ramblings – “Online hate is a big problem. Children, adults, celebrities and people outside of the public eye are all victims. The trouble is: those that dole out the abuse don’t seem to be the sorts of people who care.”

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

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