A lot of people are talking about the search aggregator Gada.Be , but it isnt specific to blogs. By Jack Vinson on June 26, 2006 11:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (7) 7 Comment(s) Andrew Mitchell said: Interesting that you choose now to bring up this topic, Jack. Im not sure if the discussion archives are online but you can sign up to the list at http://www.actkm.org You offer some very useful perspectives.

The screencast explains how you can use the photo service flickr to find digital pictures which you may use for your publications, blog or website or whatever. Beth Kanter has made a perfectly clear screencast (explanation supported by visual from your computer screen). You can watch it when you click here .

An interesting alternative for personalised pages (thanks to Chris Addison) is netvibes where you can add more options like flickr photo streams. I had unsubscribed from the yahoo group on communities of practice as I was ploughing through my mails rather than happy to read them (not the best mode for learning). But now I have worked out an aggregating system that works for me with google personalised pages as my RSS reader.

What do you do when you’re not near your Yahoo mailbox, your blog, your flickr account? Choose online services carefully . Kabissa has written about the power of the social web or African Civil Society . "The The social web, also called Web 2.0 by trendsetters, represents a new era of the Internet in which people no longer go on the web expecting to merely access information

On the sidebar of my blog I have the photos labelled with community (see on the right side). I often click on interesting pictures, and many times it was related to a mural. It is now finished. I

Examples include Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music listening habits), and YouTube (video sharing). user base, but a "Brazilian invasion" (Fragoso, 2006) made Orkut the national SNS of Brazil. Anderson, personal communication, February 2, 2006). Anderson, JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d. m., &

I finally started using flickr . I never saw the advantage of uploading my pictures, till I saw the captioner used by Beth . This was more than a month ago, but I kept it in mind, and I kept it in my delicious account tagged by cartoon. This will be my new favorite too

may start using flickr . Picture by Beth Kanter using a picture by Ed. I So far I tried to avoid signing up everywhere... Though I did sign up for the famous Tagovates I found this via the references on my sitemeter - the best feature on my blog to know why I'm blogging! (apart apart from

Still can't upload pictures to my blogposts but I found a workaround by blogging the pictures straight from flick Today is Sinterklaas! I went to see him at the school of my children and we'll celebrate it with presents and poems this afternoon. Last year I have been sinterklaas Originally uploaded by joitske .

Examples of applications that are significantly improved by the existence of context specific social graphs within them are Digg , Flickr , Del.icio.us and Twitter which all don’t require a user to add themselves to the site’s social graph to utilize it’s services but get more valuable once users do. Tweet Some thoughts on retroactive deletion of shared content on Facebook and other social media sites How Googles layoffs and project cancellations are affecting its culture of innovation MIX 09 Conference Panel on Activity Streams and Opening Up Social Networks Some thoughts