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Previously (here and here), the subject of creating and broadcasting videos came up.

So, for the benefit of anyone who is interested in making short videos (anything from 20 seconds long) and publishing them for all on the Web, I have gathered a few good resources to get you started: Read more…

www.grokker.com is a search engine that displays the results of your information requests in a very interesting way…

In his excellent blog Semiologic, Denis de Bernard’s recent posting claims that Grokking ‘..is times more powerful that anything Google’s pathetically outperformed search engine will let you do. It deserves the blogosphere’s full attention.’

I agree … Grokking may not be perfect but it’s a step in the right (and for me inevitable) direction, away from linear search results toward a more visually compelling and intuituve data representation.

Aha… this very post that you are reading is proof that Cori is a “news source”. I had recently quoted him as being the source of some news about grassroots media.

He then posted on his site:

I’d never considered myself to be a news source at all. In fact I emailed Prem, the author of the post at dharmasphere about it and he responded promptly (and I mean promptly - like 5 minutes later):

“We’re all news sources these days!”

Wow. That was an eye-opening, paradigm-shifting statement for me.

Read more…

The Election is over.

When I looked at the new UK political map at the BBC, I couldn’t help noticing something…

Is it just me, or is there a Dragon in Wales - bowing its head and unfurling its wings? Take another look… Read more…

Something I’ve just been trying out…

Here is a Category Map of this website. It uses the WordPress Category Map Plugin. Read more…