Worthing Library hack

Very briefly, West Sussex County Council and FutureGov are hacking the library in Worthing next month.

I’ve written a bit about it on the Adur and Worthing Councils digital blog, in case you’re interested.

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to:

• Social media record keeping for government – is it necessary? | Digital democracy, news, thinking, tips & tricks
• Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It
• 10 Visual Steps To Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon – ReadWrite
• How To Self-Publish A Bestseller: Publishing 3.0
• The future of programming
• Libraries and makerspaces join up in DC, Chicago – Boing Boing
• Exhibit – Publishing Framework for Data-Rich Interactive Web Pages
• 4 Reasons Why You Should Host a Social Media Surgery in Your Community
• The paranoid #! Security Guide (linux)
• Why mobile web apps are slow | Sealed Abstract

What I’ve been reading

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

• Can digital save our libraries? « corrinnedouglas – Some useful thoughts on an important topic
• Google Sites – Mobile Templates – Interesting tool for making mobile friendly site templates.
• Patch, the hyperlocal website from AOL, is totally off-putting – "Is it too late in the game to call hyperlocal efforts a complete waste of time and resources?" – No, just confirmation of my feeling that centrally imposed platforms don't work locally.
• Ten ways to create a knowledge ecology – Nice list from Euan Semple on how to make your organisation one that values knowledge and learning.
• Epic Idea Management #Fails – Things to avoid when sourcing ideas from James Gardner.

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

Bookmarks for April 25th through April 30th

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

• More plugins for securing your WordPress install – Useful guide for making WP a bit more impregnable.
• Introducing the Hybrid Organisation –
• Hacking UK Politics with IBM Middleware: open data, mashups, and uh… WebSphere – Cool looking mashup by guys at IBM described by James Governor
• CIOs Brainstorm About Government 2.0: Good Ideas But Not Bold Enough – "So, why do government people insist to “build something” with web 2.0 rather than realizing that in most cases people self-organize and select the channel they want to use or the community they want to belong to? Why do they focus so much on “citizens” and so little on “employees”?"
• Government Online | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project – Interesting statistics from the US on general e-government stuff.
• W3 Total Cache – "The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. "
• Social on the Outside needs Social Business on the Inside :: Blog :: Headshift – "The focus of my talk was the idea that hanging shiny social media baubles on the cold, hard external walls of a corporate organisation runs the risk of creating a false brand promise unless this work has strong internal underpinnings in the form of social business structures that can do something about the noise, insights and feedback that outbound communications generate."
• Web 2.0 training materials – A fantastic resource from the Scottish Government Library Services. Great material, and a wonderful example of sharing.
• CASE STUDY: How Walsall museum is cooler than Ben Stiller – More great work and great blogging from Dan Slee and Walsall Council.
• WW2History.com – Launching 4th May, 2010 – "A multimedia resource on the most devastating conflict in history, brought to you by award winning historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees."

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.