Category Archives: Social software

My Jotspot’s (now) moved to Google

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I blogged in November 2006 that Google had bought the Jotspot wiki. Well, today I’ve completed the migration of my wiki to Google Sites, read more from Google here. There were no hitches, and it’s great I have a personal wiki on the same platform as Gmail. Thanks Google, as there are some great benefits:

  • Unprecedented scalability and availability
  • Significant improvements in performance
  • Unlimited pages for no cost
  • When used with Google Apps
  • Unlimited wiki creation
  • Significant increases in free storage
  • Improvements in wysiwyg editing
  • Improvements in ease of use
  • Tight integration with a product suite which includes enterprise class calendars, spreadsheets, video hosting, presentations, and documents
  • Internationalization support (38 languages)
  • Improved configuration over the site and page layout.

Twitterers are hair-trigger communicators?

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Criticisms of the value of Twitter post-Mumbai from the Independent’s Tom Sutcliffe:

“Twitterers are hair-trigger communicators, and presumably absolutely itching to get something of substance into their despatches. Whereas a journalist has a reasonably strong incentive not to broadcast misleading or dubious information, because such an eventuality would come with a professional cost, a Twitterer owes no duty except to their own impressions and their own state of mind. They’ll pass on rumour as readily as fact, and there’s absolutely no way of telling which is which.”

As someone who has been a journalist and is now a Twitterer this piece from Tom Sutcliffe is certainly worth a look. Fact is though journalists have their own form of built-in bias, of a more sophisticated sort no doubt.