I’m not that keen on git (for mostly aesthetic reasons although I suspect I’ll have to get over this soon), and github makes me jump through a couple of hoops too many to get up and running for the first time, but those aren’t th...

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Social networking sites and functionalities are a means to an end. Personally, I want to use a social network to describe, filter and prioritise information in an aggregator (or, if you like, a “Digital Lifestyle Aggregator”). Boris Mann has written Distributed Social Networking a nice speculative piece...

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I’d like to be able to talk in glowing terms about peopleaggregator.com – it has noble ideals and seems to be A Good Idea. I think they have some bugs to work on though – on first import, it thought I was Ben Hammersely (a fact which, I can assure you, as can Ben, is untrue).

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Marc Canter: Getting FOAFy Marc now includes links to the FOAF explorer and “Add me to your FOAF file” links as well as one to his plain FOAF file. Something for me to pick up on too, I think.

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