When if at all, will Google+ allow people to add their own RSS feeds?Friendfeed took off when rooms were added, harnessing the power of the so-called social interest graph, but it started to lose appeal again when they allowed the automated inclusion of rss feeds into those rooms by the room owners, slowly drowning out the interesting and genuine conversations.Facebook allows the automated inclusion of feeds via 3rd party apps, but between the Facebook users and Facebook themselves, they have managed to deprecate content from feeds so that original content and human shares take priority over feeds.Now some Google+ users are clamouring for the ability to be able to add their own streams from elsewhere directly into their own circles, which would amount to the same mistake as Friendfeed made. But Google+ hasn’t even enabled some kind of groups, rooms or interests yet, either because they still don’t understand the dynamics of social networks, or because they are rolling out such features in waves, and this one hasn’t arrived yet.Google’s record with groups isn’t a good one. They bought Dejanews, the web interface for usenet newsgroups, one of the original computer facilitated social networks, and did nothing much with it for nearly a decade. Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blogWhen will Google+ allow people to add their own feeds?Related posts:Friendfeed for microblogging – a screencast videoReclaim your lifestream feeds with SweetCron softwareFriendfeed and Social Objects
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When will Google+ allow people to add their own feeds?
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July 7 2011, 1:21pm | Comments »
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Google+ Asymmetric Sharing
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Ross Mayfield attempts to explain the features benefits and disadvantages of the asymmetric sharing model used by the new Google+ network. Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by @ross View more presentations from Ross MayfieldView more presentations from Ross MayfieldI’m beginning to feel that Google+ is going to become a step up for those who prefer networks, but a further departure for those who prefer groups. It all depends what features they bring in later.My own profile is at http://gplus.to/andyroberts using the vanity url creator at http://gplus.to/Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blogGoogle+ Asymmetric SharingRelated posts:Google+ for MobileGoogle cheat sheet – embedded pdf viewer from edocrSearchWiki from Google is LIVE
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July 5 2011, 5:19am | Comments »
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Tapping into online communities can help councils engage with citizens
Be it on Twitter, Facebook or Linked In, online communities are dominating the conversation and government just needs to get out of the way.
This article titled “Tapping into online communities can help councils engage with citizens” was written by Louise Kidney, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 28th March 2011 08.00 UTC Of all the rumours floating around local government this year, my favourite is that the localism bill introduction in the House of Commons was delayed because nobody could agree on the definition of “community”. A lot of people are interested in defining community at the moment, not just the coalition. The RSA is currently running a project examining the notion of a connected community in real space within the New Cross Gate area – mapping how people interrelate in their everyday lives whether through membership of special interest groups or in gyms. Facebook recently mapped their entire user base and how they interrelate – creating an image that reveals humanity’s need both to connect but also to migrate in all its global glory. We are fascinated with community. Mapping existing connections within a community might seem pointless, until you consider that this might be where the proof of the pudding is for a multicultural society. The truth is, until you ask the question and map a community, how it exists currently and came to be that way, you cannot find the reason or motivation for the cohesion that exists within it, nor transfer that anywhere else. Until you identify who goes to which mosque but also the gym next to it, and identify that that person who attends both is a hub and an influencer, how can you know who the people are who you should be targeting to attend your local neighbourhood meetings? If you engage with the influencers, your message will be passed by word of mouth – but you must identify them first. Even Facebook, a community in a digital space – or rather a collision of a series of friendship circles and communities all interacting and merging – has influencers. Most people, according to research, have about 150 people listed as friends on Facebook – but some have more, and they are the people who we assume cross over groups – the people who link groups, the people who work a room with ease at parties who transfer those networking skills across to the digital world. Again, if you want to get a digital community on board, get them behind your message, or, for example, behind your community clean up – identify the digital influencer in the geographical location you are targeting. Communities can be enormously useful, and these are just a few examples of how. But how do you identify a community that you can’t see – one which exists in a space which allegedly has no borders? And how do you quantify the value of a digital community, surely it’s just a load of people sitting around chatting? Not quite. Wikipedia defines a virtual community as ‘a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographic and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.’ Sometimes it’s obvious that these communities exist online – take a look at any Facebook page on a common interest issue, be that a local issue or a band, and you will see there is a community – a collection of individuals with a commonality. But those links are not always so defined – local government has a community but that community sprawls across many digital networks, from the Communities of Practice to Twitter on the #localgov tag. There is a small article buried as a reference in the Wikipedia article on virtual community. PBS Teachers, an educators’ community over in the US, published a report on understanding the impact of online communities on civic engagement. The figures speak for themselves. 65% of online community members have involvement in civic affairs since becoming members, 44% are more involved in social activism. Instead of frantic typing and little else, it seems that becoming part of a community empowers and motivates people to transfer the feeling of belonging to a community into the real world to effect real, tangible community driven change. The lesson here, perhaps, is that just because something is digital does not mean it has no value in real world. It appears to act as an enabler, and for the RSA and others as an identifier, not an inhibitor. Louise Kidney works in the communications team at Blackburn with Darwen borough council and blogs at ashinyworld.blogspot.com This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. Join the local government network for more like this direct to your inbox.
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March 28 2011, 4:08pm | Comments »
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Podcast #35 – Lizzy B’s Session and The Streets of Paris
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The Live Session from Lizzy B’s acoustic night at the Essex Arms Brentwood takes up most of podcast #35 with one new song written for the Songwriters Circle challenge appended. There wasn’t a live podcast on livestream this week, so it was handy that I had these tracks almost ready to go. Here’s the player, link and download :
Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 28.8 Mb in size, playtime 29 minutes 54 seconds :- 35 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 35.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #35 Shownotes The first 4 songs were recorded at Lizzy B’s Acoustic Sessions in Brentwood, Essex I also mentioned the Andy Roberts interview for The Lost Folk Tapes The last song, was a contribution to the Songwriters Circle WK 2 Challenge
Mazet – Andy Roberts Migration – Andy Roberts The Last Subway Home – Andy Roberts Grow Fins – Captain Beefheart The Streets of Paris – Andy Roberts
The Streets of Paris The Streets of Paris by andyroberts
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March 2 2011, 10:12am | Comments »
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Two New Songs in Podcast #33
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There are two new songs in Andy Roberts acoustic guitar podcast episode 33, one of which is a collaboration with fellow Songwriters Circle member Daryl P Hall. Here’s the link and stuff:
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Time for the music – Andy Roberts The Nutmeg Tree – Andy Roberts When The Waters Rise – Andy Roberts Never Was To Be – Daryl Hall & Andy Roberts Blue – Andy Roberts Work Is Done – Andy Roberts
Work is Done appears here as the first ever recording of the song. The lyrics were originally written as text messages saved on a mobile phone while out walking in the French Pyrenees.
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February 16 2011, 9:52am | Comments »
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February 3 2011, 9:38am | Comments »
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Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcasts #30
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Episode 30 of the Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcasts is again well within the 30 minutes maximum length with about five minutes spare, editing down to 24 minutes 43 seconds and only 23.7 megabytes. There are 5 songs performed standing up again, and the creaking floorboards are still with us. It was good to have some conversation going in the chat this week, thanks to one or two people drifting across from The Songwriters Circle Here’s the web player, download link, tracklist and show notes for Podcast Episode 30:
Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url: http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 from this link 30 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 30.mp3 Episode 30 Acoustic Guitar Podcasts Show Notes Show notes and information for Andy Roberts Acoustic Guitar Podcasts Episode 30 broadcast on January 25th 2011, published on January 26th 2011. 1) Wrecked Again Words and Music by Michael Chapman 2) Postcards From Scarborough Words and Music by Michael Chapman 3) Waiting – Andy Roberts Words and Music by Andy Roberts 4) Back In The Field – Andy Roberts 5) Yellow Boat – Andy Roberts
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January 26 2011, 2:30am | Comments »
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Podcast Episode 27 – New Year 2011
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Podcast Episode 27 Episode 27 is the first Andy Roberts music podcast for the year 2011. Happy New Year! Right at the end of the podcast, I mentioned the January Songwriters Circle Challenge so here’s the link for that: http://songwriterscircle.co.uk Back to Episode 27 and the shownotes: Links, play, download
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The Dream is Over – Andy Roberts The Nutmeg Tree – Andy Roberts Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell Cajun Cooking – Andy Roberts Back in The Field – Andy Roberts
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January 5 2011, 5:37am | Comments »
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No Weekend Engineering Works
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2010/06/28/no-weekend-engineering-works
Such is the routine nature of weekend engineering works ruining any prospect of going out around London on the public transport system that when they have a rare weekend without any engineering works on this particular line, National Express to Liverpool Street Station, they need to make a poster about it in order to remind people that there might just be some transport available. Otherwise everybody would just assume that weekend trips are more trouble than they are worth and stay at home. weekend engineering works Of course once you get into Liverpool St Station on one of these rare weekend trains, there’s no guarantee that the onward journey will be as smooth. The Circle line, District and Hammersmith and City lines are likely to be severely disrupted or not running at all so that leaves the Central Line or “London Sauna” as better described.
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