blast from the past. nice pointers on community cohesion.

via jem - quite. amidst all the bruhaha of the cool web apps there's a whole world of useful, solid and good stuff out there.

discussion and community forum for issuing complaints and suggesting improvements for london's transport network. hey! how about the other 90% of the country's population?!

For reference. A good list of sites that are doing cool stuff with government data, includes stuff for councils.

computer games drives ties or the other way round? no strong evidence either way...

Reputation systems can build community inside social games - Tracking the convergence of games and social networks

uris, protospimes and ultimately what this is all about which is hangers for stories but the bits and bobs we ascribe to things... life!

Again, hyperbole, but interesting hyperbole nonetheless. Actually the key things here are how C gen negotiate public and private and also their role in peer group situations.

4 concepts for game design. all seems a tad dry.

James Wallis slatest ARGs. ARG fatigue. There's too many of them, too many to demand your attention and they are no longer mysterious. Still driven by a small hardcore of players. How do you make your ARG stand out from the crowd?

Good intro to Twitter by the Guardian. They predict that Twitter is on the verge of cracking the mainstream British market. Loads of useful links here for Twitter-mashups, services and general bi-products.

Aleks Krotoski "To suggests that interaction in virtual worlds is somehow inferior to physically proximate interaction is to take a very backwards point of view." Interesting debate.

revisiting some of matt's work. "The internet sensibility is infecting the world of physical stuff." could also be said that the reverse is happening with some UI and interaction models.

game to categorise things which i've only just stumbled upon...

New UK based, not for profit UX society.