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I have subscribed to GVO’s feeds for a long time.  They are a great resource for finding out what the world thinks about ideas or finding great voices in a given place.  They are now working with researchers to find out how transparency can be leveraged for social change.  This is fantastic as far as we’re concerned and we wish them luck in the research.  An excerpt here.

Last month The Economist published a useful overview of how governments, geeks, and activists are coming together to make politics more transparent, elected officials held more accountable, and citizens more involved in shaping debate and policy. To illustrate their point The Economist pointed readers to the Sunlight Foundation based in Washington DC, Britain’s data.gov.uk, New Zealand’s data.govt.nz and MashupAustralia, a competition organized by Australia’s “Government 2.0 Taskforce” to encourage the development of applications that make effective use of public data to improve governance.

It makes a great deal of sense for The Economist to focus their attention on the US, UK, New Zealand, and Australia; all four countries have relatively high rates of internet penetration and their federal governments have shown a commitment to publishing government data in machine readable format, which can then be analyzed and re-used on websites with interactive visualizations. But what is happening in other countries around the world where, for example, citizens might be more concerned about police bribery than campaign finance reform? Over a three-month period eight researchers and eight research reviewers from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, China, and Central & Eastern Europe will document around 40 case studies of technology projects that aim to promote transparency, accountability, and civic engagement. Every two weeks we will publish an overview of their last eight case studies with the goal of promoting conversation and coming to a deeper understanding of how technology can be used to improve governance in developing democracies.

If you haven’t checked out Cover It Live out of Toronto, check it out here: http://bit.ly/cgGqwf – you have probably seen it used on a  sports site, newspaper site or someplace recently and just didn’t realize it. It’s an awesome tool and no, I don’t have any connection with the company!

Meet The First Miners of the New Social Graph.

Fascinating article on the intersection of real life and social networking at a very high level.

The internet has lit up about Google Buzz.  Not to the extent that it lit up before, during, and after the iPad announcement, but certainly it has lit up.

Generally, here at WSP we are less interested in the actual technology and more interested whether the technology would be helpful to organizations.  It is more interesting to read the “how this could be used” rather than a token run down of features.  Especially for emerging technology which is often a bit more opaque on the “how is this helpful” front.  Techies are often very logical and see things in a particular way, but can be less than stellar at communicating how their technology is useful to real people.

This is why, time and again, the most simple solutions become crowd-sourced as the favorite solutions.  There are many examples of this: facebook beating myspace, the mac’s dominance within certain demographics over windows, and the ipod over everybody else.

Thinking with that design philosophy, I’m not sure whether Google has it correct with Buzz.  I have not seen Buzz in action yet – mainly because I use Outlook rather than Gmail’s web interface.  But the commentary leaves me a bit intrigued.  Here are two highlights which I found particularly helpful.

Louis Gray on How Buzz validates FriendFeed but will Kill it.

TechCrunch post comparing Buzz and Wave.

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Picture Resizer is a batch image processor we couldn’t live without. Drag and drop images onto the executable to resize and adjust quality.

The really cool part is how you configure the image settings: just change the file name.  PhotoResizeW450Q95O.exe resizes images to 450 pixels wide (W450) and saves a JPEG with 95% quality (Q95). A renaming wizzard on the homepage helps create file names for custom settings.

The only thing we’d add is a simple renaming guide available when you double-click the executable.

Hi readers.In this article, i am  introducing  some useful blog tools that you can use to analyse your blog.

1. Peekstat.com . This website provide tools that measure how much your blog/website is worth.It is accurate as it uses various statistics to calculate how much your blog.website is worth.
2. Page-Rank-Calculator.com . This website provide a free service that measure your pagerank in Google.
3. iWebTool . This website provides a wide range of web tools ranging from Google PageRank prediction to Website Speed test.

That’s the end of the article.Hope you enjoy using those web tools.

FREE EASY TOOL MANAGE UR BLOG

Blogging has been very welcoming and interesting nowadays in the modern world , where you as individual able to start up a blog either for your own personal purpose or for other specific reason..

Despite what you reason might be , blogging has been one stop easy access platform where you can have your voice heard and valued with being

Though so, I’ve come across that many other’s have lot’s of passion in blogging under various topic and own more than one blog site but then have difficulty time in updating their post on frequent basis.

Now, what have i come across which I’’ll like to share among those of you who have passion and desire towards blogging but then having difficulty in finding easy way to express their passion without much of hassle.

This is specifically a writing tool which is quit easy and convenient to be used for and available for  free on the site at the moment (I’m not sure about the future ), the tool I’m talking about would be Windows Live Writer. Below would be the screenshot on how would it look like in your screen if you install and start to using it, for your view .

Well, i have been using this tool for a while now, and i found it has been very satisfying and easy to use tool.

You can download this free tool by clicking here or (right click and select open in new tab, if you would like to download and continue read my blog post.)

I’m having this post basically to those out there who used to think, it’s hard to have a blog or managed a blog.., well as in this post i have covered on how to use blogging tool simple, easy and for free, with this , i hope there is many of you out there would give it a shot on start to blog..

Kindly leave me your valuable comments and feedback towards this post.

Regards,

Reena Mathur.