Crabgrass advertises itself as “a software libre web application designed for group and network organizing, and tailored to the needs of the global justice movement. Crabgrass is the next generation of social software”.

Arguably games of one sort or another are at the heart of most social networks. Sometimes the games are explicit, like the ma.ny games available on Facebook. Sometimes they are implicit in the social interaction. Feeling smug about having the most friends on Facebook of anyone you actually know would be an example of an implicit game. The one thing all these have in commons is that they are pieces of a larger puzzle. They are party games, not the party itself. From this perspective Kongregate is an interesting experiment.

Radio pirates exploit the FM band to illegally broadcast shows, often from make-shift studios. Ofcom doesn’t like them.

Jutta and I have been talking with Pluti and others recently about the idea of moving some of the technical teaching we do from face-to-face lessons to podcasts. Now Neulio has appeared, offering us both a wide range of existing material and a publishing platform for our own.

There is an article in today’s online Guardian that is entitled “Olympics can help UK rebrand itself”, says new cultural chief. I am surprised that people can still say this kind of stuff with a straight face.