links for 2011-02-10

Dan Lockton's "Design with intent" toolkit as show at #londonia last night

"Forget going big and sending out mass messages to huge numbers of people. Instead, focus on fighting for every member. Target individual people at a time, persuade them to join your community, take the time to build relationships with them and convert them into active members."

"When I think about the web, it can be overwhelming in its many facets – good and bad. Nevertheless, today the real potential of the web to make life tangibly better is slowly emerging, and with it is our chance as a city and a society to take a big step forward."

I only watched about five minutes of the programme and found very little joy in it at all...

Week notes of a different kind

Whilst I slightly want to file all these types of article in a folder called "Why didn't railway companies invent cars?" it is good to see Comment Is free repeatedly mentioned as being the right response from a news organisation to the 'threat' of a more participatory commentariat.

Opinion in the comments seems to be divided as to whether the PCC really gets SEO, but this does seem to be the most notice they've ever paid to technical web issues.