Toys in the Attic http://chrishutchison.org/web2 Notes from Chris's Lab in the Loft Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 FLOSS & Web 2.0 : a directory http://chrishutchison.org/web2/2006/01/31/begin/ http://chrishutchison.org/web2/2006/01/31/begin/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:14:25 +0000 Chris The chances are that no matter how often you come back to this ‘home’ page you’ll never see anything other than this first posting. There’s a good reason for this: “Toys in the Attic” is really intended as no more than a directory of Web 2.0 and FLOSS resources that otherwise would be cluttering up my bookmark.html file. A personal mnemonic I’m sharing with others, if you like, with every page perpetually “under construction”. It’s therefore very far from a comprehensive listing—go to, for example, programmableweb for that—and there’s little by way of reviews—go to Mashable! if you want up-to-the-moment reviews.

I first set this site up in January 2006, on a server in my loft, as a directory, by application area, of FLOSS and “Web 2.0″ projects. The two don’t necessarily go naturally together, and I’ll perhaps one day give them separate sites.

FLOSS (free libre open source software) was the more important of the two. I have a strong personal and political commitment to digital democracy, to community informatics, to empowering the disempowered; and FLOSS is the key to doing so. The Web 2.0 … well, it’s just so darned engrossing, huh?

More to be written another day … possibly … in the meantime, please explore the links in the sidebars.

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