links for 2009-05-04

I intend to be blogging from most of this between 13-16 May. Please contact me if you’d me interested in any copy, pix, video etc. from any of the conference programme.

Since bloggers aren’t engaged in daily news coverage, some will have time to go through government documents and uncover news item in the tradition of I.F. Stone and Marcy Wheeler.

You need to personalize some of these pages before they can become useful for those with a passion for social media. This guide highlights seven different ways to create a beautiful and useful social start page.