Just a heads up that I am also blogging over on the Shooting People TOOLS blog about the new(ish) digital, webbified world of production and distribution. Check it out for a link to download the Shooting People/BAFTA Short Sighted book of contacts for filmmakers making shorts (including some tips for filmmaking in a Web2.0 world written by moi), plus lots of other good stuff: most recently links to the Peter Broderick indieWIRE articles on new distribution strategies and The Film…

If you need a little help sorting out your RSS feeds from your Wikis then check out the videos on The CommonCraft Show. Lee LeFever explains the basics in a wonderfully clear way and will get you started with some suggested links to try out. Topics include: Twitter Social Networking Social Bookmarking Blogs Wikis RSS

Is anyone using Twitter actively? Do you find it useful? Do you find out about cool stuff through Twitter? Or is it just more noise, less signal? Personally I’m a little addicted but I’m not sure if it’s a good, productive addiction or a bad, waste-of-time, distracting addiction. It’s a little like being at a big dinner party and trying to have lots of different conversations at the same time and never quite getting to the point.

I wanted to link to this post from Internet Duct Tape not because you will necessarily be interested in his links (although you may be!) but because it’s a great example of how you can cross-post across various social web-oriented websites to spread your links far and wide. In this case to delicious, stumbleupon, Twitter and Tumblr. One of the things I would say about all these sites is that it really helps to use them to get a sense…

I’ve been thinking a lot about participatory culture recently as I’ve been desperately trying to get up to speed with all the exciting things happening online. Just watched the video below from a TED talk by Howard Rheingold. It’s fascinating to think about how so many of the new systems and sites use collaboration to work – in fact the more people that use them the better they work for everybody – from the folksonomy of tagging to the hive…