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March 2007
March 01, 2007
FireFox - The Researchers Favourite Application?
March 01, 2007
Peter Miller recently suggested that “Every academic’s current favourite [FireFox extension] has to be the reference management tool Zotero.” In reply I suggested that “surely every academic’s favourite application must be FireFox?!” Peter and I would be in agreement that a combination of FireFox and a variety of FireFox extensions can provide a powerful platform for the ...
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March 02, 2007
The Web: From Childhood to Early Adolescence
March 02, 2007
We are now seeing the Web developing from its childhood to a, sometimes troublesome, adolescent in our institutions. In its infant years IT service departments took responsibility for helped to nurture and develop the baby (they read the Apache manuals, learnt Perl programming and developed some simple rules so the Web wouldn’t get into too much mischief). ...
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Gabbly - A Simply Chat Facility For Blogs
March 02, 2007
I’ve previously described how the Meebo plugin can be used to provide a chat facility for blogs. However its use requires installation of the plugin as a sidebar widget and users need to have a browser which support Flash. An alternative approach would be to make use of a more native Web-based chat facility. One possibly would ...
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March 03, 2007
Dapper - Web Mashup Development For All?
March 03, 2007
I’ve never been a fan of the mystique that you sometime find with Web developers, who like to keep the secret art of development within their own closed community and sometimes belittle small scale development work. “Real programmers don’t use Pascal” was their war cry in the 1980s. I enjoy pointing out to admin staff that when they ...
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March 04, 2007
The Blotter Dapper Application
March 04, 2007
One example of a Dapper application ( a Dapplication) which is available from the Dapper Web site is Blotter. This uses Dapper to scrape the Technorati Web site for statistical information on usage of a blog (and note that the Blotter page describes how this application was developed). As an example I have embedded the Blotter application ...
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March 05, 2007
What IS a Web Site? Who Should Manage the Web Site?
March 05, 2007
What is a Web site for an organisation such as a University? And what is the remit of the body charged with managing the Web site? I used to think we knew the answers to these questions: a large organisation would have multiple Web presences (organisational, departmental, Intranets, etc.) with a combination of centralised and devolved approaches to managing ...
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March 06, 2007
JISC TechWatch Report on Web 2.0
March 06, 2007
A JISC TechWatch report entitled “What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education” (TSW0701) is now available on the JISC Web site. The JISC Web site contains the following information about the report: This TechWatch report was commissioned to investigate the substance behind the hyperbole surrounding ‘Web 2.0’. ...
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March 07, 2007
10,000 For 100 And Counting
March 07, 2007
Statistics For The Blog This blog was launched on 1st November 2006 and today, 18 weeks later, the blog has received its 10,000 visitors and this is the 100th posting. The Akismet spam filter has caught over 1,300 spam comments, although I’d estimate that about 20-30 of these have been legitimate comments (if there had been about 300 ...
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Talk On Web 2.0 At PPARC
March 07, 2007
Earlier today I gave a talk on “Web 2.0: What Can It Offer The Research Community?” at PPARC. I mentioned the concept of ‘blended blogging’ - and would like to invite any of the participants at the talk to give their feedback. Did I convince you of the potential benefits of Web 2.0? What are the main ...
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March 08, 2007
Does Web 2.0 Herald The End Of In-House Development And Provision Of IT Services?
March 08, 2007
A while ago I submitted a proposal for a talk entitled “Does Web 2.0 Herald The End Of In-House Development And Provision Of IT Services?” to The Shock of the Old 2007: Shock of the Social conference. The proposal was accepted, but by the time I had received confirmation, other commitments had cropped up. Fortunately this topic ...
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March 12, 2007
Wikipedia - Can We Provide Open Access For Training Materials?
March 12, 2007
Melissa Knighton, who works on the Staff Development Unit at the University of Leeds, and I took part in a workshop at ITCP held in Trieste a couple of years ago. So I was interested to rediscover her Elgg blog recently. Her posting on Wikipedia - a resource for learning and teaching? described s staff development course ...
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March 13, 2007
Benefits Of Uploading Your Image To Technorati
March 13, 2007
How do you ensure that your blog stands out in a page of search results? A well-established way of doing this is to associate an image with your Web site. For a blog the image could be a photograph of the blog author or a relevant icon. This struck me whilst using Technorati. I noticed how links to my ...
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March 14, 2007
Talk on Deployment Strategies For Web 2.0
March 14, 2007
Background On Monday 12 March 2007 I gave a seminar on Deployment Strategies For Web 2.0 at the University of Nottingham, following an invitation from Stephen Pinfield, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the University I received the invitation from Stephen following a similar presentation (entitled Web 2.0: How Should IT Services and the Library Respond?) I gave in ...
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March 15, 2007
IT Services Reinventing Themselves
March 15, 2007
I gave a talk on IT Services: Help Or Hindrance? at the UCISA Management Conference 2006 held in Blackpool on 8-10th March 2006. The UCISA Management Conference is aimed at senior managers in IT Service departments (and also attracts those involved in related support service departments, including the Library). I was very pleased to be asked to speak ...
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March 16, 2007
I’m A Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
March 16, 2007
Around Christmas time, I think it was, I was talking to my colleague Paul Walk (in The Star, probably Bath’s finest pub) about ways in which we can communicate effectively complex ideas. We discussed the JISC e-Framework strategy in the context of the animated cartoon which seeks to explain the Service Oriented Approach (Feb 2007). We then discussed ...
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BBC 2.0
March 16, 2007
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 I attended the JISC Conference 2007. As always, this is a valuable opportunity to meet people from the sector and catch up with gossip, developments, etc. There are also a number of plenary talks and workshop session to attend as well A great development this year was the provision of ...
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March 19, 2007
Sudden Jump In Technorati Rating
March 19, 2007
I noticed recently that this blog had jumped up in the Technorati ranking, from about 110,00 to 80,535. This was due to n increase in the numbers of links to the blog and blogs linking to this blog, as illustrated in the graph (taken from the Blotter application I posted about recently). What was responsible for this sudden rise? ...
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Being Informed Of New Comments
March 19, 2007
When a new comment is made on this blog I receive an email alert. And details of the last 5 comments are included in the sidebar widget. But how can readers of this blog find out about new comments made to postings of particular interest, especially if they miss the information in the sidebar (which can happen ...
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March 20, 2007
Blog Policies
March 20, 2007
I was interested to see that the Blog Policy for this blog (and the rationale behind it and how it can be applied elsewhere) has been picked up and adopted by the Blogging@UoD blog (”A Blog on blogging in Higher & Further Education from the University of Derby”). I would expect to see further developments in this, as universities, ...
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March 21, 2007
Further Comments On JISC 2007 Conference
March 21, 2007
I recently mentioned that the highlight of the JISC Conference 2007 for me (and, it would seem, many other participants) was the final plenary talk on BBC 2.0. The organisers of the conference should be pleased with the success of this talk, and also with the organisation of the event itself. No doubt the organisers will receive ...
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March 26, 2007
HTML Email - Views From The Grizzled Techies And Evil Marketeers
March 26, 2007
“One of our web officers has been asking about whether there’s any good, reasonably priced training in creating HTML mails. If anyone has any experience with this, would you let me know?“ That message, sent recently to the web-support JISCMail list seemed a reasonable request for information. So I was surprised to see responses saying “I can give you ...
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March 28, 2007
Slideshare Repository and PDFs
March 28, 2007
I recently discovered that the Slideshare service (a repository service for slides in PowerPoint or Open Office formats) also allows PDF files to be uploaded. This makes sense as PDFs can be used as a presentation format for slide shows. I then wondered whether Slideshare could be used as a repository for papers in PDF format. So ...
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March 29, 2007
Scribd - Doing For Documents What Slideshare Does For Presentations
March 29, 2007
As I’ve recently described, a couple of months ago I uploaded PDFs of a few of my papers to Slideshare, and wondered whether there was a business opportunity for Slideshare in extending its remit from providing a repository of slideshows to include documents in general. Well last week I came across Scribd - a Web 2.0 service which ...
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March 30, 2007
Snap Preview Facility
March 30, 2007
A WordPress feature which is enabled by default is the preview of the destination of links, which is displayed when you move the mouse over hyperlink. This feature, which is illustrated in the screen shot, is provided by Snap. That’s cool, I thought when I first came across this. And I still find it useful: I get a feel ...
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