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July 2007
July 01, 2007
Guest Post: Go Forth and Mash!
July 01, 2007
A regular guest blog post at the start of every month aims to provide an fresh insight into issues which are covered in the UK Web Focus blog. The month’s guest blog post comes from Mike Ellis, who posts on the Electronic Museum blog. Mike was also the lead author of a paper on Web 2.0: How to Stop ...
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July 02, 2007
Web Owner vs. Web User Tensions
July 02, 2007
My colleague Marieke Guy has organised a panel session entitled “Dealing with the Commercial World: Saviour or Satan?” at the IWMW 2007 event. The abstract for the session begins “With the introduction of variable fees Universities have entered what education secretary Ruth Kelly called “a new era”. Financial departments have had to find more creative ways to meet ...
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July 03, 2007
From The DNER To Web 2.0
July 03, 2007
My former colleague Andy Powell was one of the key developers of what was originally known as the DNER (Distributed National Electronic Resource) and was later rebranded as the JISC Information Environment (IE). Andy produced a diagram of the IE architecture, an early version of which is illustrated. This diagram (and subsequent versions which further developed the initial ...
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July 04, 2007
Clarifying The Openness Of Slides
July 04, 2007
At the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 we’ll be encouraging the speakers and workshop facilitators to maximise access to their resources by providing a Creative Commons licence for their slides and other related resources. But how should the speakers go about this? The approach I have taken is to include a Creative Commons logo on the title slide ...
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The ‘Just Do It’ Meme
July 04, 2007
Mike Ellis, in a recent guest blog post, urged us to ‘go forth and mash’. Mike informed us that ‘Anyone who’s had the misfortune to hear me speak will know that I’m a big fan of a “just do it” attitude to Web development’. And, indeed, Mike and I were co-authors of a paper on Web 2.0: How ...
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July 05, 2007
Just Do It - But How?
July 05, 2007
I recently posted about the call to “Just do it” made by Lynne Brindley in her opening plenary talk at the Umbrella 2007 conference; a rallying cry which has been echoed by others. In his blog post about the conference (and echoed in his trip report) Pete Smith asks “How useful is ‘just do it’ as advice?” The answer to ...
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July 08, 2007
Facebook WILL Die!
July 08, 2007
Yes, you heard it here first - Facebook will die! This may be in a year’s time; perhaps we learn that Facebook is a money-laundering operation for the Mafia. Or it may be discovered that many of the Facebook groups and photo-sharing services are used for pornography. Or maybe the Facebook owners get bored or decide that social ...
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July 09, 2007
Universities, Not Facebook, May Be Facing Collapse
July 09, 2007
When I wrote my post on Facebook WILL Die I never expected to read a headline article on the front page of the Guardian which gave a Secret List of Universities Facing Collapse. But that was the headline of Saturday’s Guardian (7 July 2007). The article listed almost 50 institutions which are “at risk of financial failure” - although ...
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July 11, 2007
How Large Is Your Facebook Network?
July 11, 2007
How large is the Facebook network at your institution? The network at the University of Bath has 10,199 members (on 7 July 2007). This sounds impressive, but the numbers aren’t as large as those for the University of Leeds (26,944). Manchester (25,644) , Nottingham (24,021), Sheffield (19,939), or, up in Scotland, Edinburgh with 21,396 members. These ...
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July 12, 2007
Transliteracy - Breaking Bown Barriers
July 12, 2007
On Tuesday (10 July 2007) I was a co-faciliator of an ‘unconference’ session at a JISC Emerge meeting which aimed at helping to consolidate the Emerge community of practice. Until a few weeks ago the term ‘unconference’ was new to me - indeed, as I joked at the event, I thought myself and Graham Atwell, my co-facilitator, had been ...
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Clever Spam Comment
July 12, 2007
There have been over 22,000 spam comments which have been submitted to this blog since it was launched in November 2006. Most have been filtered automatically by the Akismet spam filter, but a small number do get through and require me to delete them manually. This is normally not a problem, as they can be spotted easily. ...
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Submissions to the IWMW 2007 Competition
July 12, 2007
I have commented previously that one of the innovations at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2007) is the innovation competition. The aim of the innovation competition is to provide an environment for participants (and other interested parties) to provide examples of lightweight innovations which may be of interest to workshop participants. We hope this will provide ...
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A Timeline For All IWMW Events
July 12, 2007
In response to a post in which I announced that Data Available For IWMW 2007 Competition I received a comment from Tim Beadle (a Web developer in Bath) who suggested I look at Timeline from MIT. So I did and started to put together a timeline of IWMW events. However after the 30 minutes I allocated to ...
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July 13, 2007
IWMW 2007: Delegates and their Tags
July 13, 2007
My colleague Paul Walk has submitted an entry to the IWMW 2007 innovation competition. As Paul has described in his blog this example takes the locations of the host institutions of the participants and displays them in a Google Map. This is a very mainstream use of Google Maps (indeed a variety of maps of the location of ...
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