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August 16, 2007
Facebook: Engage with it or leave it alone?
August 16, 2007
The Question Do institutions (a) need to engage with Facebook as our students like it or (b) it’s their social space, so let’s leave it alone? This was the question I asked using the My Question application in Facebook. The question was launched on 31 July and by 10 August I had received 18 replies, the ...
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August 17, 2007
TechWatch Report on XML-based Office Document Standards
August 17, 2007
A JISC TechWatch report on XML-based Office Document Standards (TSW0702) has just been published. As described on the TechWatch Web site: This TechWatch report explains these issues and some of the standards involved. It proposes that although the UK higher and further education sector has, for a long time, understood the interoperability benefits of open standards, it has been slow ...
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August 18, 2007
Tweet Twerp
August 18, 2007
Some time ago I heard that there were two types of Twitter users: those who had used it, didn’t get it and had given up and those who used it, didn’t get it, but were still trying. I’m now beginning to get it, I think, as I’ll describe. For those who haven’t come across Twitter, it is described in ...
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August 20, 2007
Doomed Web Sites
August 20, 2007
On 12th August I received an email which informed me that: .. the Splashblog service will be terminated on SEPTEMBER 10th, 2007. The Splashblog website, any uploaded pictures or content, and customer support will no longer be accessible after this time. I subscribed to Splashblog’s free service (which provides a mobile photo blogging service) in January, as the ...
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August 22, 2007
Predicting The Twitter Backlash
August 22, 2007
I recently described Twitter and my initial experiments with it. I then, via a Technorati Twitter tag, I came across a post about Twitku, which integrates the Twitter and Jaiku micro-blogging tools. And I also discovered a mobile version of Twitter which can run on smartphones. All very interesting, and an example of the benefits of providing data ...
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August 23, 2007
Use of Facebook in Primary Schools
August 23, 2007
Back in November 2006 Andy Powell wrote a post on Building a Web 2.0 school Web site in which he described the approaches to had taken to support the development of the Newbridge Primary school in Bath, of which he is a school govener. As Andy described “the site is a mash-up of content pulled from Google Calendar (calendar ...
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Your Feedback On The UK Web Focus Blog
August 23, 2007
What tools are readers of the UK Web Focus blog using - do you visit the host Web site (at ukwebfocus.wordpress.com) or use an RSS reader? Or perhaps you read the postings which have been aggregated elsewhere (such as on the JISC Emerge or Planet OSS Watch Web sites or within the Facebook environment). If the latter is the ...
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August 24, 2007
An Embarrassing Image Bot
August 24, 2007
An approach I’ve taken to maximising the impact of this blog has been register it (and its RSS feed) in various locations. One of these was the MyBlogLog service, as I’ve described previously. As well as providing access to the blog by visitors to the MyBlogLog service (and I notice there have been 600 visitors in the last seven ...
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August 27, 2007
Further Experiments With Slidecasts
August 27, 2007
I have been carrying out some further experiments with Slideshare’s Slidecast facility, which allows uploaded presentations to be synched with audio. In a previous post on the Slidecast service I was self-conscious of my ums and errs, perhaps because I was giving the talk along in my office and was thinking about both what I was talking about and ...
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August 28, 2007
Blogging Masterclass at ILI 2007
August 28, 2007
Last month I mentioned that Kara Jones and myself will be running a blogging masterclass, the day before the start of the ILI 2007 conference. We are about to finalise the materials for the workshop. We would like to include various examples of uses of blogs within the library sector, including academic libraries, public libraries and national libraries. We ...
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August 29, 2007
Initial Experiences With VCasmo
August 29, 2007
I recently wrote an article about Zentation, a Web 2.0 service which enables a video clip to be synched with a PowerPoint presentation. I received a comment on that post, suggesting that I should check out VCasmo. So I did - and I’m impressed. And my advice if thinking about using an externally hosted Web 2.0 service, is to ...
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August 31, 2007
It’s A Walled Garden
August 31, 2007
What would you say about a service which: Replicated resources meant for sharing Had very little structure to be used for resources Had long, application-specific URIs Required the user to change the URIs of a resource if the appearance of the resource was to be modified Made repurposing of resources difficult Often hides resources behind an authentication barrier Uses proprietary software to host the service I ...
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