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October 2007
October 01, 2007
The Blogging Librarian: Pragmatic, Connected and Visible
October 01, 2007
In a guest blog post for November Michael Stephens gives his thoughts on the Blogging Librarian. Michael is well-known to many in the library 2.0 world through his Tame The Web blog and his participation at the Internet Librarian International (ILI) conferences. As the fall conference season gets into high gear, groups of librarians and information professionals will gather ...
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October 03, 2007
What Can Mashups Offer?
October 03, 2007
I have been invited to give a talk on mashups at the annual conference for JISC Regional Support Centres (RSCs). To support my talk I have written a briefing document giving An Introduction To Mashups. I would welcome feedback on this document (the master copy of which is an A5 printed document, which provides a mechanism for keeping ...
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October 04, 2007
Using Your WiFi Network Whilst In Your Pyjamas
October 04, 2007
You have a WiFi network at home. You also have a mobile device which supports WIFi - perhaps a PDA or a mobile phone? How can you exploit these two technologies before you’ve set off to work? I have started to get into the habit of, after getting up, switching on my mobile phone and refreshing the ...
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October 05, 2007
Fashions In Internet Technologies
October 05, 2007
The Apache server software saw steady growth in its use from its launch. But I never heard anyone criticise Web server administrators for being fashionable, or doom merchants predicting that the growth would come to an end and, therefore, there is little point in using the software. And yet such arguments are being made when other software, such ...
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October 07, 2007
Results of the Evaluation of the UK Web Focus blog
October 07, 2007
On 23 August 2007 I announced the launch of an evaluation of the UK Web Focus blog. The results of the evaluation, which was open for a period of four weeks, are now available. The evaluation, which made use of the SurveyMonkey software, have two main purposes: 1) to gain a better understanding of the tools used to ...
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October 09, 2007
The Techshare 2007 Conference (1)
October 09, 2007
Last week I attended the first day of the Techshare 2007 conference. I gave a talk on Beyond Compliance - A Holistic Approach to Web Accessibility, which reviewed the work on Web accessibility policies which has been published at the W4A 2005, W4A 2006 and W4A 2007 conferences. This work has described the limitations of the WAI approach ...
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October 10, 2007
The Techshare 2007 Conference (2)
October 10, 2007
I mentioned previously my talk on “Beyond Compliance - A Holistic Approach to Web Accessibility” which I gave at the Techshare 2007 conference. My talk was in complete contrast to the preceding talk on “EuraCERT“. This talk described the development of a European certification scheme for Web accessibility, which is based on the development of automated software which checks ...
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October 12, 2007
On Thunderbird
October 12, 2007
“Thunderbirds aren’t go” was the initial ungrammatical idea for the title of this post, based on an article in Thursday’s Online Guardian which asked “What future has the Thunderbird email program got?” in light of the departure of the two paid programmers who were working on the project (and discussed on the Guardian technology blog). I installed Thunderbird a ...
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October 14, 2007
All UK Government Web Sites Must Be WCAG AA Compliant
October 14, 2007
The UK Government has published a Public consultation on Delivering Inclusive Websites document (TG102). This document (available in MS Word and PDF formats) states that all government Web sites must comply with the WCAG AA guidelines by December 2008. And failure to comply will result in the withdrawal of the .gov.uk domain. Great, you may think. At last ...
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October 15, 2007
We’re The Young Generation
October 15, 2007
On Wednesday 10th October 2007 I attended the “Inspiring the iGeneration Web 2.0, teenagers and libraries” event which was held at the Wolverhampton Science Park. My Opening Talk I gave the opening talk entitled ” We’re The Young Generation, And We’ve Got Something To Say” which provided an overview of Web 2.0 and outlined why social networking software, such ...
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October 16, 2007
Using Facebook To Promote Events
October 16, 2007
UKOLN organises many workshops, conferences and other types of events. We also speak at and support events organised by others, including our funders (JISC and MLA) and fellow services, such as CETIS, MIMAS, EDINA and OSS Watch. How should we most effectively promote our events, so that we maximise the audiences at the events and attract new audiences, ...
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October 17, 2007
My Facebook Friends Do My Work For Me
October 17, 2007
Last week I wrote about my preparation for a talk on What Can Mashups Offer? I was preparing for the JISC RSC 3.0 annual conference and invited readers to provide examples. I was pleased to receive a response from James Clay about the use of Yahoo Pipes at the ALT-C conference and, via the JISC Emerge manifestation of ...
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October 19, 2007
Should Open Content Be Open For Commercial Exploitation
October 19, 2007
I suspect many of my peers who make their content available under a Creative Commons licence have, like me, chosen an Attribution, Non-commercial ShareAlike licence, which permits the content to be reused for non-commercial purposes provided acknowledgements are given and the same rights are applied to the derived materials. But should I be taking a more liberal approach, I ...
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October 20, 2007
Another One Bites The Dust
October 20, 2007
I recently suggested that the English secretly prefer being failures, as we enjoy complaining about our failures and belittling the vulgarities of those who are successful, and that, while this is particularly true in the sporting field, in IT and Web development we find it easier to criticise successful services rather than to exploit their successes. And on a ...
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October 23, 2007
The UK’s Newest University
October 23, 2007
What is the UK’s newest university? I thought that it was probably Edge Hill University. But I recently discovered that the University of Central England is now BCU - Birmingham City University. I’m assuming this is the UK’s newest university. What are the implications of changing the domain name for a well-established Web site () to something new ()? ...
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October 30, 2007
The Power Of Information
October 30, 2007
I attended a meeting recently at which a civil servant introduced a report which he was summarising as ‘exciting’. I had to stifle a yawn, thinking that what might be exciting for a civil servant would probably be very dull and boring. But I was wrong - the report on “The Power Of Information” is of much interest ...
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The Beardless Lady
October 30, 2007
Following the comments that the Emerge Web site is being overrun by bearded men, I have also (temporarily) changed my profile.If you are wondering about my strange look, you should visit the Newcastle Kingsmen Web ...
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