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December 2007
December 03, 2007
The Opening Up Of Facebook
December 03, 2007
Opening Up The Data Via the Are there 100,000 people for open data in Facebook? group on Facebook I found the statement that “We already know that Mark Zuckerberg has committed Facebook to opening up its data“. The group description links to an article in Macworld entitled “Web 2.0: Facebook wants to make members’ data ...
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December 05, 2007
IWR Information Professional of the Year Award
December 05, 2007
I am pleased to report that yesterday, at the end of the first day of the Online Information 2007 conference, I received an award for the Information World Review (IWR) Information Professional of the Year Prior to presenting the award Timothy Rinda, American Psychological Association said: “When I judge the IWR American Psychological Association Awards I look ...
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December 06, 2007
CRIG Teleconference Chats On ‘Repositories And Other Services’
December 06, 2007
I recently took part in one of a series of teleconference chats organised by the JISC-funded CRIG (Common Repository Interfaces Working Group) project. The project organised a day of tele-conferences on 8th November 2007. The aim of the day was to facilitate a “discussion between members on how repositories might be improved (bluesky thinking)“. A ...
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December 07, 2007
The Way We Were
December 07, 2007
Can you remember what your institution’s home page looked like when the service was first launched? And how did it evolve over time? Did you take advantage of frames when they were first released? Did you then exploit client-side technologies such as Java, JavaScript and Flash (and perhaps even ActiveX control)? And how long did ...
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December 10, 2007
Online Information 2007 Gets Web 2.0
December 10, 2007
Last week I attended the Online Information 2007 conference. I’ve participated in the conference previously - in 1998 when I participated in a panel on Enabling The User In the Quest For Quality and in 2002 when I gave a talk on Approaches to the Preservation of Web Sites. However I always felt that, ...
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December 11, 2007
OCLC Symposium At Online Information 2007
December 11, 2007
On the second day of the Online Information 2007 conference I attended the OCLC Symposium on Who’s Watching Your Space? The symposium provided OCLC an opportunity for OCLC to unveil their report on Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World which I’ve commented upon recently. The session began with a talk by John Naughton, ...
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December 13, 2007
Remember PeopleAggregator?
December 13, 2007
The flurry of posts about OpenSocial (from Michael Nolan, Andy Powell, Tony Hirst, Scott Wilson and George Roberts amongst those whose blogs I regularly read) reminded me about PeopleAggregator, the open social networking service I subscribed to a few months ago. PeopleAggregator was developed by Marc Cantor, who set up the company which developed Macromedia Flash ...
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Will The UK Government Shut Down The Queen’s Web Site?
December 13, 2007
In a post on All UK Government Web Sites Must Be WCAG AA Compliant I recently warned of the dangers that the UK Government’s blunt instrument of mandating that all UK government Web sites must comply with WCAG AA accessibility guidelines could be counter-productive as the current WCAG 1.0 guidelines are widely felt to be ...
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December 14, 2007
Me, Myself, I
December 14, 2007
The OCLC report on ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust In Our Networked World’, which I wrote about recently, introduces the report with a quotation from the Time “Person of the Year: You” article, published a year ago on 13 December 2006. Web 2.0 services, such as YouTube and Flickr, enable the individual to be active creators of ...
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December 16, 2007
The Demise of Eduspaces
December 16, 2007
I have just received the following email: Subject: Important EduSpaces news Hi All, We would like to inform all users of EduSpaces that we will be shutting down the service on Jan 10th, 2008. We have provided a mechanism for you to export all your blog posts in either an RSS format or HTML. To do this, go to ...
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December 17, 2007
New Open Data Licence - a Milestone for Sharing Data on the Internet
December 17, 2007
Myself, Scott Wilson and Randy Metcalfe co-authored a paper on “Openness in Higher Education: Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access” which Scott presented at the ELPUB 2007 conference. The paper described the potential benefits of use of open standards and open source software and an open approach which characterises much of the Web 2.0 environment. We ...
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December 21, 2007
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
December 21, 2007
For many of us it’s easy to find ‘friends’ on Facebook. Once you’ve got started and added a few friends it can often be easy to find other people you know. And the more links you have the easier it is to grow your network. But how many of us have actively ‘defriended’ someone ...
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December 22, 2007
A Call for a Web 2.0 Policy Debate
December 22, 2007
A brief interview with me has just been published on the JISC Web site with the title ‘Information Professional of the Year’ calls for Web 2.0 policy debate. The article reflects many of the discussions which have taken place on this blog during the year: There are divergences in opinion within the sector over the most ...
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