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February 07, 2008

Is That A Pistol In Your Pocket?

February 07, 2008

Mae West asked “Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?” Last night when I went out rapper sword dancing around the pubs in Bath the bulges in my pocket were due to my Casio Ex-Z1080 digital camera, Nokia N95 phone and iPod MP3 player. It struck me that the processing power, ...

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February 04, 2008

Thoughts on Goowy

February 04, 2008

Yes, there’s another integrated Web-based environment for providing access to email. calendar, instant messaging, etc, as well as having a widget environment which provides extensibility. The service is called Goowy. I have just been notified of this service via a tweet from Techcrunch which has just announced that “AOL Acquires Goowy (in this case ...

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January 28, 2008

IWMW 2007 - Call For Proposals

January 28, 2008

This year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2008) will be held at the University of Aberdeen on 22-24th July 2008. The theme of this year’s event is “The Great Debate“. The event will provide an opportunity for members of the institutional Web management community to engage in discussions regarding the future of institutional Web services, particularly ...

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January 23, 2008

Who Should Own The Social Networks?

January 23, 2008

“With friends like these …” The Guardian recently featured an article entitled With friends like these … which Josie Fraser described as “a blistering critique of Facebook“. The article not only laid into Facebook but also social networks and communications technologies more generally. And, as can be seen from the concluding paragraph: “I want to reconnect ...

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January 22, 2008

Is Pownce The Answer?

January 22, 2008

In the recent discussion about Twitter there was a feeling, from some, that it wasn’t well-suited for discussions. Indeed Andy Powell commented: i think you are right to question whether using Twitter for one-to-one or few-to-few conversations is the right approach. i (eventually) stopped Twittering on Friday cos it felt like we were mis-using it. And yet ...

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January 21, 2008

Twitter Friday

January 21, 2008

The Background Friday turned out to be a day of experimentation with Twitter for myself and some of my Twitter friends including Andy Powell, Pete Johnston, Paul Miller, Owen Stephens and Josie Fraser. Friday actually began with an email discussion with fellow members of the Internet Librarian International advisory group over the theme for the conference. I expressed ...

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January 17, 2008

Facebook Is So Last Year

January 17, 2008

The Guardian’s Predictions For 2008 Facebook is so last year. It’s official - it was in the Guardian. It was back in May (2007) when John Kirriemuir picked up on the buzz which Facebook was generating, with his post Facebook: Social Networking grows up? describing how “there is now a social networking site that: (1) is based ...

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January 16, 2008

UCISA Award for UK Web Focus Blog

January 16, 2008

I’m pleased to report that the UK Web Focus blog was awarded a prize by UCISA (Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association). This blog will feature as a case study which will appear in a forthcoming UCISA Innovation and Communication best practice guide to be published by the Communications, Liaison and Information Working Group of ...

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January 14, 2008

Is Second Life Accessible?

January 14, 2008

Is Second Life accessible to users with disabilities?  If your views on accessibility are based on compliance with guidelines (especially WAI’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and you feel that all digital resources must be universally accessible to everyone, you may feel that an inherently graphical and interactive  environment such as Second Life is unlikely to ...

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January 11, 2008

Standards For Data Portability

January 11, 2008

In a recent post on Should Personal Data In Facebook Be Exportable I pointed out the potential dangers of allowing data to be exported out of an environment in which access control can be managed. I have previously suggested that in 30 years time potential new leaders of political parties will have their Facebook ...

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