eScience All Hands 2007 – final thoughts
I very much enjoyed the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007 last week. Being new to many of the disciplines covered there, I went with an open mind. I learned a bewildering amount, and realised that...
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No degrees of separation?
I recently got spammed invited to participate in Karl Bubyan’s Six Degrees of Separation application in Facebook. This application navigates the ‘social graph’ in Facebook, offering a couple of tools...
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The selfish application
Some time ago, several of my friends in Facebook installed the ‘MyQuestions’ application: this application allows the user to pose a question and invite answers from their friends. Significantly, in...
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Celebrating 30 years of UKOLN
This coming Thursday (10/04/2008), UKOLN will be celebrating its 30th anniversary, in an (invitation only) event at the British Library Conference Centre, London. Participating will be current and...
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Why I suppose I ought to become a Daily Mail reader
It’s Sunday evening…. Brian Kelly recently resurrected the debate about Facebook and its use in an HE context. I know he’s on the road at the moment so I suspect he dipped into his blog post ‘reserve’...
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I spent half an hour this morning experimenting with QR barcodes, prompted by Andy Ramsden who is running a small test/survey. I used various iPhone clients to try to decode and make use of three QR...
View ArticleLibrary hackers FTW
Yesterday I went along to Mashed Library UK 2008 in London. Quickly abbreviated to ‘mashlib’, the event was the brain-child of Owen Stephens. Owen did most of the organising, aided by David Flanders...
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Making developers happy
Since I joined UKOLN two years ago, I have frequently claimed that we (JISC, the sector, our community) don’t do enough to support and listen to developers. Well, I’m just back from The Developers...
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Facebook wants your attention, not your photos
There has been something of a furore over a recent change to Facebook‘s terms of service (ToS). The Consumerist reported this as Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your...
View ArticleSmoke and mirrors, or good intentions?
Update: Karen’s presentation has now been made available. Yesterday, despite the best intentions of Worst Great Western, I travelled to the British Library in London to hear Karen Calhoun, Vice...
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