I’m watching a fascinating (and well put together) presentation from Lisa Kimball on “Producing Social Network Environments” as part of OSN05. Am not sure if you can get it, I think you can , try here. (need Realplayer). If you can I’d encourage you to watch it, it’s v. good! What I’m not entirely comfortable …
Yearly Archives: 2005
More cowbell (?)
Stigmergic: “So I went to blackboard’s site (nope – no link, I’m not going to up their page rating), and I found it tainted with the miasma of corporate culture that is threatening to choke the learning out of the education system.”
Getting fired for blogging, or not.
NevOn, my new favourite communications blog posts a good run-down on the Mark Jen ‘getting fired for blogging by Google’ event quoting some great sources and wrapping it up nicely with: “Employees – Use your own common sense on what you say about your employer and issues in your workplace in your public blog. The …
ANT
Interesting, via Adrian, ANT looks a lot like a rather funky video aggregator, Mac only at the mo but working ‘feverishly’ on a Windows version… ” * ANT helps you download and watch video published on the Internet. * ANT allows you to organize and manage video playlists * ANT is a video aggregator that …
Online Social Networks 2005
Cool, I’m going to be at Online Social Networks 2005, first time I’ve attended a ‘summit’ ;o) Will be interesting to see what comes up, at $35 it’s a snip and kicks off today if anyone fancies coming along…
Blogbib -Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs…
Via Sharon comes Blogbib, an excellent resource describing itself as an “annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs…”. For example here’s a great descriptive list of books on blogging and here are plenty of online presentations on blogging. Susan Herzog is obviously another of these amazing librarians previously trapped in …
An alternative way to organise your data…
Simon Pockley of The Flight of Ducks (an amazing, poetic web experience if you have a few minutes to explore!) and also a colleague told me a fascinating story this morning about alternative approaches to handling information. Essentially he and others were talking at a recent metadata conference in Seattle about libraries and the way …
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The Journal of Community Informatics… good news!
I love having a weblog, Mike Gurstein editor-in-chief of The Journal of Community Informatics commented on my last post saying that it was a mistake that the email got sent out and that all the papers are now fully available. Frabjous :D So not only am, I now back on their email notification list (c’mon …
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IncSub educational hosting & support… premium service?
Prompted by a couple of emails regarding the kind of levels of support that IncSub (do you like the final double barrelled capitalisation?) can provide and the answer generally being “Um, a bit, but we, um, aren’t a hosting company or anything” I was wondering whether there would be any point providing a kind of …
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Googol or google buns – where does that name really come from?
Prompted by a bit of etymological exploration from Anjo (being an ex ESL teacher these things always get me) I figured I’d use A9 to support my contention that all this stuff about the name Google coming from a googol is a bit far fetched really. You see the real source for the name is …
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