I have spoken at all bar one of the Internet Librarian International (ILI) conferences and for a number of years have been a member of the ILI advisory group. So I am pleased to announce that the ...
The World Wide Web (WWW) conference series was launched in 1994 and I have vivid memories of attending the conference, hosted in CERN, the birthplace of the Web, which was described as ‘the Woodsto...
The Linked Data Challenge A week ago I issued a challenge to Linked Data developers – using a Linked Data service, such as DBpedia, tell me which town or city in the UK has the largest proportion o...
Copyright? There’s A Need For A Debate On Friday I read a blog post on about alleged copyright infringement on Blogger. The post on the JISC Digital Media blog described how “In a draconian move, G...
Back in November, following the interest in Linked Data which had been discussed at a CETIS 2009 Conference I wondered whether it was Time To Experiment With DBpedia? The following month I attended...
A New Report A new report on “An Investigation into the Challenges, Application and Benefits of Social Media in Higher Education Institutes” has just been published. This 28 page document was pub...
Shortly after I published my post on “iPad, Flash, HTML 5 and Standards” it seems that the an announcement was made regarding the licence conditions for Web use use of the H.264 video format. Phili...
Lack of Flash Support by the iPad – Bad News or Good? A post I wrote in November 2008 entitled “Why Did SMIL and SVG Fail?” has been referenced by the Stevie 5 is Alive blog. The post on the lack o...
After month’s of speculation the iPad was announced yesterday And after a day in which many Twitterers were responding to Steve Jobs’ announcement today we say the headlines in the press. The main...
The JISC-funded Shared Infrastructure Services (SIS) Landscape Study has published two reports which describe how Web 2.0 is being used in higher educational institutions in the UK and Australia. T...
Back in October 2005 I gave a talk entitled “Email Must Die!” at the Internet Librarian International 2005 (ILI) Conference. The following summary of the talk was published in Elucidate (Vol. 3 Iss...
Call For Submissions to IWMW 2010 We have recently announced the call for speakers and workshop facilitators at UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW). This year’s event, IWMW...
What’s the Score? What was the score in yesterday’s Chelsea versus Sunderland game? The final score was 7-2 – and according to the BBC Web site the score at one stage was simultaneously 4-0, 5-0 an...
Blogging Is Dead? In June last year Brian Clarke described on the Copyblogger blog how “Blogging is Dead (Again)“. The apparent demise of blogs was also discussed in a blog post (!) published on t...
On Tuesday I attended a “Future of Interoperability Standards” meeting which was organised by JISC CETIS. The interest in the subject area can be gauged by the popularity of the meeting with about...
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