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chriskeene
@lukask the terrible thing is i live very close to some late night cornershops, but was too lazy to leave flat.
- 10/15, 3pm
from Echofon
I don't think we're that good at recording the world we live in (photographs, sound) for future reference. The first question that can arise from that is: is it important? I like to think yes with...
chriskeene
how does genius work on a iphone (it can't be talking to itunes servers). genius!
- 7/26, 2am
from twhirl
I have just come across PubSubHubbub via Joss Winn's Learning Lab blog at the University of Lincoln. It's a way for RSS/Atom feed consumers (feed readers etc) to be instantly updated and notified ...
Today I saw a tweet from juliancheal, which mentioned he was setting up his virtual server on slicehost. I hadn't heard of this company but their offering looks interesting. This got me thinking ab...
chriskeene
@damyantipatel no probs, get in touch if you want any more. I't's a great product, though some differences to normal lib software
- 6/29, 7am
from twhirl
Rachel Bruce introduces the day, mentioning development work on COPAC and SUNCAT, Redefining Discovery (looking at the broader picture), the JISC TILE and JISC MOSAIC projects (we're playing a smal...
chriskeene
Some say libs shouldn't copy Amazon because we don't sell books. But perhaps our job is selling the right book to the right person (@daveyp)
- 6/19, 3am
from twhirl
chriskeene
@m1ke_ellis thanks, like the look of that (no libraries needed = good) will try it out later.
- 6/15, 1am
from twhirl
chriskeene
Glad to see Guardian isn't jumping on the 'photos of pretty girl who may have killed someone' bandwagon [ http]
- 6/12, 6am
from twhirl
chriskeene
@rachelbruce thanks, only just realised. just after i get an answer from David Lammy as well [ http]
- 6/5, 9am
from twhirl
I put this in to a seperate post. It continues on from my previous post, but didn't want my notes of the day to be taken over by my ill thought views. Personal Thoughts Reluctant to give some tho...
I put this in to a seperate post. It continues on from my previous post, but didn't want my notes of the day to be taken over by my ill thought views. Personal Thoughts Reluctant to give some tho...
Today I'm at the one day event 'The Data Imperative: Libraries and Research Data' at the Oxford e-research Centre. As usual, these are my own rough notes. There are mistakes, gaps and my own inter...
chriskeene
arse, hit publish and didn't realise had lost net connection, had to click back, and half of my post was missing. arse again
- 6/3, 10am
from twhirl
A quick post (my reader rejoices). European Elections are this Thursday. I wont bore you with my long winded thoughts on the EU, but it basically sums up as: conceptually a good idea, fundamentall...
chriskeene
@joeyanne lots of positive response from users. quite easy to get installed and running. though costs can quickly build up!
- 6/1, 7am
from web
chriskeene
it's at RIBA, which I'm looking forward to (especially if they use the in house catering yum yum [ http])
- 5/28, 3pm
from twhirl
chriskeene
people who mark #jiscbids need to remember to reply to sender and not reply to all when 'approving' jisc proposals
- 5/28, 3am
from twhirl
There’s a lot of talk in the Library world about ‘next generation catalogues’, library search tools and ‘discovery’. There’s good reason for this talk, in this domain the world has been turned on i...
chriskeene
@m_hopwood agree but if we're looking at using data/apis/code/etc is the industry in question important? (libraries) is BCS better suited?
- 5/22, 8am
from FriendFeed
chriskeene
@joeyanne ah, thought it might be, but turned out to be [ http] (which alas no more)
- 5/20, 8am
from twhirl
chriskeene
hehe nice idea Rt @NoteRobot: (@chriskeene) note to self: when demonstrating audioboo, remember it will be announced on twitter
- 5/20, 6am
from twhirl
chriskeene
finally got apache working right, had forgotten to add NameVirtualHost - haven't done this sort of thing in ages
- 5/18, 6am
from twhirl
The University of Pittsburgh Press has put nearly 500 out of print books online and Open Access. You can access them via their Digital Editions website. This is excellent news, making work which...
Some thoughts about MPs expenses: Of the excessive expense claims reported, there is a clear difference between those which are mistakes or trivial and those which are deliberatly gaiming the sys...
chriskeene
@aekins we have a media wiki which we are using for a lot of documenting (useful cos we can edit it anywhere), moving away from word docs
- 5/15, 1am
from twhirl
I've updated Repository Record Statistics (which I refer to as ircount). Some key points: Repository names with non-standard characters were not displaying properly. They now should, though the...
chriskeene
Listened to radio 6music via radiopop.co.uk played some good stuff.
- 5/12, 12am
from TwitterFon
I've updated Repository Record Statistics (which I refer to as ircount). Some key points: Repository names with non-standard characters were not displaying properly. They now should, though the...
A slightly disjointed post. The useful Librarytecholgy.org website by Marshall Breeding announced the eXtensibleCataloge project has just released a number of webcasts in preparation for their soft...
Earlier this week the Jisc 2009 Conference went ahead. A one day summary of where things are going in Jisc-land. Like last year, I got a good feel of the day via twitter. I used a web app called m...
chriskeene
7 new followers in the last few hours. is it just me? wonder what triggered it.
- 3/10, 1pm
from twhirl
A sligthtly disjointed post. The useful Librarytecholgy.org website by Marsgall Breeding annouced the eXtensibleCatalogue project has just released a number of webcasts in preperation for their sof...
chriskeene
@ostephens yes it does. roughly started with [ http] is there a connection between it and apple script? eg [ http]
- 3/5, 1pm
from twhirl
chriskeene
Think e-resource librarians need a new closed list. Coyote-bluewells publisher just sent half arsed pathetic excuse and on one says a thing
- 3/4, 5am
from twhirl
Zoho.com is very impressive. The Web based Apps are of very high quality, there are many of them, and all this is such a small space of time. It makes Google Docs look rather poor. They are free (f...
chriskeene
@ostephens good point, but would require be to look at bloglines more than once a day, hmm, pehaps add to thunderbird...
- 2/9, 2am
from twhirl
It takes someone with a grossly over inflated ego, and thinks their website is a trillion times more important than it actually is to try and write a review of the previous year. What sort of does ...
It takes someone with a grossely over inflated ego, and thinks their website is a trillion times more important than it actually is to try and write a review of the previous year. What sort of does...
I've been wanting to write a lot about various things to do with politics and how it is structured for a long time, but with all the intertwinde, taking it on felt like a mamouth task. Well, sod it...
I've heard good things about PC/Mac clients for writing blog posts, so thought I would give it a go. I tried out ecto for OS X, to published to my Wordpress based blog. It did what was promised it ...
My Dearest Government, It is really quite simple. Sometimes you suggest things which will infringe our privacy and our rights. The average person will not like the of such things, but you will tr...
A while a go, I released a simple website which reported on the number of items in UK repositories over time. It collected its data from ROAR but by collecting it on a weekly basis could provide a ...
There are various rankings out there for UK Universities, all of which have their faults. So I've collected the results from a number of them, a ranking based on rankings, this should go some way t...
There are various rankings out there for UK Universities, all of which have their faults. So I've collected the results from a number of them, a ranking based on rankings, this should go some way t...
There are various rankings out there for UK Universities, all of which have their faults. So I've collected the results from a number of them, a ranking based on rankings, this should go some way t...
I was having a quick thought about the categories I use here. This is hardly the most popular blog on the planet though I have tried to use categories which match people's interests. e.g. someone f...
I was having a quick think about the categories I use here. I have tried to use categories which match people's interests. e.g. someone from Brighton can choose to read (and subscribe to) 'Brighton...
Radio Pop is an interesting experimental site from the fantastic BBC radio labs. It is a sort of soical network site for radio listening. It only records your listening through the 'radio pop' liv...
Of interest to those who use Wordpress (and those who have an opinion on web design). Had a few hours off this afternoon so have been playing around with Wordpress a bit. New plugins Google sit...
What's the top 20 Universities in the UK? What order would they come in? I want you to reply right now to this blog post and add a comment listing the top 20 Universities UK 1-20. I want people t...
Very first thoughts of blip.fm, and therefore not a proper review, and based on first impressions, not research. blip.fm is interesting but so far for me has proved a little frustrating in underst...
this is a 'thinking out loud' blog post. For years my to-do list survived as a combination of my email inbox and a bit of A4 paper which i would scribble lists on to and write numbers next to them...
A brief introduction for those who (a) are reading this (b) don't work in libraries. Every major library runs a large system that handles most of the core functions of the library. These are referr...
For a while I've wanted a better way to manage my (non Wordpress) webpages. I had been using Dreamweaver, with a local copy of the site and uploading changes, but this limited me to one machine and...
The table below shows number of Olympic gold medals (for the top three countries) as of 18/8/2008. It also shows the number of golds divided by total population (in millions, otherwise the numbers ...
BT seem to play on 'the safe default choice for the nation' image while charging high prices and miking it for all they can. For years they had 'technical problems' in letting anyone else put equip...
SQL is one of those things I always need to understand more than I do. Sometimes odd little problems can seem impossible with my limited understanding of the language. One such hit this me this mo...
A few years a go I created some new pages on the 'New England Quater', on the site of some old railway works next to Brighton station and near me. Originally the pages just had some photos of how t...
Living Blogging http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/ see http://is.gd/N8T or , in fact, see below... Update (8 July 2008): This is my first attempt at using coveritlive.com (as used very sucessfully...
I'll keep this short. For several years now, trying to access any information about Tesco broadband from the University of Sussex network have resulted in Tesco's servers showing 'Permission denied...
I mentioned in my last post that my current phone is a Motorola RAZR2 V8. I got this because of its shape (nice to hold), large screen and large keys. These may not sound like funky features but ar...
I want to talk more about mobile phones. Earlier I talked about why I think they have the wrong name, now I want to talk about 'the phones in my life', I can't promise this will be captivating read...
First up... The name is wrong. I hear people rant I don't want a camera on my phone. That's reasonable. I don't want my TV to make coffee. You say phone and people think thingy with numbers, a litt...
Well nostuff has been with Dreamhost for a while now, and they are responsible for running the dream. the dream was the of nostuff, which was, ummm, no stuff. They gave me so many goodies that I ha...
For a while I have been adding tags to my posts. Tags are good. People who tag things are good. I am Web 2.0. Only thing is they seemed to be going in to the ether, that is to say, users (that is ...
Factoid of the day: "Generally, England is over-elevatored" via 'Up and Then Down'
On a Saturday, I'm prone to remembering the fantastic News Quiz (or equally fantastic Now Show), which starts at 12.30 (why am I saying that, you know that right?), at exactly 1pm. At this point I...
The JISC and SCONUL have just released a Review (Horizon Scan) of Library Management Systems (LMS or ILS). Intersting stuff. A lot of stuff to be expected, and some interesting findings: Dire nee...
Just come across Wordpress WMU. Allows you to manage multiple Wordpress blogs within one installation, and do handy things like allow users to use the same account (with different permissions) acro...
Today was a browser day. Installed the IE8 beta. Not much to say on this. It looks very like IE7. has improved standards compliance compared with other versions of IE. I had read that there were p...
After coffee a little more talk about new features and the future as we ran out of time before. Christopher Gutteridge has now turned up, he may have had a few grown up fizzy drinks last night. (l...
At the sucks-less-than-dspace Eprints track today. First up Eprints 3.1 and Future. Haven't seen anything about 3.1 before this, v3 was released over a year a go so looking forward to seeing what i...
Today - as you probably have seen - I posted some badly written notes that meant nothing to no one, and interested even fewer. This was my experiment in live blogging. I've seen others do it quite ...
[again unedited, unchecked, sorry for mistakes!] Warewick Cathro Assistant Direct General, National Library of Australia [sorry didn't take very good notes for Warwick's good talk] "towards the ...
Rich Tags: cross repository browsing ds ECS, Southampton categories can be unhelpful, if you don't know it (LOC!) hard to see relate articles. solution, unified categories across repositories. Au...
again unedited/checked: I'm tagging with or08: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=or08&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d http://technorati.com/search/or08?authority=a4&language=en ...
again, unedited or checked. draft notes: ian mulvany -nature (who produce connotea) - speaker. david kane - Waterford Institute of Technology openid semantic web, very useful to get data from, b...
I'm at Open Repositories 2008. Got in to southampton central at 8:15am, for a 9 start, thought i had loads of time but wait for bus, journey, and wondering around campus only just got here for 9. ...
For a while now I've been running a weekly script which connects to ROAR and grabs the number of records for each UK based Institutional Repository. I've finally got around to writing a web front e...
Google released an API for their Book Search at the end of last week. You can implement this in two ways: static (just linking to a URL with a ISBN inserted) or dynamic, which basically means using...
I helped someone set up sky broadband. They supplied the (decent) router for free, it came nicely packaged with everything you could possibly need and a very clear full colour guide. The modem/r...
When I go to a website with a new look I think 'cool' (unless of course it isn't), yet it seems I'm in a minority. Even when you consider that unhappy people are more likely to complain than happy ...
You may have already seen that a while a go I had a little play with the Talis Platform, and specifically a 'store' on the platform called ukbib which holds bibliographic records. I've written some...
Apparently the London Review of Books isn't a London based magazine which reviews books. I say this not as a joke, oh you cultral ones. I really do think it is justified of me to presume a publicat...
...or Northern Rock. ho ho ho There has been zillions of stuff in the press of late about our friends Northern Rock. They had the genius of rapidly increasing their mortgage business, and instead...
Brilliant set up blog software, so that anyone can register as a poster and post what ever they want, anonymously. Call it anonyblog.com Perhaps even have a few google ad boxes on it As the wo...
BBC Newswatch was set up after the Hutton whitewash inquiry as a place to monitor and feedback on BBC News. It seems that recently it has had a bit of a slimming down, with many parts of the site b...
Today I met Lisa on the Networkrail website. We had a nice chat and, I thought, got on quite well. It became clear very early on that Lisa liked questions. And I knew that the secret of good conv...
I was recently asked to set up a blog for a group at work. They wanted the latest headings from the blog to appear as a small list on a intranet page. I used MagpieRss to do this. By using the exam...
First of all, click on this (it may be Microsoft but it is more powerful than google maps, it pains me to write). Very near to me there is a newsagent . I like this, in fact it is one of the reaso...
Libdems like to make out they are something different to the rest of the parties. I found it interesting that when the BBC (rather nicely) provided profiles of the likely candidates for Party lead...
In August I signed up with Dreamhost. Until now I have used Freedom2surf's web hosting service. I originally signed up with them as they seemed a good company (and still do, though now owned by pi...
A few days a go I was bored. I had read loads about the 'Talis Platform' a open standards 'you can talk to it with an API' type thing that holds data, and shares it with you (or more to the point, ...
Well they probably do. Heck admit it, they haven't got a clue. Instead they just ban random people (and treat them like shit)
Airports positioned so that landing aircraft kill everyone on the beach are cool!: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rLMMLmfVa-k http://uk.youtube.com/watch...
In 2002 I bought a rather shiny sony laptop. FX705 I think, can't remember. Sony had a wide range of laptops at the time. this was the budget range. It was/is heavy, looks less sexy than the averag...
Amazing what you can get on ebay... Click on the image below for a bigger version...
This was kicked off when I was asked to recommend a broadband service for someone. Their use would be low and they needed cheap. Wasn't that interested in download caps or speed (so I don't really ...
See this Argus article: New council leader spells out his party's priorities, from the article: Review Labour's plans for a rapid transport bus system while re-examining the monorail project Re...
I use the wonderful Analog for web stats. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated for a while (2004 in fact). However I noticed that some kind soles on the mailing list have updated analog so that it...
Good news, Euston station is to be rebuilt. Always rather a depressing place to travel through, and the poorer cousin of the other major stations. Suprissed to see this though when these sorts of t...
The Tory's have a majority, but not overall control. How? Look around you and play spot the tory voter. Sure there are quite a few well off people, but vastly out numbered by those who look 'bright...
I live in the Preston Park ward in Brighton for the May 2007 elections. A couple of days a go I had received anything from any party so went for a look on the net. Labour Conservatives: Two sit...
FIP is basically the world's best radio station. Fact. It plays a random mix of decent new music, jazz, more cool music, with no adverts, or DJs, or anything except a news bulletin at the totally l...
Yesterday I posted a link to the reviews page of Katie Price and Peter Andre's A whole new world. In what can only be proof that Jeff Bezos himself is reading my blog on a daily, no - i correct my...
Shameless "read it there post it here"(there = b3ta): Read the reviews of Katie Price and Peter Andre's masterpiece Supermarket monopoly (Waitrose is everywhere in E Sussex and that is good with ...
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/ Never understood those people who thought a signature is better than a pin.
Found both of these on Phil Bradley's blog. first is http://www.addtoany.com/ which can produce a button like this, which will link to a page with every kind of "add to [rss reader]" button you wi...
List of countries by external debt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (see also CIA World factbook). This is not good.
BBC NEWS | England | Branson in Gatwick Express call This is just one article covering the plans to make changes to the Gatwick Express service, as part of a wider review of use of the line capacit...
Imagine a small independent cafe on a high street. There's a one day market and fair outside, and at the end of the day one of the stall owners walks in for some coffee and the staff comment on his...
Tom Roper knows everything, reads clever stuff, seems to have an impressive range of music taste and gets technology. Generally the sort of the stuff that makes illiterate uncultured un-witty peopl...
SQL is one of those things I rarely use, and it's normally the simple stuff, but doing anything a little more complex can be non-obvious. For example, I had a bunch of URLs where I just need to upd...
whitney music box (look they move and everything)
I was on this Mobile Reviews - O2 page just now, when I noticed firefox showing it was trying to contact 127.0.0.1, that for those who don't know, is a special IP address which points to 'localhost...
Ask Yahoo! - Best of 2005 The link above goes to the 'Best of 2005' page. Only just found this site, but seems useful for future work avoidance.
Old Ordnance Survey Maps : website showing UK maps from the 1920s, uses the google maps api to provide an interface and to show the same location on a current map.
[2008: this blog post was written in 2006, the link no longer works and the functionality described can now be found in other websites] PlanajourneyScotland: Basically a journey planner like any o...
Really just pointing to other places on the web regarding Talis' recent talk and paper on the of library 2.0, based on the behind 2.0. I found most of these after doing a search on Technorati. ALA...
Can Europe still compete in technology? - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com. Interesting view from the colonies. In a way it is no suprise that the main stream US media is downplaying Europe. Bu...
BBC NEWS: Davis wants England-only voting. Something I agree with (I'm agreeing with David Davis??). Having a seperate English parliment for issues that only apply to England (due to other parlimen...
I've always been impressed with the way Sweden and other nordic countries seem to balance a successful economy while providing very high public services and social care.
UpMyStreet.com's neighbourhood profiles are pretty good. Here's what they say about my area: Neighbourhoods fitting this profile are found primarily in Inner London in Westminster, Camden, Isling...
So, a couple of years a go we had a teacher shortage crisis, today we are still short of teachers, recruiting from all over the world to fill the shortage. With such a high demand, those who do not...
Google Reader. Summary: nice way of reading your favorite blogs and news sites. Keyboard short cuts are great. The less good bits: no way to mark all posts as read, usefuil if haven't read for a c...
Time to take stock on how much I rely on my google drip of goodness and tools. What happens if they take it away from me. Cold turkey like. I would die dear reader. die. Any way, So for work I us...
Something I bumped in to when playing with geourl... Worldkit, displays a world map, and can display various long/lat co-ords on to it, the cool thing is that the points it plots (and the Urls thes...
Mulberry achieved something which is pretty hard. It made telnetting to the IMAP port of your mail server seem like an enjoyable user experience. I hated it. Half the inferface was just odd, the o...
Have been trying out the deer park alphas for firefox of late. One reason is that firefox has always been a little sluggish on my laptop, especially when swapping between applications, (though fine...
Added this feed of dribble (hereafter called 'my blog') to technorati, bloogz and Feedster... which is nice (why do you read this thing?)
Apparently we ('we' being the mightly and superior south of england, not to be confused with north of england backward types) have a regional assembly. When? why? Actually I'm slightly interested...
Wish you were all grown up and could play with stocks and shares? now you can (ish) with Yahoo's buzz game. The value of 'stock' (a tech keyword) goes up as more people search for it. I keep losing...
While I'm on this subject (which is a stupid thing to say as anyone reading this - 'anyone' = 'me and only me' - will be reading top down, ie newest first, ie will be unaware I was on the subject.....
a million years a go (1999?) M25 came along with a union search for most academic libraries in my part of the world. which was good, especially when looking for something obscure. At the time, I t...
so I check my web logs. Being a dry backwater of the web i was hoping to see my slow trickle of hits, but no, millions...ish had been here in April so far. six times more than normal. what high qua...
Google maps UK (niiice), in a higher league than multimap and streetmap and the lesser know map24
The new craze is finnally here - one of the bast sites that can give you the things you've allways wanted to get - watchees, repliccas to be correct, of the bast brand s in the world! Impress you'r...
About 15 billion years a go things kicked off, like Continental drift, big nasty meteoroids killing poor fluffy dinosaurs, general world-being-created stuff, and of course blogging becoming trendy....
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