I was thinking about the evolution of blogging, Web 2.0, and all its ramifications approaches to self-presentation and representation online – from effusive, barely literate teenage gurglings, like those at MySpace, to more sober, considered outpourings such as you find here at Relocution – and, suddenly, I remembered him: the Turkish Guy. We [...]
Ten years since I wrote this short essay for my computing course at Birkbeck, Autumn 1996. Seems old hat now, and a bit quaint in places (we now have that HHGG: it’s called Wikipedia!) but I think it was good enough in its day. Covering (however briefly) 500 years of history in a short Computing [...]
We’ve been discussing E-Portfolios as part of the E-Learning course, and had a look at several examples of same, and considered the different purposes to which they might be put. Skipping over the interesting and complex issue of “high stakes” uses to which they might be put within education (i.e. for cumulative learning or assessment [...]
JISC have just announced a Town Meeting in Birmingham on Wed 11th October, in respect of their current capital programme in the field of E-Repositories, E-Learning, E-tc. Hope to be able to go, assuming we can come up with some bright ideas first…
When scientists write poetry, the results can be every bit as risible as when arty types get out of their depth in the scientific. Here’s an example par excellence: Stevan Harnad, Professor in Computing at Southampton University, is also a tireless campaigner for Open Access to scientific research. A worthy cause, for which he has [...]
It’s supposed to be getting easier to use the ever growing number of online academic journals, libraries, databases, and other resources – isn’t it? Let’s see.
Today, I see that in his Open Access News, Peter Suber has blogged an interesting article, viz A checklist for evaluating open source digital library software, Online Information Review, [...]
Douglas Coupland’s JPod has some extremely witty – maybe just a tad cynical – observations about work-place culture. His thoughts on meetings are particularly entertaining:
Here’s my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic – they put uncreative people in a [...]
University of Kansas has an excellent online repository system with superb resources, including
Intellectual Property
Suggested text for author addendum to publisihing contracts:
Notwithstanding the above language, I reserve the right to use this work in my teaching and research, for my colleagues at the University of Kansas to use this work in their teaching and research, and [...]
Wondered why my otherwise nippy PC was grinding to a halt. Turned out I had this page of the Register open in a background window. Its flashy Flash graphics for mobile phone ads and the like were sucking up over 95% of my CPU. When I quit it, browser CPU dropped to nearly 0. Think [...]
It passed me by while I was away in New York, but it turns out the battle of the Apples appears to have ended in victory for the candy-colored Californian variety. The verdict surprised enough people, though, that the home-grown beatle-ridden Granny Smith variety is considering a peeling.
Far more entertaining, however, was the tale of [...]
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