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A Web Management Wake
Last night I attended a strange kind of conference after-party. It was in fact more like an after party (or a wake) for an organisation. After almost two decades of service to HE geeks (especially of the library and web variety) UKOLN is soon to shut its doors and as a consequence of that this…
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Open for business
So over at the day job we continue to get put through the ringer a little bit. The latest media moment was from City AM (a strange article that had some completely valid points amongst some very strange observations.) Since I started I have been determined that we would work in the open and that…
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The RSS Roundabout
I think it might have been Mr Briggs who recently said on Twitter something like “if nothing else Google closing Reader has reinvigorated the RSS market”. Sounds like something he might say smart chap that he is. I have probably used Google Reader more than any web service other than Twitter and Gmail. It has…
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Three of a kind [230613]
Words This piece by Justin Jackson maybe one of my all time favourite things I have read on the web. It sums up my feelings about things more articulately than I could ever manage. Despite everything at its heart the web is all about words and that is what makes it special (to me…
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Dream (digital) destinations
As I tend to travel solo I am prone to taking the ‘busman’s holiday‘ route. I like to tie my holidays in to events or activities not a million miles away from what I do for a day job to give things some structure amongst the sight-seeing and drinking 🙂 It also gives me something…