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Twitter time travel
Unlike some of my peers I never bothered making any kind of backup of my Twitter activity. I’ve treated it as something disposable for the most part – with anything with staying power surfacing elsewhere (usually here on this blog.) That said curiosity got the better of me and when Twitter offered the chance to download…
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Crowdfunding a Conference?
An email conversation with Gez Smith reminded me of something today that has been rattling around in the back of my head for a while. Since Kickstarter launched in the UK I’ve had this vague idea about whether it could be used to take some of the risk out of organising some kind of event.…
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The ‘unacceptable’ cost of a website
While not at the scale of the notorious Birmingham City Council web project from ’09 the revelation via FOI website What Do They Know today that the Bristol City Council website cost £700k plus includes a £90k annual support contract has kicked up a bit of a kerfuffle in my Twitter stream. The project to rebuild the…
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Greeting the Gateway to Research
This time last year BIS launched the Innovation and Research Strategy and made the first public mention of a ‘gateway to research‘ that would openly provide data about all Government funded research via the web. [somewhere along the way the ‘Gateway to Research‘ became a bit of a brand in a way I am pretty sure…
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Wondering about workflows..
In my long history with content management systems one of the things that comes up time and time again is the idea of ‘workflow’. This always surprises me as in my experience it is the first piece of functionality that either gets turned off or worked around on every CMS I have been involved in!…
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