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[JISC] Weeknote 8/33
Due to the Easter bank holiday and the (wonderful) University of Bristol closure day on Tuesday this a very short week. It also had a strange feel to it as so many members of staff had extended their breaks and it felt a bit Marie Celeste like at times. One nice side effect of this…
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Tagxedo Wordcloud of Debill
Having a play with the new wordcloud generator that the Wordle creator Jonathan Feinberg calls; not so much an alternative as the next generation of Wordle, and a “leap forward” in both the layout algorithms and the design of the tweaking interface. It is alot of fun and offers an awful lot of customisation options.…
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The Coming of the X-Net
So the Digital Economy Bill was passed last night. Despite a well organised and well supported online campaign the majority of MPs simply did not engage in the debate and passed the bill with very little understanding of the potential damage it is going to do to the ‘real’ digital economy (not the backwards looking…
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[JISC] Weeknote 7/33
Weeknote 6/33 was a no-show as I was on annual leave that week and while I could write an update on vodka, champagne and Erdinger consumption and Twestival attendance it probably is inappropriate for this format. Week 7/33 inevitably consisted of a fair bit of catching up. As I have mentioned before JISC is a…
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BERG, Popular Science+ and the coming of the iPad
A few months ago BERG released a video that displayed their vision of how a magazine might work on the then mythical Apple Tablet. Called Mag+ it was very much a ‘concept’ video and I guess I wasn’t alone in thinking it had as much chance as being a reality as some of those concept…
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