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Playing with Google Search Stories
Google have released a little app that allows you to quickly and easily create a little version of their Superbowl ad (and the various other similar versions they have) called Search Stories. It is quite good fun and could almost certainly be used to be something educational and useful. I haven’t done that. My little…
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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…