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JISC10 Jottings
On Monday and Tuesday this week I attended the JISC Conference at the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster, London. It was my 7th JISC Conference in a row. For four of them I was the overall project manager (though in reality people like Grace did most of the work and I just got stressed), one…
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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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[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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