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Smoke and mirrors, or good intentions?

Posted on February 20, 2009 by paulwalk

Update: Karen’s presentation has now been made available. Yesterday, despite the best intentions of Worst Great Western, I travelled to the British Library in London to hear Karen Calhoun, Vice President WorldCat and Metadata Services at OCLC presenting on Working … Continue reading →

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Facebook wants your attention, not your photos

Posted on February 18, 2009 by paulwalk

There has been something of a furore over a recent change to Facebook‘s terms of service (ToS). The Consumerist reported this as Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”. The change in … Continue reading →

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Making developers happy

Posted on February 13, 2009 by paulwalk

Since I joined UKOLN two years ago, I have frequently claimed that we (JISC, the sector, our community) don’t do enough to support and listen to developers. Well, I’m just back from The Developers Happiness Days (dev8D) in London and … Continue reading →

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Library hackers FTW

Posted on November 28, 2008 by paulwalk

Yesterday I went along to Mashed Library UK 2008 in London. Quickly abbreviated to ‘mashlib’, the event was the brain-child of Owen Stephens. Owen did most of the organising, aided by David Flanders who provided the space at BirkBeck college, … Continue reading →

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Quite Resourceful?

Posted on October 24, 2008 by paulwalk

I spent half an hour this morning experimenting with QR barcodes, prompted by Andy Ramsden who is running a small test/survey. I used various iPhone clients to try to decode and make use of three QR codes printed on a … Continue reading →

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Why I suppose I ought to become a Daily Mail reader

Posted on October 19, 2008 by paulwalk

It’s Sunday evening…. Brian Kelly recently resurrected the debate about Facebook and its use in an HE context. I know he’s on the road at the moment so I suspect he dipped into his blog post ‘reserve’ for this one … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 30 years of UKOLN

Posted on April 7, 2008 by paulwalk

This coming Thursday (10/04/2008), UKOLN will be celebrating its 30th anniversary, in an (invitation only) event at the British Library Conference Centre, London. Participating will be current and ex-staff, and a wide variety of people with whom UKOLN has worked … Continue reading →

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The selfish application

Posted on October 23, 2007 by paulwalk

Some time ago, several of my friends in Facebook installed the ‘MyQuestions’ application: this application allows the user to pose a question and invite answers from their friends. Significantly, in order to answer a question the friend must, in turn, … Continue reading →

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No degrees of separation?

Posted on October 8, 2007 by paulwalk

I recently got spammed invited to participate in Karl Bubyan’s Six Degrees of Separation application in Facebook. This application navigates the ‘social graph’ in Facebook, offering a couple of tools to allow the user to test the ‘Six degrees of … Continue reading →

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eScience All Hands 2007 – final thoughts

Posted on September 16, 2007 by paulwalk

I very much enjoyed the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007 last week. Being new to many of the disciplines covered there, I went with an open mind. I learned a bewildering amount, and realised that there are all kinds … Continue reading →

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