Andy Roberts - Distributed Action Research with communities of practice and social objects

Free UK Domain with Free Hosting (1)

21/8/10 •

A free .co.uk domain name with free web hosting and website building tools Does that sound too good to be true? The site is called “Getting British Business Online” and is run by a collaboration between Enterprise UK, Google, BT and e-skills UK, with the support of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. So [...]

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I Declare Google Reader Bankruptcy (4)

20/8/10 •

I’ve just gone and done it, I’ve declared Google Reader bankruptcy. That means not only that I’ve marked hundreds of unread items as read (I do that regularly anyway) but that I’ve unsubscribed from everything and deleted all tags and folders as well. Here’s the screenshot to prove it: I’m sure it’s not difficult to [...]

Ten More Things to do in London on Bank Holidays (0)

19/8/10 •

Things to do in London August Bank Holiday Weekend With another Bank Holiday coming up and the weather looking typical for August, I thought I’d compile another inspiring ten things to do in London. Some are obvious but worthwhile, while others are more unusual things to do in London that you might not know about [...]

Weather Photography Competition (8)

04/8/10 •

I've just heard about the British weather photographer of the year competition and decided to enter myself. This provided me with a nice opportunity to look back through my photographs of the summer on Flickr to see if I could find something appropriate. I browsed through my pictures of rain and a few summer seaside [...]

London Bike Hire Bicycles Arrive (3)

29/7/10 •

London Bike Hire Bicycles Arrive The London bike hire bicycles are arriving on the streets of London after some well publicised delays. The London scheme is much smaller than the Paris public bicyle hire scheme on which the idea is based, but at least it’s a start. “Barclays Cycle Superhighways” compared with the Paris scheme. [...]