Monthly Archives: February 2007

What is on TV tonight

How many times do you ask yourself – Is there anything on the telly? And no, the answer isn’t “a penguin” Frankie Roberto has launched a “micro service” called “On TV tonight” which isn’t another listings site, it’s a highly … Continue reading

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The novelty of blogs is wearing off

According to jill/txt, the novelty of blogs is wearing off…. in formal education: this is in a course where the topic of the first half of the course is blogging, where they have to include two blog posts in their … Continue reading

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Action Research to develop Wikiversity

My friend Gordon just alerted me to an Action Research project to develop Wikiversity, which is pretty exciting for me being so close to my own research interests on the application of action research methodology in a distributed environment. Developing … Continue reading

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Wiki Patterns

Via Enterprise irregulars, Wikipatterns.com This was quite an exciting discovery, a group of people trying to put together a pattern language about wiki adoption. This is quite similar in many ways to what I have been developing on the DARwiki’s … Continue reading

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Wiki Wednesday and Forest Friday

I’ve got two evening appointments to write about this week. London Wiki Wednesday is the first since last March, when I spoke about my online exhibition and barn raising. It’s at 29/30 Fitzroy Square, in the shadow of the BT … Continue reading

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The Art of Threading

On a listserv, mailing list or similar, have you ever been accused of hijacking somebody else’s thread and wondered what on earth they are talking about? One possibility is a side effect of systems which bridge between email and web … Continue reading

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Bernard Mathews food scare

A local pub, The Golden Fleece has a new sign up behind the bar which reassures restaurant customers that no Bernard Mathews products are used in their kitchen. Funny how a couple of weeks ago the giant turkey factory was … Continue reading

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