Category: technology

BBC 15 Web Principles

Tom Loosemore, the head of the BBC’s Web 2.0 project, talked at a conference that I gave a gave a demo of ICT Guides at yesterday (called the JISC Conference) on the BBCs web initiative. He has developed a set of good practice principles for the BBC’s Web 2.0 initiatives, which respects the web as…
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March 14, 2007

digital humanities, education, humanities computing, internet, media, social media, technology, web2.0
Enterprise Wiki

OK, lets kill email. Here is an article for the Age iin Melbourne about enterpirse wikis. Sean Killeen works the wiki way. Like many modern executives Mr Killeen – the head of global product management at Australian hearing implant maker Cochlear – gets hundreds of emails a day, half of which are destined for the…
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March 6, 2007

social media, technology, web2.0, wiki
Fast Facts Found Online

This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald today. There is a small quote from myself on the use of Wikipedia for research. David Adams talks to four Australians who have helped to build the collaborative online giant that is Wikipedia. NEXT time you’re sitting at the computer – it may even be as you’re…
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February 23, 2007

education, internet, media, open source, social media, technology, web2.0
Fidel Castro Search Engine

Cuba built an internet search engine that allows users to trawl through speeches by Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other government sites, but does not browse web pages outside the island. The search engine (www.infosoc.cu/buscador) unveiled at a conference last week underscored restrictions on internet access in communist-run Cuba, which the government blames on US…
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February 19, 2007

internet, media, political communication, politics, technology, web2.0
Summit on Digital Tools in the Humanities

This site from IATH (the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) at the University of Virginia contains the findings of a summit held in 2006 about digital tools in the humanities. The report is excellent reading; and points to the need for innovations in the humanities such as ICT Guides (link) Digital tools are…
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February 16, 2007

design, e-science, education, events, humanities computing, software, technology, web2.0
A Day at Oxford

I spent yesterday at Oxford University learning XML-TEI. Oxford Computing Services has a number of fantastic courses and rather than simply being service-orientated-computing as in most institutions, the Oxford Computing Service has a research agenda as well (with a much deeper focus upon computing in the humanities). The course was taught by Lou Burnard; one…
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February 14, 2007

education, humanities computing, technology

Category: technology

BBC 15 Web Principles

Enterprise Wiki

Fast Facts Found Online

Fidel Castro Search Engine

Summit on Digital Tools in the Humanities

A Day at Oxford