Last week, I posted a quick demo of how to visualise data stored in a Google spreadsheet in Many Eyes Wikified (HEFCE Grant Funding, in Pictures). The data I used was the latest batch of HEFCE teaching funding data, but Joss soon tweeted to say he’d got Research funding data up on Google sprea...

One of the things that attracts me to serialised feeds (as well as confusing the hell out of me) is the possibility of letting people subscribe to, and add, comments in “relative time”… … that is, as well as viewing the content via a serialised feed, the comments feed should ...

No time for blogging properly at the mo - too much crappy crap “work” crappy crap to do - but looking through some recent comments on WriteToReply just now, I saw this one: a trackback from a blog post - Money Programme - Media Revolution: Tomorrow’s TV - that reviews a recent episode ...

As Downes starts to commission he daily/serialised feed platform, here are a few more fragmentary thoughts about feeds and feed items… If we are to construct uncourses out of separate “blog posts” (that is, out of small chunks of content that can be sensibly represented as independ...

Chatting to Simon Perry of the Ventnor Blog over a pint at the Yarbridge Inn last week, he mentioned that recording of the Isle of Wight Council Planning Committee were available on the Isle of Wight Council website, albeit in an obfuscated and hard to find way (you know the sort of thing: a full st...

I’ve just been watching the following video from the Open Rights Group (ORG) on copyright extension, and realised something… [Via Ray</a.] …something that’s probably obvious to anyone who lobbies against this sort of thing (extending copyright of works to prevent them from...

In When One Screen Controls Another I pulled together a few links that showed how devices like the iPhone/iPodTouch might be used to provide rich UI, touchscreen interfaces to media centres, removing the need for on-screen control panels such as electronic programming guides and recorder programming...

Okay - here’s a throwaway post for the weekend - a quick sketch of a thought experiment that I’m not going to follow through in this post, though I may do in a later one… The setting: “the box” that sits under the TV. The context: the box stores bits that encode video i...

In Library Analytics (Part 7), I posted a couple of ideas about how it might be an idea if the Library started crafting URLs for the the Library resources pages for individual courses in the Moodle VLE that contained a campaign tracking code, so that we could track the behaviour of students coming i...

I’ve been a fan of the potential of augmented reality for some time (see Introducing Augmented Reality - Blending Real and Digital Worlds for some examples why…) but there have so far always been a couple of major stumbling blocks in the way of actually playing with this stuff. One has been the ...