Relics of a past age. These posts have endlessly broken links, broken grammar and broken points of view.
March 3, 2010
Mystery Solved
We recently (well, last summer) launched Aquabrowser as our main …
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November 26, 2009
ircount development
I’ve finally got around to spending a bit of time on the ircount code. …
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November 21, 2009
Twitter clients
From about an hour after signing up to Twitter until very recently I …
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November 17, 2009
Apple Automator
Automator on OS X is one of those things I use about once a year, but …
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November 16, 2009
People power : twitter is highlighting & affecting important issues.
A few weeks a go (why, the 12th Oct in fact) I was sitting at my …
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September 19, 2009
Google Reader – shared stuff
I’ve been using Google Reader for a while having jumped ship from …
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September 15, 2009
University league tables combined data
Last year I collected the University League tables published from …
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August 18, 2009
Brighton New England Quarter Photos
I don’t think we’re that good at recording the world we live in …
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July 12, 2009
PubSubHubbub instant RSS and Atom
I have just come across PubSubHubbub via Joss Winn’s Learning Lab blog …
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July 11, 2009
Amazon AWS EC2 and vufind
Today I saw a tweet from juliancheal, which mentioned he was setting …
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June 3, 2009
The Data Imperative: Libraries and Research Data : comment
I put this in to a seperate post. It continues on from my previous …
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June 3, 2009
Event: The Data Imperative: Libraries and Research Data
Today I’m at the one day event ‘The Data Imperative: …
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May 29, 2009
Research in the Open: How Mandates Work in Practice
Today I’m at the RSP/RIN Research in the Open: How Mandates Work in …
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May 27, 2009
Library search/discovery apps : intro
There’s a lot of talk in the Library world about ‘next generation …
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May 26, 2009
Free e-books online via University of Pittsburgh Press
The University of Pittsburgh Press has put nearly 500 out of print …
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May 14, 2009
ircount : Repository Record Statistics
I’ve updated Repository Record Statistics (which I refer to as …
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April 24, 2009
Linked data & RDF : draft notes for comment
I started to try and write an email about Linked Data, which I was …
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March 29, 2009
Academic discovery and library catalogues
A slightly disjointed post. The useful Librarytecholgy.org website by …
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March 9, 2009
short urls, perl and base64
One of my many many many faults is coming up with (in my blinkered …
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March 3, 2009
webpad : a web based text editor
So I have WordPress (and in fact Drupal, Joomla, mediawiki, Moodle, …
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February 12, 2009
Library catalogues, search systems and data
Below is an email I sent to UK Library e-resources mailing list …
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January 25, 2009
2008 : nostuff.org under review
It takes someone with a grossly over inflated ego, and thinks their …
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December 12, 2008
“Sitting on a gold mine” – improving provision and services for learners by aggregating and using ‘learner behaviour data’
I’m at a workshop today called “Sitting on a gold mine” – improving …
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December 4, 2008
Mashed Libraries
Exactly a week a go I was coming home from Mashed Libraries in London …
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November 13, 2008
Playing with OAI-PMH with Simple DC
Setting up ircount has got me quite interested in OAI-PMH, so I …
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October 29, 2008
naughty boys and lots of sheep
I Don’t normally write about this sort of thing, but this is crazy. …
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October 21, 2008
ircount : new location, new functionality
A while a go, I released a simple website which reported on the number …
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October 16, 2008
Top UK Universities : Combined Rankings
There are various league tables out there for UK Universities. I’ve …
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October 13, 2008
Navel gazing
I was having a quick think about the categories I use here. I have …
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