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Annotating the web: Diigo vs. Google Sidewiki
For a long time, I’ve been the sort of person who tends to read and absorb information, without really wanting or needing to scribble notes down. This is probably because my background has been maths and computing, and the elegance of mathematics as a language is in its ability to express big ideas and small [...]
Reader poll: how do you follow blogs?
I have several reasons for writing this post. Chief among them is curiosity: I like pulling the universe to bits and poking it to see what happens, and I’m genuinely interested in finding out how readers of this blog actually keep up to date with the blogosphere. Second, I’ve spent a lot of time in [...]
Mobile blogging with Posterous
Followers of my twitter stream will have noticed that over the last few days I’ve been posting to my Posterous account from Shrewsbury Folk Festival.
Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace
If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I [...]
Quickie: new Twitter client, Tweetie, released for Mac
I’ve been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I’ve graduated from interacting with it purely through the Twitter site, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.
On my iPod touch, I’ve been using a client by the name of Tweetie [...]
Does Wikipedia have a place in education?
Like it or loath it, people use Wikipedia. Some use it as a quick reference for unimportant matters, or as a jumping-off point for more detailed research. Some use it, inappropriately, as a source in its own right: English Heritage was recently criticised by Building Design magazine for citing a Wikipedia article as evidence in a [...]
Teaching with social media: engaging the audience
Do you like having an audience? I know I do: that’s at least part of the reason I’m writing this blog post.
The social web has greatly lowered the barrier to entry for those of us who want an online presence, and given us the greatest possible chance of reaching an appreciative audience through, for example, [...]
Ask yourself: "What is this for?"
I heard an interesting anecdote a while back. I don’t know how true it is, but bear with me because it serves to illustrate a point. The story goes that when the first motion-picture camera was invented, it was intended to be used to create photographs in which the people could move, smile, wave, whatever; [...]
Beginners guide to Twitter Part III: cool tools
Time for the third part of my beginners guide to Twitter. Here’s how far we’ve got:
Twitter basics: messages, followers and searching; Confusing conventions: @s, #s and RTs; Useful tools to make your Twittering life easier (this post).
Today, I’ll be making a whistle-stop tour of some [...]
Beginner's guide to Twitter Part II: @s, #s and RTs
So, here’s the second part of what’s become a three-part introduction for new Twitterers. Here’s where we are so far:
Twitter basics: messages, followers and searching (yesterday); Confusing conventions: @s, #s and RTs (this post); Useful tools to make your Twittering life easier (coming tomorrow).
Let’s get [...]
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