I recently attended 1:AM, the first altmetrics conference, and I am still considering what I learnt from the various perspectives presented by publishers, funders, policy makers, librarians, and researchers. One impression…
As part of a current debate on the role of the LMS and the VLE in an agenda of openness, Amber suggests that VLEs can be many things but they are not…
Social Media Information Overload by Mark Smiciklas, on Flickr I was at a conference recently that was actively promoting the use of social media including Twitter. Most conferences do these…
Opportunity rover selfie. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. Ten years ago today I wrote a short blog piece to note the landing of the NASA Opportunity rover on the…
As a research active academic I publish papers and engage in other research activities that hopefully have some impact. Just what that impact is and how to measure it will…
A custom of this now nearly dormant weblog is a post at new year. The first such post that I could find was for 2002. Back then I was using…