Flickr extinguished
It’s been a long time since I uploaded a photo to Flickr. It was once my go-to photo service but after various changes of ownership and pricing I lost interest.…
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Like the idea of Facebook University?
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) last week published an article on the possibility of Facebook, Google and other tech companies offering degrees in the UK. Not as outlandish as…
Reflections on the 1:AM altmetrics conference
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…
Institutional VLEs, why bother?
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…
Conference Twitter overwhelm, is it just me?
I was at a conference recently that was actively promoting the use of social media including Twitter. Most conferences do these days it seems. It was a good opportunity to…
Happy birthday Opportunity
Ten years ago today I wrote a short blog piece to note the landing of the NASA Opportunity rover on the surface of Mars. With the Spirit rover already on…