Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Dec 14, 2009, 1:28 am
A Twitter Account For This Blog A few days ago I created the @ukwebfocus Twitter account which will provide an automated feed of posts from this blog. But isn’t the point of Twitter the conver...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Dec 11, 2009, 12:19 pm
Trending on Twitter Yes it’s true, last night I was a trending topic on Twitter.  I was notified of this by Andy McGregor who, in his tweet: “http://twitpic.com/sz71b – Brian Kelly...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Dec 9, 2009, 3:00 am
Tweetmeme It was on Tony Hirst’s OUseful blog that I first noticed the Tweetmeme icon. This service provides an indication of the number of tweets (and retweets) to your blog (or Web site). As...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Dec 8, 2009, 4:20 am
Google To Provide Realtime Search “Stating obvious. google+real time search = critical for organizations to be on twitter/facebook” summed it up nicely. This tweet from @Aarontay referred...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Dec 7, 2009, 2:00 am
Three Related Conference in One City Last week, as I mentioned previously, I attended the Online Information 2009 conference, held in Olympia London on 1-3 December. But this wasn’t the only c...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Dec 4, 2009, 10:35 am
Online Information 2009 I summarised my thoughts of the Online Information 2009 conference in a tweet: Back home after gr8t #online09 Thoughts: #semanticweb was the highlight & relevant for early ma...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Dec 1, 2009, 1:55 am
Background On Saturday morning I received a number of Twitter messages informing me that my Twitter account had been hacked, with a number of spam messages being sent from my account. The message (wh...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 30, 2009, 3:00 am
I’ve received a number of emails recently from people who wish to make use of Twitter to support an event.  Rather than sending an individual reply I thought I’d publish my suggestions he...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 24, 2009, 11:54 am
This morning, as normal, I switched on my iPod Touch just after getting out of bed and downloaded tweets posted overnight. And via a tweet from Jonathan O’Donnell I discovered that during the ni...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 19, 2009, 2:59 am
A the recent CETIS 2009 conference I attended a session on “Universities and Colleges in the Giant Global Graph” facilitated by Adam Cooper. There was a feeling that the initial discussion...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 17, 2009, 2:19 am
About My Talk at the UCISA CISG Conference On Friday 20 November I’m giving a talk on “What If Web 2.0 Really Does Change Everything?” at the UCISA CISG 2009 Conference. I’ve...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 16, 2009, 3:05 am
Last week I attended another enjoyable CETIS conference. The event, which this year had the theme Brave New World?, provides a valuable opportunity to catch up with old colleagues, but faces to names ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 13, 2009, 2:00 am
It was via a referrer link on a post on the Open Culture blog that I came across the Topsy service (isn’t serendipity wonderful). This service describes itself as “A search engine powered ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 11, 2009, 1:44 am
The W4A 2010 conference has announced its call for papers. The theme for next year’s event, which will be held in Raleigh, USA on 26-27 May, is “Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 9, 2009, 2:09 am
Back in May I wrote a blog post entitled “Not Your Father’s IT Innovation!“. My post referred to Andy Powell’s thoughts on “The role of universities in a Web 2.0 world?”...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 6, 2009, 1:47 am
How long might it take to influence a national service?And what approaches would you take if you wished to do this?  Well let me give an example of how Twitter can be used. On Thursday 5 November 20...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 3, 2009, 11:53 pm
It was while I was waiting for the bus home last night and skimming though the afternoon’s tweets that I noticed here had been a lot of activity around Lord Mandelson’s announcement of a m...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 3, 2009, 2:00 am
I have been invited by the JISC-funded Edspace project, based at the University of Southampton to give a talk at an event on “Traditional educational repositories v. Web 2.0 resource sharingR...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 2, 2009, 4:40 am
Over the weekend we’ve been hearing about the squabbles between the Government and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council, argued th...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Nov 1, 2009, 3:00 am
The UK Web Focus blog was launched on 1st November 2006.  A year ago I summarised how the blog had developed in its first two years. In this anniversary post I will document some statistics (so I ha...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Oct 28, 2009, 11:27 am
“Forecasting for the Future” was the title of an article published in the recent issues of the JANET Newsletter (No. 9, September 2009 – PDF format). It won’t surprise people ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Oct 26, 2009, 3:33 am
WordPress, in a post somewhat confusing entitled “The Hero Is In Your Pocket“,  have recently announced that they have “launch[ed] a couple of mobile themes that will automatically...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Oct 23, 2009, 2:32 am
I’m now back from a few day’s at Aberystwyth University, where I had been invited to speak at the launch of the HEFCW-funded Gwella project and to give a seminar on “The ‘High...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Oct 14, 2009, 3:11 am
RSS Usage On Welsh University Home Pages Last year I published a blog post which provided a summary of usage of RSS feeds on Scottish University home pages. The survey was carried out in July 2008, s...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Oct 13, 2009, 3:54 am
Top Technology Trends for Libraries and Information Professionals Later this week I’m taking part in the Internet Librarian International (ILI) Conference in London. In addition to running a worksh...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Oct 5, 2009, 1:01 am
Background In a recent post on the eFoundation’s blog Andy Powell wrote about “Flocking behaviour – why Twitter is for starlings, not buzzards“. Based on the statistics I had ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Oct 2, 2009, 1:00 pm
After a gap of 11 months the guest blog post returns with a post by Jenny Evans, Liaison Librarian: Maths and Physics at Imperial College. Jenny provides a background to two blogs (to support the Phys...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 30, 2009, 2:46 am
The announcement of the availability of a video summary of the event reminded me of the opening F-ALT session, held on 8 September in the Lass O’Gowrie pub  (a pub I always try to get to when...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 29, 2009, 2:29 am
On 6 September 2008 I published a post entitled 100,000 Views which documented the date of this blog having received 100,000 views according to the usage statistics provided on the WordPress.com site....
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 28, 2009, 5:00 am
The Need For Evidence We know that technologies have the potential to provide many benefits, but this potential is not necessarily also realised. We therefore need to gather evidence in order to info...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 24, 2009, 3:00 am
I was recently alerted to a blog post on TechCrunch entitled “Tweetboard Launches Twitter Client And URL Shortener“. The article described how this service “lets you create a Twitter...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 23, 2009, 2:45 am
Last week I gave a talk entitled “From Web Accessibility To Web Adaptability” at the RNIB’s Techshare 2009 conference. I have already posted about this talk and described how I had c...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 21, 2009, 5:07 am
The Oxford Social Media Conference The Oxford Social Media Conference, held on Friday 18 September 2009 at Said Business Centre, University of Oxford, was one of the few events I’ve attended th...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 20, 2009, 4:00 am
Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum Last Monday I attended a talk on “The Web Revealed” given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum as part of the centenary celebrations for 100 ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 14, 2009, 2:24 am
Back After A Week Away Last week was unusual – not a single blog post published in the week. Although there were suggestions at last week’s ALT-C 2009 conference that blogging is in decli...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 3, 2009, 6:02 am
Martin Weller and I will be facilitating a workshop session entitled “Realising Dreams, Avoiding Nightmares, Accepting Responsibilities” at the ALT-C 2009 conference. Martin and I met over...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 2, 2009, 5:00 am
A proposal for a talk I submitted to the RNIB’s Techshare 2009 conference has been accepted. The talk on “From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability” will be given on 17 September 20...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Sep 1, 2009, 1:07 pm
The headline in the Technology Guardian supplement read “Skype’s nightmare weekend highlights peer-to-peer fears” two year’s ago back on 23 August 2007. The article described h...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 28, 2009, 3:05 am
This Year’s ALT-C Conference I will be attending the ALT-C 2009 Conference at the University of Manchester in a couple of weeks time where I’ll be facilitating a session with Martin Welle...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 27, 2009, 3:09 am
As described on the On The Roof blog a video clip of the Fringe Frivolous Unconference is now available. The Fringe Frivolous Unconference took place on the evening of Friday 21 August 2009 on the ro...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 26, 2009, 3:41 am
The Science Online 2009 Conference On Saturday 22nd August  2009 I attended the Science Online 2009 Conference which was held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. The conference follow...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 25, 2009, 4:18 am
I have been asked to give a talk at a workshop session to be held at the Dublin Core DC-2009 conference on “Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data”. The invitation arose after my recent ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 20, 2009, 4:06 am
Happy Birthday PowerPoint was born 25 years ago, on 14 August 1984. An article on the BBC News Magazine, entitled “The problem with PowerPoint” points out that “They’re often ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 19, 2009, 3:32 am
I recently posed the question “Are University Web Teams Too Large?“. The context to this question was a suspicion that the UK HE sector is lagging behind smaller US colleges in exploiting ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 18, 2009, 3:31 am
I have been invited to give a talk on “The Use of Blogs and Wikis in Scholarly Communication” ALPSP 2009 conference to be held at the at the The Oxford Belfry, Milton Common, Thame on 9-...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 17, 2009, 3:10 am
This year, once again, we provided a live video stream of the plenary talks at IWMW 2009, something we have been doing since IWMW 2006. But how many people watched the live stream? Last year 160 remo...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 13, 2009, 2:04 am
Does The Ownership Of Social Networks Really Matter? In my most recent post entitled “Facebook Buys FriendFeed; Identica is Open Source; Does It Matter?” I asked “But how relevant ...
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Brian K. posted an article on UK Web Focus - Aug 12, 2009, 3:30 am
As described on TechCrunch a couple of days ago, Facebook Acquires FriendFeed. The Monkey Bites blog advises “Let’s Be Friends in its article on how Facebook acquired FriendFeed. But the react...
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