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Radio Pop
Radio Pop is an interesting experimental site from the fantastic BBC radio labs. It is a sort of soical network site for radio listening. It only records your listening through the ‘radio pop’ live...
View ArticleTop UK Universities : Combined Rankings
There are various league tables out there for UK Universities. I’ve collected the results from a number of them, a league table based on league tables. This should hopefully help to remove any biases...
View ArticlePlaying with OAI-PMH with Simple DC
Setting up ircount has got me quite interested in OAI-PMH, so I thought I would have a little play. I was particularly interested in seeing if there was a way to count the number of full text items in...
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short urls, perl and base64
One of my many many many faults is coming up with (in my blinkered eyes – good) ideas, thinking about them non-stop for 24hours, developing every little detail and aspect. Then spending a few hours...
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JISC, Monitter and DIUS (Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills)
Earlier this week the Jisc 2009 Conference went ahead. A one day summary of where things are going in Jisc-land. Like last year, I got a good feel of the day via twitter. I used a web app called...
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Amazon AWS EC2 and vufind
Today I saw a tweet from juliancheal, which mentioned he was setting up his virtual server on slicehost. I hadn’t heard of this company but their offering looks interesting. This got me thinking about...
View ArticlePubSubHubbub instant RSS and Atom
I have just come across PubSubHubbub via Joss Winn’s Learning Lab blog at the University of Lincoln. It’s a way for RSS/Atom feed consumers (feed readers etc) to be instantly updated and notified when...
View ArticleUniversity league tables combined data
Last year I collected the University League tables published from various sources and combined them in to one spreadsheet. I’ve been updating this for this year, i.e. tables published in early/mid 2009...
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Twitter clients
From about an hour after signing up to Twitter until very recently I used Twirl on both PC and Mac as my Twitter client. I was happy with it, and still am, but had noticed people using other clients...
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Adverts that follow you
Now one of these days I will finally get my ‘moving flat’ epic published, in the mean time you can read my how to buy a property guide. It really is worth every penny. Part of this process involves...
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