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Influence a National Service – In 140 Characters by UK Web Focus on Nov 6, 2009 in Twitter 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 2009 Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) asked Joy Palmer a que...

An Opportunity to Open Up Institutional Data? by UK Web Focus on Nov 4, 2009 in openness 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 major modernisation of England’s degree syste...

Talk at Edspace Event, University of Southampton by UK Web Focus on Nov 3, 2009 in Events Repositories 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 sharing” to be held on Wednesday 4 November 2009. I hav...

Policies on Drugs, Open Standards and Web Accessibility by UK Web Focus on Nov 2, 2009 in standards 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 that cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and toba...

The Third Anniversary of the UK Web Focus Blog by UK Web Focus on Nov 1, 2009 in Blog 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 have a record of the current status) and  briefly r...

Forecasting Trends Backwards by UK Web Focus on Oct 28, 2009 in General Twitter ili2009 “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 that the byline for the article was positive about...