UK Web Focus
Blog URL http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
Located Bath, Avon United Kingdom
Tags Web2.0, Web 2.0, UKOLN, JISC, Standards, Accessibility, BATH
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus adviser at UKOLN, University of Bath, provides his reflections on the Web and Web 2.0.
Latest Blog Posts
- Time To Experiment With Dbpedia? on Nov 19, 2009 in Linked Data
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 discussions had perhaps focussed too much on detailed techn...
- UCISA CISG Talk on “What If Web 2.0 Really Does Change Everything?” on Nov 17, 2009 in Events Web2.0
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 written my slides and uploaded them to Slideshare (...
- Signals from CETIS09 on Nov 16, 2009 in Events General
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 Ive come across online and make new connections. T...
- Topsy – and Who is Tweeting About You on Nov 13, 2009 in Twitter Topsy
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 by tweets“. Here’s an illustration of...
- Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems? on Nov 11, 2009 in Accessibility
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 Problems?“. The context to the conference is...
- “Web 2.0 Will Change Everything!” But How? on Nov 9, 2009 in Web2.0 UCISA
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?” in which he suggested that “if Web 2.0 cha...
- Influence a National Service – In 140 Characters 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...
