Tom Smith
Tom Smith is now helping improve collaboration at the University of York.
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Produce, Organise, Consume
I think what I’m trying to sort out in my mind is what are the main skills that people need when being introduced to all the loveliness of Web2.0. Looking back the components might have been… Having a blog or … Continue reading
The Death of Delicious
Apologies for another “Death of…” post… just getting a few things off my chest. I was a Delicious user ( theOTHERblog ). I used it for years, often I wasn’t sure why but somehow it felt like I was building … Continue reading
My Death of the RSS Newsreader
I’ve been saying for a while now, that in terms of “information revolutions” we’re on the brink of the third wave. The first was about simply accessing information , the second about publishing information and the third is about manipulating … Continue reading
Illuminating York 2010
It’s the time of year when I moan about the overall rubbishness that is Illuminating York ( see my 2009 review here.. missing images though) and I’m going to say the same things all over again, so I’ll keep it … Continue reading
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Sociable Innovation and Neanderthals
I went to a public lecture at the University of York on Neanderthals last night, it was about using archeological evidence for signs of caring and even love in earlier times. It seems that a large part of the research … Continue reading
Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent
Less than four days to go until Killing Joke’s new album, Absolute Dissent, is available for download and I already love it. Someone on Twitter said that it was all a bit meta, listening to Killing Joke sound as if … Continue reading
Funny Sort of Day
Today someone wrote to me asking if I’d be up for writing a detailed usability review of a site and that they’d need it by Monday… for free. Someone else wrote asking (very nicely) for advice in selling photographic prints. … Continue reading
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Killing Joke – In Excelsis
Anyone that knows me knows that this year I have been completely obsessed with listening to Killing Joke. I’ve listened to an album a day for almost every day for six months on my walk to work. I’ve even been … Continue reading
Collaborative Tools Project Report
All about the Collaborative Tools Project… as a PDF.
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7 Steps Towards Collaboration
I’ve been thinking about how best to “tell the collaboration story” from a practical standpoint. And it occurs to me that often people look at the tools and approaches and ask “what’s in it for me?” … when the better … Continue reading
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Plone’s Steep Learning Curve
Warning: This isn’t really a blog post it’s just a long boring moan Almost 10 years ago, this blog was developed in Zope. It wasn’t big or clever and it’s why (to this day) my URLs still have “/Articles/” in … Continue reading
Maps, Mobile and Instant Backchannels
Whoo hoo! Doing OpenStreetMap based stuff in Plone works (thanks to some pointers from Giorgio Borelli). Here’s two offices, mine and Alistair’s in Heslington Hall added to the University of York map. Perfect! Interestingly ANY Plone object can have coordinates … Continue reading