Monthly Archives: August 2007

From Google to gaggle

By Craig | Published: August 13, 2007

From the Guardian Unlimited. People quoted in featured stories on Google’s US news site now have the right to reply, marking a fundamental shift in the search engine’s role (link).

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What is Web 2.0 and Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)?

By Craig | Published: August 12, 2007

A good article from the Melbourne Age; although this doesn’t only effect ‘corporate computing’. (link)

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Intute: FREE Internet tutorials for the Arts

By Craig | Published: August 10, 2007

Intute has just released eight new FREE Internet tutorials for the Arts and Humanities in the Virtual Training Suite. The tutorials, authored by university subject specialists, are designed to help students develop Internet research skills for their university or college work, and can be used by lecturers and librarians to support their courses. 1) Internet [...]

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Digital resources in the Arts and Humanities, Dartington College UK, 9-11 September

By Craig | Published: August 9, 2007

A brief reminder that this year’s conference on Digital resources in the Arts and Humanities will be held at Dartington College of Arts, 9 – 11 September inclusive. Visit the conference website at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07 now to see the draft programme and register for this unique and extraordinary event. * Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order) *Paul [...]

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The Portable Film Festival

By Craig | Published: August 8, 2007

A tiny word from the people at Portable. www.portablefilmfestival.com Speak to anyone who has attended a free bar event recently and you’ll find out it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Especially when that good thing is champagne. But here at Portable we deal in content not alcohol, and we’re chucking [...]

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The Art of Building Virtual Communities

By Craig | Published: August 7, 2007

A article on building an online community building. There is a lot of this stuff out there now; it has become as important as the actual software that enables the communities themselves. Anyone who has ever thrown a party or held a meeting has had this unvoiced fear: what if after all the work of [...]

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Social networking boom reaches the workplace

By Craig | Published: August 4, 2007

After years of socialising, Facebook and MySpace mean business. The sites, which started as a way to help people stay connected with friends, in the past year have begun catering to professionals, offering networking and advertising opportunities (from the Melbourne Age).

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