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Phong - it's awful, isn't it?

Phong – it’s awful, isn’t it? by Brian Kelly | Jan 3, 2007 | Accessibility Lawrie Phipps (now working at the JISC but formerly of the JISC TechDis service)

Writing Conventions For This Blog

Writing Conventions For This Blog by Brian Kelly | Jan 8, 2007 | Blog | 8 comments Is this a Blog or a blog? Am I Blogging or blogging? And is the question

Other Blogs By JISC Services

Other Blogs By JISC Services by Brian Kelly | Jan 9, 2007 | Blog | 7 comments Following my recent comments on the TASI Lightbox blog I noticed an incoming

RSS Readers Used To View This Blog

RSS Readers Used To View This Blog by Brian Kelly | Jan 16, 2007 | Blog | 8 comments I commented recently that this blog had received 4,000 visits since it

IWMW 2007 - Call for Proposals

IWMW 2007 – Call for Proposals by Brian Kelly | Jan 12, 2007 | Events , IWMC My colleague Marieke Guy has announced the call for proposals for talks, works

Why WordPress?

Why WordPress? by Brian Kelly | Jan 17, 2007 | Blog | 2 comments A while ago Roddy MacLeod asked me why I’d chosen the WordPress to host my blog. After hav

Blogs - Theme Of The Week

Blogs – Theme Of The Week by Brian Kelly | Jan 15, 2007 | Blog | 1 comment As an ongoing experiment on ways of approaching use of this blog, this week I’ll

Comment Spam Sent To This Blog

Comment Spam Sent To This Blog by Brian Kelly | Jan 18, 2007 | Blog | 2 comments The WordPress.com com blogger service has an automated filter for spam sen

MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog by Brian Kelly | Jan 18, 2007 | Blog | 10 comments I recently added this blog to the MyBlogLog service. From my personalised MyBlogLog page I can

What Can We Learn From Facebook?

What Can We Learn From Facebook? by Brian Kelly | Jan 18, 2007 | Blog , Web2.0 | 5 comments Background Before Christmas I received an email from someone wa

Windows LiveWriter

Windows LiveWriter by Brian Kelly | Jan 19, 2007 | Blog | 3 comments There was a recent posting on the JISC Involve Blog which commented favourably on the

SiteMeter Added To Blog

SiteMeter Added To Blog by Brian Kelly | Jan 22, 2007 | Blog | 1 comment Something I should have done when I launched this blog was to add a stats counter.

A Team Or An Individual's Blog?

A Team Or An Individual’s Blog? by Brian Kelly | Jan 23, 2007 | Blog | 3 comments If you are thinking about providing a blog service for your project, your

Third Party or Institutional Provision of Blogs?

Third Party or Institutional Provision of Blogs? by Brian Kelly | Jan 24, 2007 | Blog | 17 comments Scott Wilson (a blogging pioneer at CETIS) reviewed his

Song Of The Week To Accompany The "Blog" Theme

Song Of The Week To Accompany The “Blog” Theme by Brian Kelly | Jan 22, 2007 | Blog | 6 comments Song Of the Week My song of the week is “ 100,000 Miles ”

Experiments With Meebo

Experiments With Meebo by Brian Kelly | Jan 25, 2007 | Blog | 4 comments I mentioned previously that I’d installed the Meebo sidebar widget in order to exp

Meebo - A Follow-Up

Meebo – A Follow-Up by Brian Kelly | Jan 26, 2007 | Blog , Web2.0 I recently described my experiments with the Meebo chat widget. I’ve just had a chat with

Theme of the Week: Evaluation of Blogs

Theme of the Week: Evaluation of Blogs by Brian Kelly | Jan 29, 2007 | Blog This week I thought I’d give some thoughts on the evaluation of the effectivene

Policies For This Blog

Policies For This Blog by Brian Kelly | Jan 31, 2007 | Blog | 3 comments I suggested recently that there’s a need to define the role(s) of a blog if any me

A Meta-Policy For Institutional Blogs

A Meta-Policy For Institutional Blogs by Brian Kelly | Feb 1, 2007 | Blog | 1 comment I recently published my Policies For This Blog . The comments I recei

Blog Experiments

Blog Experiments by Brian Kelly | Feb 2, 2007 | Blog The policy for this blog describes how the blog will be used to carry out various experiments. Such ex

Blogs or Email for Discussions?

Blogs or Email for Discussions? by Brian Kelly | Feb 9, 2007 | Blog , standards | 2 comments I recently sent an email about a bug in the Feed Validator sof

Finding Out About OpenID

Finding Out About OpenID by Brian Kelly | Feb 12, 2007 | Web2.0 There has been a lot of discussion recently about OpenID. It’s clear that this is an area I

Viral Marketing: From Store Wars To Web 2.0

Viral Marketing: From Store Wars To Web 2.0 by Brian Kelly | Feb 15, 2007 | Web2.0 | 9 comments The Store Wars Video I was told about the Store Wars video

UK Library Bloggers and ILI 2007

UK Library Bloggers and ILI 2007 by Brian Kelly | Feb 8, 2007 | Blog | 3 comments It has been very pleasing to see the flurry of interest in my posting on

Email Subscription Service For This Blog

Email Subscription Service For This Blog by Brian Kelly | Feb 19, 2007 | Blog , RSS | 5 comments Roddy MacLeod recently pointed out the difficulties end us

RSS And The Hero Portal

RSS And The Hero Portal by Brian Kelly | Feb 13, 2007 | RSS | 17 comments I recently received a copy of “Hero Headlines” which contains news from Hero Ltd,

Tweaks to Blog Sidebar Widgets

Tweaks to Blog Sidebar Widgets by Brian Kelly | Feb 21, 2007 | Blog | 1 comment I have previously described use of the Meebo sidebar widget. Although I rep

Outlook 2007 - A User-Friendly Interface To RSS?

Outlook 2007 – A User-Friendly Interface To RSS? by Brian Kelly | Feb 22, 2007 | RSS | 14 comments I recently suggested that services, such as R-info , whi

UK Universities On MySpace

UK Universities On MySpace by Brian Kelly | Feb 23, 2007 | Web2.0 | 19 comments Andy Powell alerted me to Warwick University’s presence on MySpace . Is thi

Green IT: Meeting the Environmental Challenge

Green IT: Meeting the Environmental Challenge by Brian Kelly | Feb 26, 2007 | Events UCISA have just announced that bookings are now open for the Managers

Web 2.0: What Can It Offer the Research Community?

Web 2.0: What Can It Offer the Research Community? by Brian Kelly | Feb 27, 2007 | Events | 16 comments Web 2.0: What Can It Offer the Research Community?

Instant Messaging Interface To Applications

Instant Messaging Interface To Applications by Brian Kelly | Feb 28, 2007 | Web2.0 | 2 comments Back in the days when WAP was exciting (hmm, did I really w

A Blog Plugins Used Page Would Be Useful

A Blog Plugins Used Page Would Be Useful by Brian Kelly | Feb 26, 2007 | Blog | 3 comments I recently came across the Net 2.0 blog (through the recently la

February 2007

Instant Messaging Interface To Applications by Brian Kelly | Feb 28, 2007 | Web2.0 Back in the days when WAP was exciting (hmm, did I really write that? Le

The Web: From Childhood to Early Adolescence

The Web: From Childhood to Early Adolescence by Brian Kelly | Mar 2, 2007 | Web2.0 | 11 comments We are now seeing the Web developing from its childhood to

Dapper - Web Mashup Development For All?

Dapper – Web Mashup Development For All? by Brian Kelly | Mar 3, 2007 | Web2.0 | 13 comments I’ve never been a fan of the mystique that you sometime find w

Benefits Of Uploading Your Image To Technorati

Benefits Of Uploading Your Image To Technorati by Brian Kelly | Mar 13, 2007 | Blog | 1 comment How do you ensure that your blog stands out in a page of se

Slideshare Repository and PDFs

Slideshare Repository and PDFs by Brian Kelly | Mar 28, 2007 | Repositories , Web2.0 | 8 comments I recently discovered that the Slideshare service (a repo

IT Services Reinventing Themselves

IT Services Reinventing Themselves by Brian Kelly | Mar 15, 2007 | Web2.0 | 3 comments I gave a talk on IT Services: Help Or Hindrance? at the UCISA Manage

Snap Preview Facility

Snap Preview Facility by Brian Kelly | Mar 30, 2007 | Blog | 8 comments A WordPress feature which is enabled by default is the preview of the destination o