In my previous post about QR codes I made a couple of points which, after receiving some interesting comments, I’d like to expand on. “I see them [QR codes] occasionally on blogs/web-pages but I just don’t much see the point of that” Shortly after making this point, I suggested on a UKOLN internal …
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One-way bridges and interim solutions
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Quite Resourceful?
http://blog.paulwalk.net/2008/10/24/quite-resourceful/I spent half an hour this morning experimenting with QR barcodes, prompted by Andy Ramsden who is running a small test/survey. I used various iPhone clients to try to decode and make use of three QR codes printed on a sheet of paper. …
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Why I suppose I ought to become a Daily Mail reader
http://blog.paulwalk.net/2008/10/19/why-i-suppose-i-ought-to-become-a-daily-mail-reader/It’s Sunday evening…. Brian Kelly recently resurrected the debate about Facebook and its use in an HE context. I know he’s on the road at the moment so I suspect he dipped into his blog post ‘reserve’ for this one ;-). …
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Behind every Cloud is another Cloud
http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/behind-every-cl...used to refer to Internet based development and services. The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet. My colleague Paul Walk has identified a number of characteristics define cloud data, applications services and infrastructure in his recent blog post Any any any old data: Remotely hosted – Services or data are hosted on someone else’s infrastructure. Ubiquitous - Services or data are available from anywhere. Commodified – The result is a utility computing model similar to traditional that of traditional
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UK Web Focus
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.comaccuracy. I don’t want to have to care much where my cycles come from Paul Miller then expended on his views in a blog post on “ Welcome to the Data Cloud? ” and the following day Paul Walk responded with his post on “ Any any any old data“. This discussion got me thinking what should be in the cloud or, more generally, what aspects of IT can be provided outside the organisation? Some thoughts on the benefits of using a variety of outsourced services are given below: CPU
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Send in the clouds
http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/10/send-in-t...recent post to the ZDNet Semantic Web blog, Paul Miller goes on to talk about the possibility of a ‘data cloud’ – linking it to the idea behind the ‘semantic web’ – that is creating a web of data, all inter-linked. Paul Walk argued (and I’m inclined to agree), that you couldn’t talk about data in the same way as computing power – as you cared about data in a different way to your computing power – you would never accept just ‘any old data’. In a comment on this post
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Quick Response Time
http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/quick-response-...with Andy Ramsden, the head of Bath e-learning, and all his slides had QR codes on them. Andy Ramsden has called for people to experiment with QR codes and Paul Walk, our Technical Manager, has been having a go and recorded his thoughts on his blog. Paul ruminates: So, QR codes - what are they good for? There’s clearly some interest - I mentioned what I was doing on Twitter and got quite a bit of interest. But it’s still rare to come across QR codes in the wild. I see them occasionally on
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John’s JISCCETIS blog
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnrD-Lib Magazine Deposit, me, blog eFoundations Information Environment Team Inquiring Librarian JISC-CRIG feed Lifehacker Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog My del.icio.us OL Daily Optimal Scholarship Paul Walk's weblog Phil's JISC CETIS blog Questio Verum RepositoryMan Sheila's work blog The Register UK Web Focus Weibel Lines
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30-5-10
http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/09/26/30-5-10/Paul Walk
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UKOLN Home Page
http://www.ukoln.ac.ukA number of staff at UKOLN make use of blogs to support their dissemination and user engagement activities, either as part of UKOLN's core activities or to support project work. These blogs include: Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus Paul Walk’s weblog IE Demonstrator Blog Digital Curation Blog JISC-PoWR blog SUETR weblog
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RethinkingMedia
http://www.contentcantina.nl” Je hebt 1 miljoen euro om te investeren in een Nederlandse media-exploitant. Welke wordt het? “Ik zou gaan voor een mandje met !Ben/boost, Urulu en de eerste startup die iets goeds doet met ‘personal profile portability‘.” Marco Numan is creative bij SBS (”creating branded content & formats (TV, online & print)”). In het verleden bekleedde hij dezelfde soort functies bij Talpa en Endemol.
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RethinkingMedia
http://www.rethinkingmedia.nl” Je hebt 1 miljoen euro om te investeren in een Nederlandse media-exploitant. Welke wordt het? “Ik zou gaan voor een mandje met !Ben/boost, Urulu en de eerste startup die iets goeds doet met ‘personal profile portability‘.” Marco Numan is creative bij SBS (”creating branded content & formats (TV, online & print)”). In het verleden bekleedde hij dezelfde soort functies bij Talpa en Endemol.
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Lost in the JISC Information Environment?
http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2008/08/lost.ht...exists or it doesn't (that paragraph says both!) but the creation of services tends to indicate, to me, that it does. Whatever... it's an angels on the head of a pin type of discussion, best moved to the pub. In his response, Paul Walk suggests that all models are wrong, but some are useful, the JISC IE architecture being one of the useful ones, and broadly speaking I agree, though one might argue that the prescriptive nature of the architecture (or at least, the prescriptive way in which it has often been interpreted) has got us to a
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