Comments for Neil's old CETIS blog

Comment on Goodbye by rowin

rowin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:15:50 +0000

You’ll be missed, it’s been great working with you (and I’ll miss your posts).

All the best for the future.

Comment on Goodbye by Sheila

Sheila — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:25:31 +0000

Bye Neil, we’ll all be sorry to see you go. Thanks for all the great posts.

best wishes

Sheila

Comment on Instant mash by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:36 +0000

This is something we have thought about at Jorum, geo-tagging resources or cross mapping to related topics. Maybe in the future.

Comment on Jorum opens up by Instant mash | Neil’s blog

Instant mash | Neil’s blog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:11:14 +0000

[...] us to submit ideas for mash-ups, as reported on the BBC Technology website. For educational use, I blogged previously about the idea of seeing learning object origin on a map, so when looking in Jorum, for example, a [...]

Comment on Mail-only repositories by neil

neil — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:49:32 +0000

Mmm, it’s a bit reliant on Google (in my case) but it’s a lot easier than carrying a pen drive around. I’m sure that I would still do the same to backup my pen drive so might as well just cut it out of the loop altogether (unless, of course, I wasn’t guaranteed internet access somewhere).

Comment on Mail-only repositories by rowin

rowin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:33:11 +0000

Thanks for such an interesting post, Neil. It’s very interesting what you say about using email as a sort of ‘personal repository’, I do exactly the same thing of sending drafts of documents to myself – despite having a googledocs account and storage space provided by my institution which I can access from home as well as on campus. I’ve also lost more pen drives than I care to think about Before I started using Delicious I’d email links to myself too, still do occasionally if it’s something I want to follow up that’s not ‘worth’ saving. If that’s what people are actually doing then it certainly seems to make sense to build on that rather than creating shiny exciting things that they don’t use

Comment on Facebook: Saving Private Ryan (or Neil, or anybody else for that matter…) by Great expectations (lead to abandoned blog posts) | Neil’s blog

Great expectations (lead to abandoned blog posts) | Neil’s blog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:11:07 +0000

[...] to create a Facebook profile and use it within their MSc course. Back in March, I mentioned that Facebook had belatedly given users control among specifying how much information could be shared with each friend, as users were able to group [...]

Comment on Students these days… by Great expectations (lead to abandoned blog posts) | Neil’s blog

Great expectations (lead to abandoned blog posts) | Neil’s blog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:10:43 +0000

[...] this week, I highlighted something similar (albeit it with postgraduates), as students were encouraged to create a Facebook profile and use it [...]

Comment on CETIS MDR SIG Meeting (Bolton) by Richard Davis

Richard Davis — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:35:57 +0000

It’s amazing what you can do on a long train journey!

Thanks for organising an interesting day. I don’t get up your way much, so it was great to meet you all and find out what you are up to.

Comment on MDR SIG Meeting: 6th May, Bolton by da blog (ulcc digital archives blog) » Blog Archive » SNEEPing with CETIS in Bolton

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:04:36 +0000

[...] it’s Tuesday I must be in Bolton, at the JISC CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories Special Interest Group meeting, to present SNEEPish things to a much smaller and less daunting audience than in [...]