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Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Tag Archives: mylifeonline
Building a course reading list in Grazr
After reading OpenLearn Unit Content Feeds via OPML and Click On Series 2 by Tony Hirst (both of which use Grazr: “Easy feed grazing and sharing”), I was today inspired to create a del.icio.us bookmarks and RSS feed aggregator for … Continue reading
Why didn’t I think of that?
In my pursuit of procrastination (I’m supposed to be writing supplementary [summer resit] examinations) I’ve been through my feeds and am now watching Stephanie Booth’s excellent Google Tech Talk on Localization (which incidentally is a trickier problem than most English … Continue reading
Switching from Desktop to Online Tools
Tom Johnson strkes a chord with his latest blog posting on i’d rather be writing wherein he talks about moving from desktop to online tools. Here’s his list which of tools, many of which I find I am already using … Continue reading
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First-step with Yahoo! Pipes
I’ve been reading a lot recently about Yahoo! Pipes so I thought I’d give it a try myself. I created a simple feed aggregator by merging the RSS feeds for my Google reader starred items, del.icio.us, and the RSS feed … Continue reading
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A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 4)
Serendipity: or the fundamental interconnectedness of all things[The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for. – Douglas AdamsWhen reading my … Continue reading
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A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 3)
In my previous article in this series, I described how I use the All Items mode in Google Reader to efficiently wade through a large number of articles from my subscribed-to RSS feeds. In this article I show you how … Continue reading
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A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 2)
This is Part 2 in a planned series of essays on living life online. Part 1 is here. The whole series is tagged mylifeonline for ease of access. Reading the News I read the news today, oh boy – John … Continue reading
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A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 1)
Introduction Over the last year or so I have been dipping my toes more and more into the on-line world and experiencing first-hand the Web 2.0 phenomenon. I thought it was time I formally started to report my experiences and … Continue reading
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