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More on the Year of Code

Posted on January 11, 2012 by cpjobling

As mentioned earlier, code and how to create it has become a bit of an early meme this year. As reported by the BBC and The Guardian, UK Education Secretary Michael Grove has announced a shake up of the Schools … Continue reading →

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What to do at home in Swansea when your intranet’s unreachable

Posted on October 2, 2009 by cpjobling

While working at home I wondered why I couldn’t connect to the new Plagiarism Awareness site recently announced by RSC Wales. Later I decided I’d do some work on Blackboard and found that I couldn’t connect. Odd, I thought! So … Continue reading →

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Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

Posted on June 16, 2009 by cpjobling

I’m probably a few days late in bringing this to your attention, here goes anyway! In the Google IO Conference 2009, Google previewed a really interesting new, open-source, open-potocol platform for collaboration called Google Wave (wave.google.com). This video recording of … Continue reading →

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Fire!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by cpjobling

 Today, just as I sat down to eat my lunch of a bowl of soup and a sandwich, the fire alarm went off in Fulton house. It wasn’t a drill, but it wasn’t a fire either! Apparently, a fire detector … Continue reading →

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Disruptive Technologies: Digital downloads, iPlayer and Google Friends

Posted on June 2, 2008 by cpjobling

In today’s Guardian and Media Guardian there where three articles about how Web technologies are having disruptive effects on traditional media and even (in one case) on one Web 2.0 poster-child technology itself. Here’s a quick summary with links to … Continue reading →

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The view from here

Posted on June 28, 2007 by cpjobling

Seen in today’s Guardian is news of the impending July 27th release of the BBC’s new content-on-demand iPlayer. Unfortunately, acording to the article and Guardian blogger Bobbie Johnson, it won’t run on Vista which adds it to a growing list … Continue reading →

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Heroes: Sir Tim honoured (again)

Posted on June 14, 2007 by cpjobling

Announced on the W3C news site yesterday (13th June) and just today spotted while trawling my RSS feeds, is the news that Sir Tim Berners-Lee (TBL) has been appointed as a member of the Order of Merit by H.R.H. Queen … Continue reading →

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