I have been doing some background reading on open access and was alerted to a new initiative by PLoS, entitled PLos Currents an”experimental” site for posting preprints of papers on hot topics. The first ?Current?…
Quick postscript to my posting from last month on the enduring web: a useful note from the 21 July workshop on web archiving has been published in the latest issue of Ariadne.…
Web archives need to become a seamless part of the experience of using the web; they are the web’s corporate memory.…
I attended NMK?s user-centred design course yesterday led by Jane Austin, which gave a very good overview on focusing on your users as the key element to be considered when designing and constructing a new website.…
I?ve bitten the bullet and joined Twitter, after being inspired by an excellent training course run by the Strategic Content Alliance and the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) about Improving your online presence.…
An interesting article by Tom Wilde published in Search Engine Land discusses how Web 3.0 is changing the way content is provided on the web and what challenges this might have for publishers.…
The RIN has started a new project on the use and relevance of Web 2.0 tools for researchers.…
Google has published its year-end search figures, the Google Zeitgeist 2008, which looks at the most searched terms on their engine.…
A recent article in Businessweek by Don Tapscott, discusses his new book Grown up digital: How the Net Generation is changing your world (2008), and looks at the future of higher education and the way in which the web is changing the way people think and&nb…
It is becoming increasingly difficult to get away from blogs; they are everywhere and it seems that most people have one or at least read one on a regular basis.…
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