Blogger Alan Levine recently commented on the problems of social media and web applications letting you down just when you need them. In Don’t Cry When Social Media Flops, Just Move On he talked about what happens when the tool you use goes down, particularly in the context of conferences
Twitter is a quick messaging or microblogging service. Basically it’s like a web-based texting or short message service. You have 140 characters to say something briefly. Your series of short messages or “tweets” becomes a record of what you are doing and thinking that other people can “follow”. Many Twitterers
A new search engine launched this week which claimed to be a challenger to Google. Cuil (pronounced Cool) was developed by former Google search experts. It claims to combine the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. The launch was not without
Central ITV news filmed me in a mini workshop at a school in Nottingham. Yesterday the story ran on prime time local news about the search by a group of young French artists to find the artist who drew Fat Gourg in our Kids on the Net project, Monster Motel.
Our project Kids on the Net features today in the Leicester Mercury. In one of those strange but heartwarming Internet stories, a monster (“Fat Gourg”) created by a seven-year-old, Luke, during a writing workshop at a Leicestershire Primary School led by Reach Further’s Helen Whitehead in 1999 has become something
Teaching and Learning resources from QIA: includes material from the teaching and learning subject packs. http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/ Intute.ac.uk is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. Results of search for “Motor Engineering” New Engineering Foundation http://www.neweng.org.uk/resources.asp?id=9 http://failte.ac.uk/FAILTE aims to provide
Following the publication of Dr Tanya Byron’s report Safer Children in a Digital World for Ofcom, much is being said in the news media about the dangers for children online. Parents are being frightened into believing the only safe solution is to sit beside their child whilst they are online,
I’m glad to see that Facebook has added a privacy page where a lot of settings can be altered to make your information more private. It’s important on any social network that you’re a member of to make sure that you are aware of the information that friends, members and
Once upon a time, in the early days of the Web, we used to create web pages that could be updated directly by users, and use them for wonderful collaborative projects and to comment on one another’s websites. But that was ten years ago, before the terrible blight on the
We all have our strengths, and we all have areas of web development which we aren’t as interested in. I know good web design when I see it, but I am much more interested in web strategy, content design, Web 2.0, community building etc. so I tend to like to