Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Exactitudes
Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek have created this site to show forms of dress code. To which social group do you belong? The grouping of these individuals is really striking.
PhotoMemes.org
A good place to start looking at sites based on an ‘infectious’ idea. You’ll find a good definition of a meme at Hyperdictionary. A good example is the Mirror Project
Shutterbug
This is the most popular photoblog on PhotoBlogs.org today.
ziboy.com
You might like to see what life looks like in Beijing.
Posted on 21 Jan 2004 around 2pm •
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Sunday, December 14, 2003
At the Digital Technology & Heritage Conference at the University of Bath we were delighted to discover that the Oakfield Campus in Swindon is the home of the Museum of Computing.
This has only been going since February 2003 and has many gems including this Research Machines 380Z.
A sense of nostalgia came over us as we fondled the rubbery keys of the long forgotten Sinclair Spectrum.
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Posted on 14 Dec 2003 around 9pm •
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Monday, December 08, 2003
I have seen recently a demo of the British Library ‘Turning Pages’ system for displaying books. Go to their web site and take a look here. There seems to be this trend for making the sense of turning the page of an electronic book as realistic as possible and I thought I would take a look round and review the scene.
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Posted on 08 Dec 2003 around 4pm •
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003
I gathered an enormous collection of trade show trinkets at the Online-Information show in London yesterday.
I was amazed at the amount of merchandising that goes on for these trade shows. I do wish that they would give away tee-shirts rather than this assortment of sweets, pens and squeezy balls.
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Posted on 03 Dec 2003 around 9am •
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Wednesday, October 29, 2003
In the days when Hypercard was the only authoring tool around, we got used to the idea of presenting information ‘one screen at a time’. Hypercard, like other authoring tools that followed needed a metaphor to help us think of screens of information. Hypercard used the card metaphor. A bunch of cards was called a stack. So we thought in terms of a pile of cards and we presented them one after the other.
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Posted on 29 Oct 2003 around 9pm •
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About PageToScreen:
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
Also see my web site about my boat AViVA. This was built with iWeb (not exactly to web standards but interesting tool for web building).
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September 10, 10 - 08:17 am
Apple has relaxed restrictions on app dev tools. Maybe RunRev mobile will be useful after all. RunRev http://bit.ly/cbLF3i
September 09, 10 - 08:25 am
I went to the Web Teaching Day report with some useful links http://bit.ly/9AiGcm #wtd2010
September 09, 10 - 08:22 am
Just bought "HTML5: Up and Running" ePub for my iPad. Who needs print anymore? http://oreil.ly/9yGoOF
September 06, 10 - 11:13 am
#wtd2010 Standardistas need a new course but University of Ulster cannot accept the proposals for political reasons. Needs blended approach
September 06, 10 - 10:52 am
#wtd2010 http://j.mp/d44CxV
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