Lori DeFurio, Developer Evangelist from Adobe gave us a wonderful showing of all the new stuff coming with Acrobat 7. Here is the Adobe page that explains the day: This probably won’t stay live for too long
I was particulary impressed with the RSS feeds into Acrobat and the potential to give some extra Reader functionality through the ‘LiveCycle’ server. This is going to cost far too much though!
At the launch of the UK version of the Creative Commons licencing system today, Lawrence Lessig gave a very lucid presentation of the system and its history. The London launch took place at UCL and was attended by many IT and publishing media gurus. Damian Tambini of Oxford University explained that the UK versions of the Creative Commons licences will be available on November 1 2004.
Today I am at the eLearning conference, hosted by my university.
We are told that ‘e’ is for embedding and enhancing and so the day is less about the technology more about the pedagogies for eLearning. Matt Justice, who works at the Ryerson University, Canada told us the the ‘e’ is for evolution. ‘e’ is also for enabling according to George Roberts.
The diversity of presentations through the day made me think that ‘e’ is not for easy!
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.
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.
