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The UK Web Focus blog gives Brian Kelly's reflections on the Web, focusing on Web standards and innovations, Web 2.0 and Web accessibility.
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The Third Anniversary of the UK Web Focus Blog
The UK Web Focus blog was launched on 1st November 2006. A year ago I summarised how the blog had developed in its first two years. In this anniversary post I will document some statistics (so I have a record of the current status) and briefly r...
Viewing a WordPress Blog on a Mobile Device
WordPress, in a post somewhat confusing entitled “The Hero Is In Your Pocket“, have recently announced that they have “launch[ed] a couple of mobile themes that will automatically be displayed when your blog is accessed with a co...
Guest Post: Blogs At Imperial College
After a gap of 11 months the guest blog post returns with a post by Jenny Evans, Liaison Librarian: Maths and Physics at Imperial College. Jenny provides a background to two blogs (to support the Physics and Maths and Engineering departments) which w...
200,000 Views
On 6 September 2008 I published a post entitled 100,000 Views which documented the date of this blog having received 100,000 views according to the usage statistics provided on the WordPress.com site. I described how: “I’ve found it useful ...
If Not Too Large, Are University Web Teams Poor Communicators?
I recently posed the question “Are University Web Teams Too Large?“. The context to this question was a suspicion that the UK HE sector is lagging behind smaller US colleges in exploiting the potential of various Web 2.0 services. And may...
How People Access This Blog – 600 Posts On
This is the 600th post since the blog was launched in November 2006. As I have done a couple of times in the past, I will use this occasion to document some statistics related to this blog. How do people access the blog site? Well as the WordPress.co...
Defend this Tory MP (yes, really!)
Whilst reading the Guardian’s RSS feed on my iPod Touch on the bus yesterday I came across an article entitled “The internet – a threat to free speech?“. The opening sentence was intriguing “It’s probably not the best ...
You Care About Innovation? Then Tell Me What You Think, Not Who You Work For!
I recently commented how Twitter provides a means for not only finding out and discussing new ideas but also establishing and developing new professional relationships. And sometimes the contacts may take place initially in the blogosphere which can ...
Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs in Primary Shake-up
It was announced in the lead article in yesterday’s Guardian “Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs in Primary Shake-up” (and note this was the main section of the paper, and not the education supplement). There have already been a numb...
Metrics For Measuring The Impact Of Blogs
I have an interest in approaches to measuring the impact of Web 2.0 services such as blogs - and this is an area of work which is being discussed with our funders, JISC and MLA. The conventional approach when engaged in such activities could be to ca...
Guerilla Accessibility Researchers
The recent Dev8D Developer Happiness Days provided an environment for developers in the JISC development community (and more widely) to engage in rapid software development. As the “Dev8D produces rapid results” post described “Day ...
The Long Tail of the Topless Swedish Model
What is the usage profile like for a typical blog post on this blog? I suspect the statistics for the post on “Are You Able?” is fairly typical (although, as I confessed recently I did pimp up this post on Twitter. What we can see is the ...
Entering the Edu Blogger 2009 Awards
I know from recent discussions that some people don’t like awards being given to bloggers for various reasons (blogging is a personal activity; awards can be divisive; etc.). But although there may be an element of truth in such comments I als...
Impact Of This Blog On My Publication Record
Does The “Blogging Bug” Affect Academic Publishing? Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University, recently wrote a blog post on Blogging impacts on formal academic output in which he describes how the numbers ...
Should Projects Be Required To Have Blogs?
The Context Last week CETIS’s Mark Power started off a brief Twitter debate when he asked “Is the use of project blogs becoming too formalised by JISC? Still strikes me that many set one up simply because they feel they *should*“. A...
Growing Blog
I’ve just noticed that on 13th January 2009 the UK Web Focus was included in WordPress.com’s list of the top growing blogs. It’s been a while (over a year) since the blog was included in this list. I thought it would be interesting...
500 Posts and Counting
This is the 500th post which has been published on the UK Web Focus blog since it was launched on 1st November 2006. That comes to an average of over 4 posts per week since the launch just over 2 years ago. I’m pleased that I’ve maintaine...
Why I’m A Fan Of The Edublog Awards
I mentioned recently that the UK Web Focus blog had been shortlisted for the Best Educational Tech Support blog in this year’s Edublog Awards. As I commented in the post there have been criticisms of the idea of awards for blogging and Paul Wal...
UK Web Focus Blog Nominated For Edublog Award
I’m pleased to report that the UK Web Focus blog has been nominated for the Best educational tech support blog category of the 2008 Edublog Awards. In addition my colleague Paul Walk’s blog has also been nominated in the Best librarian / ...
Lies, Dammed Lies, Blog Statistics and Unexpected Spikes
There was some discussion a while ago on standards for usage statistics for public sector Web sites. I have always been a bit suspicious of initiatives which encourage use of simplistic metrics. There’s a real danger that rather than using such...
Materials For Blogging and Web 2.0 Workshops For Heritage Organisations
Earlier today I ran a half-day workshop entitled “Introduction To Blogs And Social Networks For Heritage Organisations“. This workshop was commissioned by ASVA (Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions, following a seminar I gave on &#...
Let Blog Readers Respond
In my post on Openness in HE but not Elsewhere I suggested that requiring users to agree to complex terms and conditions in order to respond to (and, even worse, view) discussions on government policies was counter-productive. A post entitled It’s ...
Clogging Chris Gets Blogs
Chris Sexton, Director of Corporate Information and Computing Services at the University of Sheffield, recently announced the first anniversary of her From a Distance blog which she uses to “share her work life with you“. As Chris describ...
