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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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  • An Opportunity to Open Up Institutional Data?

    Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 23:53 in openness

    It was while I was waiting for the bus home last night and skimming though the afternoon’s tweets that I noticed here had been a lot of activity around Lord Mandelson’s announcement of a major modernisation of England’s degree syste...

  • Opening Up Institutional Training Resources

    Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 02:32 in openness

    I’m now back from a few day’s at Aberystwyth University, where I had been invited to speak at the launch of the HEFCW-funded Gwella project and to give a seminar on “The ‘Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World’ Report: Imp...

  • Facebook Buys FriendFeed; Identica is Open Source; Does It Matter?

    Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 03:30 in social networking, openness

    As described on TechCrunch a couple of days ago, Facebook Acquires FriendFeed. The Monkey Bites blog advises “Let’s Be Friends in its article on how Facebook acquired FriendFeed. But the reaction in the Twitterverse seems to be negative, with...

  • Respect Copyright (and Subvert It!)

    Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 06:00 in openness

    The Digital Britain Report The Digital Britain report was published a few days ago and as is stretches to over 230 pages we’ve needed that time to digest the report or, perhaps more likely, allow others to read the report and publish their summ...

  • Materials For Blogging and Web 2.0 Workshops For Heritage Organisations

    Posted on Wednesday November 12th, 2008 at 10:00 in blog, openness

    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 &#...

  • Openness In HE, But Not Elsewhere

    Posted on Thursday November 6th, 2008 at 01:25 in openness

    Approaches To Openness in UK Higher Education I commented recently on Andy Powell’s decision to live blog at the conferences he attends, so that his thoughts, opinions and comments can be shared with a wider community and his views discussed op...