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<p>In a classic example of the human tendency to weave everything we see into our own narrative, I recently found myself looking at the 18th century research data of botanist John Sibthorp, embodied in his <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Graeca">Flora Graeca</a></em>.</p>
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<p>It all came about through a visit to Oxford, organised as part of the CPD programme organised by the M25 group of libraries. We first had a tour of the famous <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library</a>’s reading rooms — quite a revelation for a very STEM-focussed non-librarian like me!</p>
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<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban">Kanban</a> (看板 — literally “billboard”) is a scheduling system developed by Taiichi Ohno at Toyota to direct the manufacture of vehicles to minimise work-in-progress. <a href="http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/">Personal Kanban (PK)</a> is an adaptation of the ideas behind the original kanban system for the type of knowledge work done by the majority of typical office workers.</p>
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<p>PK has two key principles:</p>
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<p>As I’ve <a href="../../blog/gtd-things-vs-omnifocus">mentioned previously</a>, I periodically try out new task management software. The latest in that story is Emacs and Org-mode.</p>
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<span style="font-size:.8em;margin-top:0"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jezcope/2845538425/">Social networking poll</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/jezcope/">Jez Cope</a>.</span>
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<p>My own presentation discussed some of the work I’ve done providing social media and data management training for PGRs, and the slides can be viewed here:</p>
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14237401" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen=""> </iframe>
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<iframe src="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14237401" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen=""> </iframe>
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<div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope/technology-training-for-pg-students" title="Technology training for PG students" target="_blank">Technology training for PG students</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope" target="_blank">Jez Cope</a></strong> </div>
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<p>As an experiment, the <a href="http://github.com/jezcope/oxford-open-science-2012">LaTeX source of the slides</a> is also available on github. Let me know if they’re any use.</p>
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<em>This blog post is part of my contribution to the open online course<br>
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I’ve now had my <a href="http://amazon.com/kindle">Kindle</a> for just over 12 months — it<br>
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<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_9421872"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope/isuslab-a-sakaibased-virtual-research-environment-for-scientists" title="iSusLab: a Sakai-based Virtual Research Environment for scientists" target="_blank">iSusLab: a Sakai-based Virtual Research Environment for scientists</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/9421872" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope" target="_blank">Jez Cope</a> </div> </div>
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<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_9421872"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope/isuslab-a-sakaibased-virtual-research-environment-for-scientists" title="iSusLab: a Sakai-based Virtual Research Environment for scientists" target="_blank">iSusLab: a Sakai-based Virtual Research Environment for scientists</a></strong> <iframe src="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/9421872" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope" target="_blank">Jez Cope</a> </div> </div>
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Continuing with the task I began yesterday, here are my initial thoughts on<br>
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After a short introduction from the Lord Mayor of Leeds, conference chair John Cook handed over to Miguel Brechner from Uruguay to talk about the inspiring Plan Ceibal.</p>
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<p>This project started in 2006 and tapped into the One Laptop Per Child programme to provide every schoolchild in Uruguay with a laptop and Internet access. I can’t really do it justice here, but I encourage you to watch the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ClipsFromALT">recording of his talk and the questions afterwards</a>.</p>
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<p><img alt="Shoots by Gemma Garner" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/5414162854_2eba8151a7_m.jpg" title="Shoots" width="240" height="175" class="alignright"> How often do you try something new? Not sure? Well today a whole bunch of research students at the University of Bath gamely had a go at signing up for Twitter and investigating the power of RSS feeds.</p>
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<p>This was the first of a series of events under the banner of “The Connected Researcher @ Bath” (a title shamelessly stolen from Cardiff University’s <a href="http://cardiff.academia.edu/SusanSmith">Susan Smith</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/SarahNicholas">Sarah Nicholas</a>; I hope they don’t mind!). The whole thing came about when <a href="http://twitter.com/edsgmj">Geraldine Jones</a> (E-learning Officer for Humanities & Social Sciences) and I got our heads together. We’d both been wondering how to get more research students to try out social media and found that together we were in a position to make it happen.</p>
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<p>Although bibliographic collections can be copyrighted, individual record cannot. Projects like Mendeley are giving us the tools to build up high-quality open bibliographies, rather that having to buy them from large companies who don’t get what we need and tend to munge the data in unhelpful ways.</p>
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<p><img alt="OPEN by Tom Magliery" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/1914076277_059bddaa68_m_d.jpg" title="OPEN by Tom Magliery" class="alignleft" width="240" height="240">David Shotton followed on, adding that “citation is the glue which holds scholarly endeavour together.” The majority of citation data is currently locked up in the references sections of papers, but by making it open and accessible to data mining lots of interesting possibilities open up.</p>
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<p>Key among these in my opinion is the ability to trace the evolution of ideas through series of articles and make visible the conversations which researchers are having through their published outputs. This turns the citation record into a valuable companion to peer review in assessing the quality of ideas.</p>
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<p>Last week, in conversation over a cup of tea with a handful of PhD students and the <abbr title="Doctoral Training Centre">DTC</abbr> Co-ordinator, someone remarked on the large quantity of printing that PhD students (and researchers in general) do. It’s common to end up with piles and piles of printed articles which have been read only a few times before being “archived”.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/4114167117/"><img class="alignright" title="Future Tense by Kevin Dooley" src="https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2569/4114167117_461065fe2a_m_d.jpg" alt="Future Tense by Kevin Dooley"></a> Well, what a busy few months it’s been. As I’ve <a href="http://erambler.co.uk/2010/06/17/briefly-brushing-away-the-cobwebs/">already alluded to</a>, my wife and I got married in June. In addition, I took the difficult decision a few months ago to leave my PhD, and now I have a new job!</p>
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<p>No jobs being forthcoming after withdrawing from my course, I set up as a freelance web developer. It’s been an incredible learning experience, and great fun. I’ve learned a lot about business, from marketing through to finance and everything in between, and I’ve met lots of new people into the bargain.</p>
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Recently, my dad contacted me to ask some advice about Facebook: a friend of his (who shall remain nameless, for obvious reasons) had been a victim of Facebook identity theft. The friend is a school teacher, and unbeknownst to him, someone or other had set up a Facebook profile in his name with his photo and begun befriending his school pupils.</p>
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<p>One of my favourite posts so far has been my <a href="http://erambler.co.uk/2009/05/30/ask-the-readers-why-use-technology-in-teaching/">first Ask the Readers post</a>, so I’ve decided it’s time to continue the series with another request for ideas. I’ve written before about how I kept a <a href="http://erambler.co.uk/2009/07/22/portfolio-assessment-age-computer/">digital portfolio</a> as part of my Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education qualification. It’s something that I learned a lot from, particularly in conjunction with learning about learning, and I’ve continued the reflective ethos of that portfolio here on the blog.</p>
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<p>Today’s blog post was inspired by a trip to <a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.14922">Down House</a> in Kent, where Charles Darwin spent the latter years of his life with his wife and family, and where he wrote, amongst many other works, <em>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection</em>.</p>
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<p>Although the guide is set up to take you round in a specified order by default, you can also bring up a map, labelled with all the locations that have audio content so that you can skip bits out or make up your own tour of the grounds. After the main narration for each location, given by Andrew Marr in the garden and Sir David Attenborough in the house, there is a menu of other short bits of relevant information, taken from interviews with various experts. We were each able to customise our tour and include only the information we were interested in: very useful when we moved onto the house and time was starting to run a bit short. There is also a small interactive game for each section, which should help to keep the kids entertained.</p>
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<p>It’s very freeing having a well-written audio guide to an English Heritage property. The best part is that you can look around at whatever is being described without having to constantly shift attention between it and an information plaque. Also having the full-colour screen on the device meant that photos and videos could be shown, which added an extra dimension to the tour.</p>
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<p>Followers of my <a id="aptureLink_SHsCcXosIT" href="http://twitter.com/jezcope">twitter stream</a> will have noticed that over the last few days I’ve been posting to my <a id="aptureLink_jmqLVqzSiT" href="http://jezcope.posterous.com/">Posterous account</a> from <a id="aptureLink_0eDRxEDYCY" href="http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/">Shrewsbury Folk Festival</a>.<br>
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<p><a href="http://twitter.com/beckacurrant">Becka Currant</a> kicked off the discussion by pointing out that “too many assumptions are made about digital fluency.” This is something that I’ve since come to agree with: it’s all too easy to assume that because young people appear comfortable with technology, they are completely turned on to the consequences of its use. Becka also pointed me in the direction of <a href="http://www.elp.ac.uk/downloads/Defining%20Generation%20Y%20Bradford.pdf">this typology</a> from <a href="http://www.elp.ac.uk/">JISC’s Enhancing Learner Progression project</a> which does a great job of explaining the separation between students’ level of technological experience and its contribution to education.</p>
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<p>If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I think this is going.<!--more-->I was quite excited to discover, in the middle of last year, that the University was investigating social networking platforms with a view to setting up their own. A whole raft of options were considered, including open-source and proprietary solutions, but CICS eventually decided to go ahead and buy <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/">Jive Software</a>’s Clearspace (now known as Jive SBS).</p>
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<p>I keep my portfolio in digital form, using <a href="http://www.circusponies.com/">Circus Ponies Notebook</a> on my laptop. This works very well for me, as I can type prose considerably quicker than I can write with pen and paper, so I’m able to keep up with my thoughts better. It also means that I can include movies and audio clips: for example, I have done a couple of supervision sessions with other people on the course and recorded the debrief session rather than taking notes. There are still a few physical bits of paper that I have too, primarily handouts from course workshops, but almost all of it is digital.</p>
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<p>Now, I fully understand the reasoning behind having everyone submit their portfolio on the same day, even if only 3 or 4 will actually be checked by the examiner. If only those requested by the examiner were submitted, how could the examiner know that the rest had even produced a portfolio?</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/" class="image-link"><img src="http://allacademic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/atebits-tweetie-for-mac-thumb.png" height="229" align="right" width="214" style="float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px"></a>I've been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I've graduated from interacting with it purely through <a href="http://twitter.com/">the Twitter site</a>, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/" class="image-link"><img src="https://allacademic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/atebits-tweetie-for-mac-thumb.png" height="229" align="right" width="214" style="float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px"></a>I've been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I've graduated from interacting with it purely through <a href="http://twitter.com/">the Twitter site</a>, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.</p>
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<p style="clear:both">On my iPod touch, I've been using a client by the name of <a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/">Tweetie</a> from an indie developer by the name of <a href="http://www.atebits.com/">atebits</a>, which has loads of great features that I won't bore you with here. Today it was announced (<a href="http://twitter.com/atebits/status/1564541335">via Twitter, of course</a>) that the <a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/">Mac version is ready for human consumption</a>.</p>
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<p style="clear:both">I've switched over to it as my primary Twitter client already and I have to say I really like it. It's still got some rough edges and it's missing some useful functionality that I liked in <a href="http://www.nambu.com/">Nambu</a>, but it's already showing the great attention to detail and some of the range of features that have made the iPhone/iPod touch version so good. There are already some detailed reviews up, from <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/17/tweetie-twitter-client-with-oomph/">The Unofficial Apple Weblog</a> and <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/tweetie-for-mac-a-powerful-native-twitter-client-for-the-masses/">TechCrunch</a>, so I'll leave it at that, but if you're a Mac twitterer and you haven't already, I strongly recommend you give it a try.</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><em>I'm also testing out another bit of software right now: a Mac blogging client by the name of <a href="http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo">Blogo</a>. This is my first post using it, and I'll let you know how I get on with it.<br></em></p>
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<p>Do you like having an audience? I know I do: that’s at least part of the reason I’m writing this blog post.</p>
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<p>If you’ve been using Twitter for any length of time, you’ve probably used it to pass on the URL (web address) of a web page to your network. In that case, you might have noticed that since URLs can be pretty long, you don’t get much space left to describe what it is you’re actually passing on. This is where URL shrinkers come in.</p>
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<p>Quite simply, a URL shrinker takes your long, unwieldy URL and spits out a nice, short URL which points to the same web page. You can copy-and-paste a URL from your browser’s location bar into the URL shrinker, but most of these services will give you a bookmarklet; a link which you can drag to your browser’s bookmarks/favourites bar which becomes a button to automatically grab the URL, shrink it and copy it to the clipboard ready for use. Look this up in the online help for your URL shrinker, or look for links with titles like “Trim this”.</p>
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<p>I’ve recently signed up to <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>. It’s not a new thing; it’s been around for a few years and it’s probably safe to say that I’m way behind the curve on this one. For those who haven’t come across it yet, it’s a very, <em>very</em> simple social networking site which allows you to broadcast 140-character messages. However, in spite of this simplicity, it’s a very powerful tool, and can be quite off-putting for new users.</p>
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<p>This hands control over what you read back to you: you don’t have to follow anyone you don’t want to. I can’t emphasise enough how important this is: <em>don’t follow anyone whose tweets aren’t worth reading</em>. By all means follow someone for a while before you make this decision, and change your mind all you want. Just remember that if you’re not interested in updates on userxyz’s cat at 90-second intervals, no-one says you have to follow them.</p>
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<p>You can follow someone by visiting their profile page, which will have the form “http://twitter.com/<em>username</em>”. This page lists their most recent tweets, newest first. Right at the top, underneath their picture, there’s a button marked “Follow”: click this and it’ll change to a message telling you that you’re now following them. To stop following someone, click this message and it’ll reveal a “Remove” button for you to press. Twitter will send them an email when you start following them, but not when you stop.</p>
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<p>On the left of your home page, there are links entitled “Following” and “Followers” which take you to a list of people you follow and people who follow you, respectively. On your followers list, you’ll see a tick next to anyone you’re also following, and a follow button next to anyone you’re not. Following people who follow you is good for at least three reasons:</p>
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<p>For a long time, I’ve been the sort of person who tends to read and absorb information, without really wanting or needing to scribble notes down. This is probably because my background has been maths and computing, and the elegance of mathematics as a language is in its ability to express big ideas and small in a concise way: no annotation needed if everything you need is there.</p>
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<p>One of my favourite posts so far has been my <a href="http://erambler.co.uk/2009/05/30/ask-the-readers-why-use-technology-in-teaching/">first Ask the Readers post</a>, so I’ve decided it’s time to continue the series with another request for ideas. I’ve written before about how I kept a <a href="http://erambler.co.uk/2009/07/22/portfolio-assessment-age-computer/">digital portfolio</a> as part of my Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education qualification. It’s something that I learned a lot from, particularly in conjunction with learning about learning, and I’ve continued the reflective ethos of that portfolio here on the blog.</p>
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<p>I’ve recently signed up to <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>. It’s not a new thing; it’s been around for a few years and it’s probably safe to say that I’m way behind the curve on this one. For those who haven’t come across it yet, it’s a very, <em>very</em> simple social networking site which allows you to broadcast 140-character messages. However, in spite of this simplicity, it’s a very powerful tool, and can be quite off-putting for new users.</p>
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<p>On the left of your home page, there are links entitled “Following” and “Followers” which take you to a list of people you follow and people who follow you, respectively. On your followers list, you’ll see a tick next to anyone you’re also following, and a follow button next to anyone you’re not. Following people who follow you is good for at least three reasons:</p>
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<p>Quite simply, a URL shrinker takes your long, unwieldy URL and spits out a nice, short URL which points to the same web page. You can copy-and-paste a URL from your browser’s location bar into the URL shrinker, but most of these services will give you a bookmarklet; a link which you can drag to your browser’s bookmarks/favourites bar which becomes a button to automatically grab the URL, shrink it and copy it to the clipboard ready for use. Look this up in the online help for your URL shrinker, or look for links with titles like “Trim this”.</p>
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<p>In a classic example of the human tendency to weave everything we see into our own narrative, I recently found myself looking at the 18th century research data of botanist John Sibthorp, embodied in his <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Graeca">Flora Graeca</a></em>.</p>
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<p>It all came about through a visit to Oxford, organised as part of the CPD programme organised by the M25 group of libraries. We first had a tour of the famous <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library</a>’s reading rooms — quite a revelation for a very STEM-focussed non-librarian like me!</p>
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<p>Today’s blog post was inspired by a trip to <a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.14922">Down House</a> in Kent, where Charles Darwin spent the latter years of his life with his wife and family, and where he wrote, amongst many other works, <em>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection</em>.</p>
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<p>Although the guide is set up to take you round in a specified order by default, you can also bring up a map, labelled with all the locations that have audio content so that you can skip bits out or make up your own tour of the grounds. After the main narration for each location, given by Andrew Marr in the garden and Sir David Attenborough in the house, there is a menu of other short bits of relevant information, taken from interviews with various experts. We were each able to customise our tour and include only the information we were interested in: very useful when we moved onto the house and time was starting to run a bit short. There is also a small interactive game for each section, which should help to keep the kids entertained.</p>
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<p>It’s very freeing having a well-written audio guide to an English Heritage property. The best part is that you can look around at whatever is being described without having to constantly shift attention between it and an information plaque. Also having the full-colour screen on the device meant that photos and videos could be shown, which added an extra dimension to the tour.</p>
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<p>This was the first of a series of events under the banner of “The Connected Researcher @ Bath” (a title shamelessly stolen from Cardiff University’s <a href="http://cardiff.academia.edu/SusanSmith">Susan Smith</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/SarahNicholas">Sarah Nicholas</a>; I hope they don’t mind!). The whole thing came about when <a href="http://twitter.com/edsgmj">Geraldine Jones</a> (E-learning Officer for Humanities & Social Sciences) and I got our heads together. We’d both been wondering how to get more research students to try out social media and found that together we were in a position to make it happen.</p>
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<p><a href="http://twitter.com/beckacurrant">Becka Currant</a> kicked off the discussion by pointing out that “too many assumptions are made about digital fluency.” This is something that I’ve since come to agree with: it’s all too easy to assume that because young people appear comfortable with technology, they are completely turned on to the consequences of its use. Becka also pointed me in the direction of <a href="http://www.elp.ac.uk/downloads/Defining%20Generation%20Y%20Bradford.pdf">this typology</a> from <a href="http://www.elp.ac.uk/">JISC’s Enhancing Learner Progression project</a> which does a great job of explaining the separation between students’ level of technological experience and its contribution to education.</p>
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<p>Last week, in conversation over a cup of tea with a handful of PhD students and the <abbr title="Doctoral Training Centre">DTC</abbr> Co-ordinator, someone remarked on the large quantity of printing that PhD students (and researchers in general) do. It’s common to end up with piles and piles of printed articles which have been read only a few times before being “archived”.</p>
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<p>Followers of my <a id="aptureLink_SHsCcXosIT" href="http://twitter.com/jezcope">twitter stream</a> will have noticed that over the last few days I’ve been posting to my <a id="aptureLink_jmqLVqzSiT" href="http://jezcope.posterous.com/">Posterous account</a> from <a id="aptureLink_0eDRxEDYCY" href="http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/">Shrewsbury Folk Festival</a>.<br>
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<p>No jobs being forthcoming after withdrawing from my course, I set up as a freelance web developer. It’s been an incredible learning experience, and great fun. I’ve learned a lot about business, from marketing through to finance and everything in between, and I’ve met lots of new people into the bargain.</p>
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<div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope/technology-training-for-pg-students" title="Technology training for PG students" target="_blank">Technology training for PG students</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope" target="_blank">Jez Cope</a></strong> </div>
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<p>I keep my portfolio in digital form, using <a href="http://www.circusponies.com/">Circus Ponies Notebook</a> on my laptop. This works very well for me, as I can type prose considerably quicker than I can write with pen and paper, so I’m able to keep up with my thoughts better. It also means that I can include movies and audio clips: for example, I have done a couple of supervision sessions with other people on the course and recorded the debrief session rather than taking notes. There are still a few physical bits of paper that I have too, primarily handouts from course workshops, but almost all of it is digital.</p>
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<p>Now, I fully understand the reasoning behind having everyone submit their portfolio on the same day, even if only 3 or 4 will actually be checked by the examiner. If only those requested by the examiner were submitted, how could the examiner know that the rest had even produced a portfolio?</p>
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Recently, my dad contacted me to ask some advice about Facebook: a friend of his (who shall remain nameless, for obvious reasons) had been a victim of Facebook identity theft. The friend is a school teacher, and unbeknownst to him, someone or other had set up a Facebook profile in his name with his photo and begun befriending his school pupils.</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/" class="image-link"><img src="http://allacademic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/atebits-tweetie-for-mac-thumb.png" height="229" align="right" width="214" style="float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px"></a>I've been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I've graduated from interacting with it purely through <a href="http://twitter.com/">the Twitter site</a>, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/" class="image-link"><img src="https://allacademic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/atebits-tweetie-for-mac-thumb.png" height="229" align="right" width="214" style="float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px"></a>I've been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I've graduated from interacting with it purely through <a href="http://twitter.com/">the Twitter site</a>, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.</p>
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<p style="clear:both">On my iPod touch, I've been using a client by the name of <a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/">Tweetie</a> from an indie developer by the name of <a href="http://www.atebits.com/">atebits</a>, which has loads of great features that I won't bore you with here. Today it was announced (<a href="http://twitter.com/atebits/status/1564541335">via Twitter, of course</a>) that the <a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/">Mac version is ready for human consumption</a>.</p>
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<p style="clear:both">I've switched over to it as my primary Twitter client already and I have to say I really like it. It's still got some rough edges and it's missing some useful functionality that I liked in <a href="http://www.nambu.com/">Nambu</a>, but it's already showing the great attention to detail and some of the range of features that have made the iPhone/iPod touch version so good. There are already some detailed reviews up, from <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/17/tweetie-twitter-client-with-oomph/">The Unofficial Apple Weblog</a> and <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/tweetie-for-mac-a-powerful-native-twitter-client-for-the-masses/">TechCrunch</a>, so I'll leave it at that, but if you're a Mac twitterer and you haven't already, I strongly recommend you give it a try.</p>
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<p>If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I think this is going.<!--more-->I was quite excited to discover, in the middle of last year, that the University was investigating social networking platforms with a view to setting up their own. A whole raft of options were considered, including open-source and proprietary solutions, but CICS eventually decided to go ahead and buy <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/">Jive Software</a>’s Clearspace (now known as Jive SBS).</p>
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<p>Although bibliographic collections can be copyrighted, individual record cannot. Projects like Mendeley are giving us the tools to build up high-quality open bibliographies, rather that having to buy them from large companies who don’t get what we need and tend to munge the data in unhelpful ways.</p>
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<p><img alt="OPEN by Tom Magliery" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/1914076277_059bddaa68_m_d.jpg" title="OPEN by Tom Magliery" class="alignleft" width="240" height="240">David Shotton followed on, adding that “citation is the glue which holds scholarly endeavour together.” The majority of citation data is currently locked up in the references sections of papers, but by making it open and accessible to data mining lots of interesting possibilities open up.</p>
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<p><img alt="OPEN by Tom Magliery" src="https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/1914076277_059bddaa68_m_d.jpg" title="OPEN by Tom Magliery" class="alignleft" width="240" height="240">David Shotton followed on, adding that “citation is the glue which holds scholarly endeavour together.” The majority of citation data is currently locked up in the references sections of papers, but by making it open and accessible to data mining lots of interesting possibilities open up.</p>
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<p>In a classic example of the human tendency to weave everything we see into our own narrative, I recently found myself looking at the 18th century research data of botanist John Sibthorp, embodied in his <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Graeca">Flora Graeca</a></em>.</p>
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<p>It all came about through a visit to Oxford, organised as part of the CPD programme organised by the M25 group of libraries. We first had a tour of the famous <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library</a>’s reading rooms — quite a revelation for a very STEM-focussed non-librarian like me!</p>
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<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban">Kanban</a> (看板 — literally “billboard”) is a scheduling system developed by Taiichi Ohno at Toyota to direct the manufacture of vehicles to minimise work-in-progress. <a href="http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/">Personal Kanban (PK)</a> is an adaptation of the ideas behind the original kanban system for the type of knowledge work done by the majority of typical office workers.</p>
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<div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope/technology-training-for-pg-students" title="Technology training for PG students" target="_blank">Technology training for PG students</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope" target="_blank">Jez Cope</a></strong> </div>
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<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_9421872"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope/isuslab-a-sakaibased-virtual-research-environment-for-scientists" title="iSusLab: a Sakai-based Virtual Research Environment for scientists" target="_blank">iSusLab: a Sakai-based Virtual Research Environment for scientists</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/9421872" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope" target="_blank">Jez Cope</a> </div> </div>
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<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_9061070">Presentation: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jezcope/virtual-research-environments-supporting-research-and-researcher-development" title="Virtual Research Environments: Supporting research and researcher development">Virtual Research Environments: Supporting research and researcher development</a><object id="__sse9061070" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=eposter0210slides-110829161623-phpapp02&stripped_title=virtual-research-environments-supporting-research-and-researcher-development&userName=jezcope">
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<p><img alt="Shoots by Gemma Garner" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/5414162854_2eba8151a7_m.jpg" title="Shoots" width="240" height="175" class="alignright"> How often do you try something new? Not sure? Well today a whole bunch of research students at the University of Bath gamely had a go at signing up for Twitter and investigating the power of RSS feeds.</p>
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<p><img alt="Shoots by Gemma Garner" src="https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/5414162854_2eba8151a7_m.jpg" title="Shoots" width="240" height="175" class="alignright"> How often do you try something new? Not sure? Well today a whole bunch of research students at the University of Bath gamely had a go at signing up for Twitter and investigating the power of RSS feeds.</p>
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<p>This was the first of a series of events under the banner of “The Connected Researcher @ Bath” (a title shamelessly stolen from Cardiff University’s <a href="http://cardiff.academia.edu/SusanSmith">Susan Smith</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/SarahNicholas">Sarah Nicholas</a>; I hope they don’t mind!). The whole thing came about when <a href="http://twitter.com/edsgmj">Geraldine Jones</a> (E-learning Officer for Humanities & Social Sciences) and I got our heads together. We’d both been wondering how to get more research students to try out social media and found that together we were in a position to make it happen.</p>
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<p>Although bibliographic collections can be copyrighted, individual record cannot. Projects like Mendeley are giving us the tools to build up high-quality open bibliographies, rather that having to buy them from large companies who don’t get what we need and tend to munge the data in unhelpful ways.</p>
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<p><img alt="OPEN by Tom Magliery" src="https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/1914076277_059bddaa68_m_d.jpg" title="OPEN by Tom Magliery" class="alignleft" width="240" height="240">David Shotton followed on, adding that “citation is the glue which holds scholarly endeavour together.” The majority of citation data is currently locked up in the references sections of papers, but by making it open and accessible to data mining lots of interesting possibilities open up.</p>
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<p>Last week, in conversation over a cup of tea with a handful of PhD students and the <abbr title="Doctoral Training Centre">DTC</abbr> Co-ordinator, someone remarked on the large quantity of printing that PhD students (and researchers in general) do. It’s common to end up with piles and piles of printed articles which have been read only a few times before being “archived”.</p>
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<p>No jobs being forthcoming after withdrawing from my course, I set up as a freelance web developer. It’s been an incredible learning experience, and great fun. I’ve learned a lot about business, from marketing through to finance and everything in between, and I’ve met lots of new people into the bargain.</p>
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Recently, my dad contacted me to ask some advice about Facebook: a friend of his (who shall remain nameless, for obvious reasons) had been a victim of Facebook identity theft. The friend is a school teacher, and unbeknownst to him, someone or other had set up a Facebook profile in his name with his photo and begun befriending his school pupils.</p>
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<p>For a long time, I’ve been the sort of person who tends to read and absorb information, without really wanting or needing to scribble notes down. This is probably because my background has been maths and computing, and the elegance of mathematics as a language is in its ability to express big ideas and small in a concise way: no annotation needed if everything you need is there.</p>
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<p>One of my favourite posts so far has been my <a href="http://erambler.co.uk/2009/05/30/ask-the-readers-why-use-technology-in-teaching/">first Ask the Readers post</a>, so I’ve decided it’s time to continue the series with another request for ideas. I’ve written before about how I kept a <a href="http://erambler.co.uk/2009/07/22/portfolio-assessment-age-computer/">digital portfolio</a> as part of my Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education qualification. It’s something that I learned a lot from, particularly in conjunction with learning about learning, and I’ve continued the reflective ethos of that portfolio here on the blog.</p>
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<p>Today’s blog post was inspired by a trip to <a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.14922">Down House</a> in Kent, where Charles Darwin spent the latter years of his life with his wife and family, and where he wrote, amongst many other works, <em>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection</em>.</p>
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<p>Although the guide is set up to take you round in a specified order by default, you can also bring up a map, labelled with all the locations that have audio content so that you can skip bits out or make up your own tour of the grounds. After the main narration for each location, given by Andrew Marr in the garden and Sir David Attenborough in the house, there is a menu of other short bits of relevant information, taken from interviews with various experts. We were each able to customise our tour and include only the information we were interested in: very useful when we moved onto the house and time was starting to run a bit short. There is also a small interactive game for each section, which should help to keep the kids entertained.</p>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/550975041/"><img alt="Laudioguidage de lexposition Anselm Kiefer au Grand Palais by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/248/550975041_0b97c86d01_m.jpg" title="Laudioguidage de lexposition Anselm Kiefer au Grand Palais" width="240" height="180"></a><p>L'audioguidage de l'exposition Anselm Kiefer au Grand Palais by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra</p>
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<p>It’s very freeing having a well-written audio guide to an English Heritage property. The best part is that you can look around at whatever is being described without having to constantly shift attention between it and an information plaque. Also having the full-colour screen on the device meant that photos and videos could be shown, which added an extra dimension to the tour.</p>
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<p>Followers of my <a id="aptureLink_SHsCcXosIT" href="http://twitter.com/jezcope">twitter stream</a> will have noticed that over the last few days I’ve been posting to my <a id="aptureLink_jmqLVqzSiT" href="http://jezcope.posterous.com/">Posterous account</a> from <a id="aptureLink_0eDRxEDYCY" href="http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/">Shrewsbury Folk Festival</a>.<br>
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<p><a href="http://twitter.com/beckacurrant">Becka Currant</a> kicked off the discussion by pointing out that “too many assumptions are made about digital fluency.” This is something that I’ve since come to agree with: it’s all too easy to assume that because young people appear comfortable with technology, they are completely turned on to the consequences of its use. Becka also pointed me in the direction of <a href="http://www.elp.ac.uk/downloads/Defining%20Generation%20Y%20Bradford.pdf">this typology</a> from <a href="http://www.elp.ac.uk/">JISC’s Enhancing Learner Progression project</a> which does a great job of explaining the separation between students’ level of technological experience and its contribution to education.</p>
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<p>If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I think this is going.<!--more-->I was quite excited to discover, in the middle of last year, that the University was investigating social networking platforms with a view to setting up their own. A whole raft of options were considered, including open-source and proprietary solutions, but CICS eventually decided to go ahead and buy <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/">Jive Software</a>’s Clearspace (now known as Jive SBS).</p>
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<p>I keep my portfolio in digital form, using <a href="http://www.circusponies.com/">Circus Ponies Notebook</a> on my laptop. This works very well for me, as I can type prose considerably quicker than I can write with pen and paper, so I’m able to keep up with my thoughts better. It also means that I can include movies and audio clips: for example, I have done a couple of supervision sessions with other people on the course and recorded the debrief session rather than taking notes. There are still a few physical bits of paper that I have too, primarily handouts from course workshops, but almost all of it is digital.</p>
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<p>Now, I fully understand the reasoning behind having everyone submit their portfolio on the same day, even if only 3 or 4 will actually be checked by the examiner. If only those requested by the examiner were submitted, how could the examiner know that the rest had even produced a portfolio?</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/" class="image-link"><img src="http://allacademic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/atebits-tweetie-for-mac-thumb.png" height="229" align="right" width="214" style="float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px"></a>I've been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I've graduated from interacting with it purely through <a href="http://twitter.com/">the Twitter site</a>, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/" class="image-link"><img src="https://allacademic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/atebits-tweetie-for-mac-thumb.png" height="229" align="right" width="214" style="float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px"></a>I've been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I've graduated from interacting with it purely through <a href="http://twitter.com/">the Twitter site</a>, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting.</p>
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<p style="clear:both">On my iPod touch, I've been using a client by the name of <a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/">Tweetie</a> from an indie developer by the name of <a href="http://www.atebits.com/">atebits</a>, which has loads of great features that I won't bore you with here. Today it was announced (<a href="http://twitter.com/atebits/status/1564541335">via Twitter, of course</a>) that the <a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/">Mac version is ready for human consumption</a>.</p>
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<p style="clear:both">I've switched over to it as my primary Twitter client already and I have to say I really like it. It's still got some rough edges and it's missing some useful functionality that I liked in <a href="http://www.nambu.com/">Nambu</a>, but it's already showing the great attention to detail and some of the range of features that have made the iPhone/iPod touch version so good. There are already some detailed reviews up, from <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/17/tweetie-twitter-client-with-oomph/">The Unofficial Apple Weblog</a> and <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/tweetie-for-mac-a-powerful-native-twitter-client-for-the-masses/">TechCrunch</a>, so I'll leave it at that, but if you're a Mac twitterer and you haven't already, I strongly recommend you give it a try.</p>
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<p style="clear:both"><em>I'm also testing out another bit of software right now: a Mac blogging client by the name of <a href="http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo">Blogo</a>. This is my first post using it, and I'll let you know how I get on with it.<br></em></p>
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<p>Do you like having an audience? I know I do: that’s at least part of the reason I’m writing this blog post.</p>
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<p>If you’ve been using Twitter for any length of time, you’ve probably used it to pass on the URL (web address) of a web page to your network. In that case, you might have noticed that since URLs can be pretty long, you don’t get much space left to describe what it is you’re actually passing on. This is where URL shrinkers come in.</p>
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<p>Quite simply, a URL shrinker takes your long, unwieldy URL and spits out a nice, short URL which points to the same web page. You can copy-and-paste a URL from your browser’s location bar into the URL shrinker, but most of these services will give you a bookmarklet; a link which you can drag to your browser’s bookmarks/favourites bar which becomes a button to automatically grab the URL, shrink it and copy it to the clipboard ready for use. Look this up in the online help for your URL shrinker, or look for links with titles like “Trim this”.</p>
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<p>I’ve recently signed up to <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>. It’s not a new thing; it’s been around for a few years and it’s probably safe to say that I’m way behind the curve on this one. For those who haven’t come across it yet, it’s a very, <em>very</em> simple social networking site which allows you to broadcast 140-character messages. However, in spite of this simplicity, it’s a very powerful tool, and can be quite off-putting for new users.</p>
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<p>This hands control over what you read back to you: you don’t have to follow anyone you don’t want to. I can’t emphasise enough how important this is: <em>don’t follow anyone whose tweets aren’t worth reading</em>. By all means follow someone for a while before you make this decision, and change your mind all you want. Just remember that if you’re not interested in updates on userxyz’s cat at 90-second intervals, no-one says you have to follow them.</p>
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<p>You can follow someone by visiting their profile page, which will have the form “http://twitter.com/<em>username</em>”. This page lists their most recent tweets, newest first. Right at the top, underneath their picture, there’s a button marked “Follow”: click this and it’ll change to a message telling you that you’re now following them. To stop following someone, click this message and it’ll reveal a “Remove” button for you to press. Twitter will send them an email when you start following them, but not when you stop.</p>
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<p>On the left of your home page, there are links entitled “Following” and “Followers” which take you to a list of people you follow and people who follow you, respectively. On your followers list, you’ll see a tick next to anyone you’re also following, and a follow button next to anyone you’re not. Following people who follow you is good for at least three reasons:</p>
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I'm a nut for automating repetitive tasks, so I was dead pleased a few years ago when I discovered that [IFTTT](https://ifttt.com) let me plug different bits of the web together. I now use it for tasks such as:
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