links for 2008-10-08
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Informal, hands-on workshop will bring government information experts together with those who are interested in finding and re-using government information
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The impact of the FCO blogs continues to ripple and grow. Interesting that they chose ‘vanilla’ WordPress for this rather than the usual Multi User variety
links for 2008-10-05
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A detailed and technical solution for how to ensure JAWS users can benefit from Ajax, thanks to an undocumented feature of the screen reader than allows an update of JAWS’s ‘virtual buffer” without user action.
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Including a link to the BBC blog expressing accessibility concerns with microformats.
links for 2008-10-04
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TechCrunch respectfully disagrees with the ‘don’t quit your day job’ advice: it’s important to not stop coming up with new and innovative solutions to people’s problems.
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At least not until you’ve got a year’s full funding. Times are going to be hard for the next couple of years as the credit crunch ripples through.
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“Embedded journalist’ Wagner James Au mainains a blog of all things Second Life which is fast becoming my most invaluable RSS feed …
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Wagner James Au was the “embedded journalist” for the first three years of Second Life and this is the fruit of that behind the scenes access.
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Review of last year’s book on Second Life by Tim Guest. Interesting book to a point, but not particularly deep – a review I agree with from an appropriately superficial speedread of the book since I started my own Second Life explorations.
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Article about the extensive restoration of the badly damaged Godfather I & II films and how the end result may be the reason you need to switch to Blu-Ray. Although as the article also says: “the restored DVD is extremely good, too, and if you don’t have a high-def TV with the highest resolution, there’s no point in owning a Blu-ray player at all.” The DVD version has been out in the UK for some time and already available discounted. An offer you can’t refuse, surely? (Sorry – obvious, but necessary cliché.)
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Simon Dickson’s Twitter posts were invaluable on Reshuffle Day. This is his summary of the end of the day, and includes a comment about the new Department of Energy and Climate Change domain being registered that wa the focus of several of my colleagues’ Friday.
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Emma Mulqueeney’s summary of the Cabinet reshuffle. Like me, a lot of it came from picking up clues on Twitter and even Facebook.
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Stephen Fry’s weekend Guardian column and blog post about cloud computing – true online applications with files and the applications that created them stored and accessed from any online computer in the world. There’s no avoiding it: fry is a serious, genuine geek.
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Interview with Russell T Davies about and around the publication of the book, The Writer’s Tale.
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As covered by this blog a couple of weeks ago, here’s the Guardian’s review of Russell T Davies book on the writing of Doctor Who: “Fifteen chapters of that should be far too much even for us fundamentalist Doc-venerators … But it isn’t far too much. It’s the Doctor Who Annual for adults, and it’s not nearly enough, should have been 1001 pages” Hear, hear.
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Ever downloaded Google Gears? Wondered why and what it did? Like me you probably thought that it was for offline reading (back in the days before always-on broadband).) But this article explains exactaly what it’s doing and what its enabling, and it’s quite revealing.
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