Mike Malloch's SuprGlu : recent blogging, bookmarking and images

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I don't know what happened to that website. I don't think it ever actually launched. Which is a shame.

I have see screen shots for an alternative online coaching site www.MoveMountains.com. It helps you set goals, monitor progress and keep on track with your goals. I think it's due to go live before summer '07

• Web Applications 1.0 - Working Draft — 16 Feb 2007 [Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group] introduces features to HTML/DOM to ease authoring of Web applications, eg context menus, graphics canvas, inline popup windows, server-sent events [document changing rapidly] WHATWG is a growing community of browser vendors (Apple, Mozilla, Opera), web developers.. interested in dev of next generation of HTML - specifically to allow authors to write and deploy applications over the Web

• Bruce Lawson’s personal site : DTI complaint - blog posts tracking his complaint about an expensively inaccessible DTI website (see also his petition at petitions.pm.gov.uk/govaccessibility) .. DTI blames CMS & contractor sad tale beginning '..brand-new oh-so-1997 website of the Department of Trade and Industry, built by Fresh 01 and Fujitsu for a cost of £200,000, yet fails to meet a reasonable level of accessibility, even though it is clearly required in the specificati

• OSI e-Infrastructure Working Group: Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation: sets out the requirements for a national e-infrastructure to help ensure the UK maintains/enhances its global standing in science and innovation links to 2.7MB PDF doc + 6 sept docs for sections: Data and information creation| Preservation and curation| Search and navigation| Virtual research communities| Networks, compute and data storage| AAA (authent'n/authoris'n/account'g), middleware & DRM

• 50° 0'38.20"N 110° 6'48.32"W - Google Maps - funny/amazing landscape feature east of Medicine Hat really has to be seen to be believed

• The extraordinary life of Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother | Guardian Unlimited Books: Red Princess - A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff is published on March 15 by Granta Books at £16.99 ahh... our mate Fiona's grandmother Sofka in a new book by cousin Sofka.. Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother, a Russian princess turned card-carrying communist, led an extraordinary life - the consequences of which are still being felt down the generations
• Embedded Media HTML Generator: UCSF developed to ease the burden of inserting video and animations into web pages. Asks a series of clear & sensible questions, then displays required html to embed Flash, QuickTime, Real Media or Windows Media nice resource for brave non-techie web authors.. 'The Embedded HTML Media Generator is provided AS-IS. No warranty is implied or extended with respect to its accuracy or utility. Feedback is welcome, but we will only be able to respond to questions from U
• Talking with Microsoft about IE.next - The Web Standards Project: WSP took a carefully prep'd list of requests for JavaScript improvements to the MSIE dev team.. 'keenly aware of the issues we brought up and are eager to address them' THE LIST: fast, arbitrary node-matching API | better error reporting | mutable DOM prototypes | bring IE event system in line with the W3C event model | CSS: implement generated content | fixing CSS bugs | various form control fixes | ...

• Microsoft to release ODF document converter | CNET News.com: A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Feb 2 to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. 'Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word processor documents in two different formats.
• John Seely Brown MIT World Video: Relearning Learning-Applying the Long Tail to Learning | 1:42:04 real video of much-quoted talk given Dec 1, 2006.. we must transcend models of learning that prescribe "pouring knowledge into somebody’s head" 'We learn through our interactions with others and the world, he says, and there’s no more perfect medium for enabling this than an increasingly open and organized World Wide Web.

• Modelling Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice | Virtual Canuck: The key to supporting, instigating and maintaining a critical mass of participation in online communities has been illusive [so] pleased to run onto Michael Zarbs Masters thesis 'This 99 page document overviews a Delphi study in which Zarb engaged 12 virtual communities ‘experts’ to get a collaborative sense of their sense of the factors that promote and constrain participation in virtual communities of practice (VCOP).
• CatchingTumbleweeds | Virtual Canuck: ..only 1% post or create new content on Web 2.0 stes, 10% comment and the other 89% are consumers. This is especially hard for formal online education teachers who are used to wielding the “% for participation” ma 'Teresa Burgess studied a longlasting listserv community of nurses and found 8 critical components; shared purpose, trust, guidelines, humor, flexibility, accessibility, expert facilitation, and storytelling. All of these seem important but there is littl
• Tagging 'takes off for web users' | BBC NEWS: Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the trend in tagging is growing among US web users. over a quarter of online Americans - 28% - had tagged content such as a photo, news story or blog.. for users of social networking sites it is just an obvious tool to navigate around the sites they visit.

• Click On... | OUseful Info: A new six part OU/BBC Radio 4 co-produced programme on IT related issues - Click On (Open2.net website) - airs January 31, 2007: BBC Radio 4 at 9pm UK time - listen live on the web via the Radio4 Click On website [Tony Hirst Disclaimer: I'm one of the OU Academic Advisers on this series, which basically means we get to comment on the development of, and a preview of, the script for each edition of the programme. I'll post more about this role in a later post.]
• Molly Holzschlag (Web Standards Project) joins MSIE team | IEBlog : Working Together for a Better Web | excited to announce that I’ve signed on with the Internet Explorer team on a contract basis to work on standards and interoperability issues good news for web standards? '..identify the problems in all browsers and tools, prioritize them, and work toward creating a stable baseline of compatibility from the side of software as well as education

• News Sniffer: The News Sniffer project aims to monitor corporate news organisations to uncover bias. Hilights revisions in some key RSS feeds from BBC, Guardian & Independent (others??) 'Watch Your Mouth' monitors the BBC's 'Have Your Say' website and detects when comments get censored. Revisionista monitors news websites and detects when articles change.. versions are viewable and the changes are highlighted.. suggest other feeds to us.

I just found new service www.Mecanbe.com - sounds like a great concept. According to the site it's "a free service that helps individuals or groups track goals, evaluate performance and measure ongoing progress."