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How I didn’t get a job at Google (and why you should be getting graduates onto LinkedIn) 23 Aug 2013 | 01:57 am
Recently I gleefully exclaimed on Twitter “exciting news” and despite the interest I didn’t feel until now that I could reveal what had happened, Google were looking for a hire … Google were looking t...
EOF/SOF: Building a connectivist conference platform for ALT-C using WordPress (first look) 31 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
You may have seen from my colleagues Lorna Campbell (In the meantime…) and Sheila MacNeill (Sideways) that the University of Strathclyde office for Cetis is closing at the end of the month. Things are...
What I’ve starred this month: July 28, 2013 30 Jul 2013 | 05:14 pm
Here's some posts which have caught my attention this month: Martin Hamilton’s blog: How to be a Hacker: Code Poets, Technocamps, and the IT Skills Crisis – July 19, 2013 Seven rules of successful r...
Google Spreadsheet: How to compare two strings and highlight the differences 30 Jul 2013 | 12:41 pm
From the postbag Marjolein Hoekstra (CleverClogs) writes: Short description Can you make a Google Script for me that compares two strings character by character? If differences are found, the script ...
How to open a Google Spreadsheet at a specific row for editing 23 Jul 2013 | 02:47 am
This was the question that came in over the wire this morning: @mhawksey @psychemedia Could you guys please think of a way to open a Google Spreadsheet at a specific row, preferably as a URL paramete...
Hello SEO: Where worlds collide 19 Jul 2013 | 01:52 pm
Perhaps the worst SEO post title I could possibly use. If you are still wondering what SEO is ask Nitin Parmar ;) After over 15 years of working with web technologies, this is the first time I’ve lea...
Linkage: Funding, licensing, managing research data, LTI, Google Analytics cohort analysis and more 17 Jul 2013 | 02:48 pm
Some stuff from last night that caught my eye (reflections follow each tweet): "Jisc ITT: Feasibility Study on digital repository infrastructure solutions for ‘unsupported’ digital assets" http://t.c...
Notes on liveblogging (never again) 11 Jul 2013 | 01:30 pm
For a long time I’ve been in awe of live bloggers like Nicola Osborne and Doug Clow and on several occasions benefitted from being able to point to the information they have captured in posts. This ex...
LASI-UK: Afternoon Session – Data Visualisation [Liveblog] 5 Jul 2013 | 05:51 pm
Giles Carden (University of Warwick) Good data visualisations solve real business problems Covering key components for effective data visualisation. Informed by Stephen Few’s work using the followin...
LASI-UK: Morning Session – Working with Dialogue Data [Liveblog] 5 Jul 2013 | 02:07 pm
Sheila MacNeill (JISC CETIS) Setting the scene: learning scenarios Overview of learning scenarios, broadbrush, what data do we have access to. Where does it take place? Learning taking place in vari...
