YouTube – Google Privacy Channel
Google has created a Privacy Channel on YouTube (YouTube – Broadcast Yourself ) where it has 23 videos on how to protect your Privacy on some of the Google services and products. (Stop laughing at the...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 ‘stuff’
Just a reminder that I am now posting most of the news on Web 2.0 ‘stuff’ on the UKeiG Web 2.0 blog at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/
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Chipwrapper introduces time-slices
One of my favourite news sites, Chipwrapper (http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/), now offers an option to search for articles within a specified time period. Chipwrapper is a Google custom search engine...
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Online maps for local crime statistics
Police forces in England and Wales are now providing access to local crime statistics via online maps. These allow the public to drill down to ward level and view crime trends in their area. The...
View ArticleBing – don’t bother!
Bing.com has launched and I just cannot believe that Microsoft have made so much fuss over something that is no better than the existing Live.com. The UK version is labelled as beta and the US one as...
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Brighton & Hove bus times on iPhone
Nice one Brighton & Hove, and I am not being sarcastic! According to the Local Government Chronicle Brighton & Hove City Council claims to have the first iPhone bus app. It has launched a free...
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OK, OK – the obligatory snow photos
UK based readers of my blog will know all about the snow that is being dumped on us – and in Reading/Caversham it is is getting worse. For the rest of you here are some photos. Note that these were...
View ArticleLiterature Review (1984): Christmas can seriously damage your health
Some of you may have seen the article in the Times Higher Education – What will poor Robin do then? Perforate your small bowel. It reminded me of an article I wrote for an in-house newsletter in 1984...
View ArticleTop search tips from North Wales
August is usually a quiet month for me with respect to work. Time for a holiday away and then a couple of weeks ambling along the Thames Path or pottering around the garden. This year, though, as soon...
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Search Strategies goes electronic
My publication “Search Strategies for the Internet” is changing and going electronic. There will be shorter articles covering specific search techniques and search engine features. In addition there...
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Graphwords visual thesaurus
Graphwords (http://graphwords.com/) is another thesaurus visualisation tool that uses Wordnet (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/). Type in a word and it generates a map of associated nouns, adjectives,...
View ArticleSlides: Born digital – time for a rethink
My slides from yesterday’s NetIKX workshop, “Digital Native, Digital Immigrant – does it matter?”, are now available on authorSTREAM at...
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Essential non-Google Search Tools – Top Tips
It has been a while since I did a Top Tips from my workshops so here is the first of two that came out of a couple of recent UKeiG events. This collection of Top Tips is a combined list nominated by...
View ArticleWebSearch Academy presentations – edited highlights
Edited highlights from the presentations I gave at the WebSearch Academy on 17th October 2016 at the Olympia Conference Centre, London are now available on SlideShare. They are also available on...
View ArticleReceiving blog postings by email – GDPR
This posting is for those of you who receive articles from this blog by email, and I am sure that many of you within the EU will have received similar notices from other organisations. On the 25th May...
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