David Davies' Radio Weblog

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:05:24 GMT

Just a quick test post to see if mobile blogging is still working. It's been a while.

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:57:07 GMT

Thought I'd spruce the place up a bit with a new theme and see if it makes me feel like getting back into the blogging saddle.

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:23:12 GMT

I'm at a medical education conference in Amsterdam this week and on Tuesday I gave a workshop on collaborations in e-learning and the need for educational technology standards. We did some group activities including assigning metadata to an object. I thought I'd throw in something about emerging folksonomies and illustrated this by uploading a picture asset to Flickr, adding a few tags then demonstrating how Flickr tags assemble into an informal taxonomy including semantic clustering. Cool, it worked well and I think I made my point successfully.

Anyway, that's not the point of the story. During the Flickr part of the workshop I got a bunch of sniggering from some of the Dutch delegates. Well now as I often try to employ a little humour whenever I speak in public I thought that I must be going down well in the Netherlands. But no, this amount of sniggering made me think there was something I must have missed. Anyway it passed and the workshop went well. At the end, one of the students in the audience came up to me and explained exactly why my presentation cause so much mirth. Seems Flickr, when said out loud sounds a lot like flikker, which if you're Dutch you'll know it means gay! That's why I love travelling, you learn something new every day!

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:45:49 GMT

Released v.01 of my outlinerTool for Dave Winer's OPML editing tool. This first version of the tool includes support for right-click menus to search Google for text selected from outlines including instant outlines. Download the tool by saving the following link to disk in your OPML/Guest Databases/Apps/Tools folder:

http://david.davies.name/weblog/publictools/outlinertools/outlinerTools.root

New versions of the tool and other news and docs will appear here. The tool supports remote updating so once you have this first version you can quickly and simply update the tool from a menu within your OPML application. Have fun and let me know how you get on! Subscribe to my OPML instant outline by clicking on the OPML coffee mug below.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:28:52 GMT

If you want me, I'll be in the Caribbean, working and kicking back for a week...

Sun, 01 May 2005 23:29:29 GMT

Birmingham's very own and only Europe's second AppleStore opened last Friday April 29th @ 6pm coinciding with the release of Tiger, OS X 10.4. Emily queued for almost 3 hours to enter the store and get one of the limited edition T-shirts. Me and Matthew waited until after 9pm and queued for just a few minutes. This picture is of Matt's T-shirt. I've kept mine unopened in the box it came in. Who knows, may be worth something on e-bay one day! Click the photo to see more of my pics of the opening.

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:40:11 GMT

Well whadya know, Apple's second European AppleStore opens in my home town at 6pm on April 29th, timed to coincide with the release of Tiger. Thanks to another new release in the UK, Google maps, here's how to find the new Apple store. Just so that you'll recognise the Bullring when you get to Birmingham, here's the Flickr Bullring picture gallery.