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Re: Vom Blog zum PDF Magazin

mhawksey — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:33 -0000

Hallo (bitte mein Deutsch, weil ich auf Google-Übersetzer). Ich bin der Autor von "Make Tabbloid" und ich bin sehr dankbar dafür, meine Arbeit. Es tut mir leid zu hören, die hatten Probleme mit der Installation. Wie ich schon erwähnt, auf meiner eigenen Website das war meine erste WordPress-Plugin und damit hat es einige "Ecken und Kanten" und wäre sehr interessiert zu erfahren, welche Änderungen Sie hatte zu machen.

Meine Aufgabe ist die Förderung der Nutzung von Technologien in der Bildung und wie Sie RSS-Terminologie wie kann eine große Barriere. Dies ist eine Schande, wie die Technologie selbst ist eine riesige Enabler. Zum Beispiel ist es sehr schwierig, eine Website besucht, die von den Nutzern auf einer regelmäßigen Basis (wie kann man im Wettbewerb mit Standorten wie www.bbc.co.uk ;-). RSS-Reader / Aggregatoren es viel einfacher für die Nutzer Ihre Inhalte zu konsumieren, ohne notwendigerweise den Besuch Ihrer Website.

Ich bin jetzt Wandern. Wie auch immer Ihre Leser daran interessiert sein könnten in einem neuen PDF-Zeitung-Dienst entwickelt, der fünf Filter Projekt http://fivefilters.org/pdf-.... Ich habe nicht ein Plugin für diesen Service noch nicht, aber die Tatsache, dass die Open-Source-Projekt ist es sehr attraktiv.

Viel Erfolg mit Ihrer Website!

Martin

Re: WordPress Adds Themes Optimized for Mobile

mhawksey — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:30:00 -0000

you can even download and install wptouch http://www.bravenewcode.com...

Re: PowerPoint: embedding YouTube video

mhawksey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:56:20 -0000

Great how2!

[For Office 2007 users if you can't find the 'Control Toolbox' toolbar you might need to enable it by opening PowerPoint -> clicking on the Office icon (top left) -> click 'PowerPoint Options' and within the popular tab make sure the 'Show Developer tab in the Ribbon' is checked]

Re: Wordle / Tag Cloud

mhawksey — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:59:26 -0000

A great tip I learned recently is if you put '~' between words then wordle treats keeps the words together. See http://www.jamiekeddie.com/602

Re: What is Ning (and what can I use it for)?

mhawksey — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:36:32 -0000

Is Ning really self-hostable? I've never seen a version running in any other place than ning.com (there also appear to be a lack of how-to's on installation).

Martin

[My biggest gripe with Ning is the email updates on new comments or posts never give any detail beyond "something has been added here". I realise ning want the traffic but come on guys are you that desperate for me to ignore your ads. [rant over]]

Re: Browser extension creates QR Codes

mhawksey — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:26:48 -0000

Have you seen http://splashurl.net ? It's a url shortening service developed by Christopher Gutteridge and Tony Hirst and hosted by University of Southampton. It also has QR code generation with some nice features:

<ul><li>qr codes are generated from shortened urls so they don't need as many data points </li>
<li>they have a little bookmarklet which makes it easy to generate a qr code of the page you are browsing</li></ul>

and my favourite

<ul><li>QR Code Redirection Service - you create a qr code which you can change the redirection on. So you can print a t-shirt with your qr-code and change where it redirects each time you wear it.</li></ul>

Re: Policies for Staff use of Social Media and Social Networks

mhawksey — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:39:04 -0000

Along similar vein to Online Database of Social Policies - The Social Media Toolkit have a similar list: http://socialmediatoolkit.wikispaces.com/Policies+and+Guidelines

Re: VidScan: Timelines Youtube Videos to Shows The Best Parts

mhawksey — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:19:35 -0000

similar idea this site http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.... which uses twitter to let users make timeline comments on YouTube vids. Pro discussion extends into your social network; Con you've got less than 140 char

Re: WordPress Plugin #6: WordTwit

mhawksey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:24:25 -0000

I think your increase in traffic is more about the quality of your posts than a wp plugin ;-)

Re: Twondertiteling

mhawksey — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:32:04 -0000

Hello if you have any problems creating output using iTitle for your the event October please get in touch, happy to help.
Martin

Re: Create A Google Custom Search Engine For Your Research

mhawksey — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:54:52 -0000

CSE is a great tool. There is also some great work from Tony Hirst in harvesting links from social network communities to allow you to search for information from people with shared interests (see http://blog.ouseful.info/20...

Following the trend to Google Instantise everything you can also make Google Instant a Custom Search Engine http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

Re: Twitter and the Future of TV

mhawksey — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:56:06 -0000

There's convergence here not just in live TV, but with the growth of on demand services there maybe a desire to replay the 360 experience. In the UK there have been various experiments with replaying original tweets with the original broadcast using BBC iPlayer http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

I'm sure Twitter also have a close eye on projects like Google TV which have the potential to mash broadcasts with different data sources

Re: Episode 10: When the Ax Man Cometh

mhawksey — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:22:41 -0000

If anyone would like to make timeline based comments on this video it's posted on the experimental uTitle service http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

Re: Automatically Update Your Twitter Lists With Formulists

mhawksey — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:43:59 -0000

There's one feature of Formulists that I think is missing and it's a pretty basic one. That is to create a twitter list from users who use a specific hashtag. Attending more and more events which use hashtags to organise the backchannel it's useful to have a temporary list or users who you can follow to get the community buzz.

Not finding another service to do this I created a Google Spreadsheet which is able to authenticate with Twitter and use the Twitter Search to populate a list of users using a specified search term.

Added bonus as it's a public Google Spreadsheet anyone else can make a copy of it and start populating their own lists (no beta invitation required) more details here http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/2010/11/auto-twitter-list/

Re: Twitter Kills the API Whitelist: What it Means for Developers & Innovation

mhawksey — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:15:55 -0000

I've started developing scripts for Google Spreadsheets (eg http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.....

Going this way appears to means, that for now, you automatically get whitelisted (I guess piggybacking the Google domain).

Here's a screenshot of the API response from Twitter showing I've got a quota of 20,000 requests http://yfrog.com/h4prlbxj )

Re: How Recent Changes to Twitter's Terms of Service Might Hurt Academic Research

mhawksey — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:39:19 -0000

It's time for guerilla tactics. Instead of collecting tweets in a single repository lets disperse them across the cloud. One way might be to start using Google Spreadsheets to collect and share data http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

;)

Re: How Recent Changes to Twitter's Terms of Service Might Hurt Academic Research

mhawksey — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:11:23 -0000

it's difficult yes and yes there would be a lot of holes, but it's not impossible. The Spreadsheet API allows you to create spreadsheets on demand for other users. This could be used to create and track which twitter search terms were being indexed making a searchable catalog of archived tweets.

Re: Export Twitter Friends and Followers To Excel

mhawksey — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:06:35 -0000

If you'd rather have more control over this instead of going through a 3rd party you can also do something similar for free using google spreadsheets http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

Re: The End of TwapperKeeper? (And What to Do about It)

mhawksey — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:07:06 -0000

@derekbruff I think that's what it is, what Twitter doesn't know ...

I've been a big fan of John's work and in my own research into replaying video with conference/lecture tweets (iTitle) I relied, in part, on the API access from TwapperKeeper. Fortunately I recently started looking at how Google Spreadsheets can be setup to automatically capture tweets, which I now use as as a data source for iTitle http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

Whilst Twitter are legitimately enforcing their ToS I think it's the end of the golden-age for Twitter in education, which is a shame

Re: The End of TwapperKeeper? (And What to Do about It)

mhawksey — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:32:44 -0000

Thanks - I have a growing collection of Twitter Spreadsheet mashups that might be of interest to your readers:

For general housekeeping - Export Twitter Followers and Friends using a Google Spreadsheet http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

And if you want to automatically generate twitter lists based on defined searches http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

[The first link highlights some of the benefits of using Google Spreadsheets for this - (the big down side is you have to get you hands a bit dirty setting up the Spreadsheets, hopefully the benefits outweigh this ;)]

Get in touch if you need extra background

Martin

Re: HOW TO: Play Recorded Twitter Conversations In Sync With Your Favorite Shows

mhawksey — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:39:42 -0000

This is so 2010 http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

Re: HOW TO: Play Recorded Twitter Conversations In Sync With Your Favorite Shows

mhawksey — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:25:20 -0000

I don't know if it is a solution TweePlayer resolves so it may be 2012 ;). One of the issues I faced with this technique was that programmes with a well developed hashtag community flooded the timeline with comments making it very hard to see what was going on e.g. at the last UK general elections the televised leaders debates were generating around 30 tweets a second.

So it will be interesting to see if TweePlayer has any curation tools that let you filter out some of the noise (for the leaders debate filtered the list based on MP and candidate tweets http://www.rsc-ne-scotland....

It will be interesting to see if any PR companies pick up on this idea. Who want's to see what people think of a programme when you've potentially got a global focus group commenting on the ad breaks. It would be a very powerful way to present to clients, the clip of the advert with what was said (and you could chuck some sentiment analysis in there as well ;)

[PS I should have said so 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ;)]

Re: HOW TO: Play Recorded Twitter Conversations In Sync With Your Favorite Shows

mhawksey — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:19:47 -0000

That'll be the 'morphic resonance' again ;)

Re: NEWSTOEBOOK.COM - Feedback and Support

mhawksey — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:26:04 -0000

I think what Bcline is saying is he's like a permalink to a epub/mobi version of his rss feed which is refreshed automatically when content is added. Well that's the feature I'd really like ;)

Re: NEWSTOEBOOK.COM - Feedback and Support

mhawksey — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:51:58 -0000

They are great but as a site owner it's too many steps for my users to get epub/kindle versions of my rss feed.

What I think you need is a widget which sit owners can configure then drop on their blog which directly links to fresh downloadable versions of the epub/kindle versions of their feed