//Google gave us Knol (we didn’t need it), now it’s taking it away (meh…), and instead has given us Annotum, something far more useful than Knol was ever going to be. Annotum is a free (as in speech and beer) theme for WordPress that turns a site into an open access publishing platform suited to […]
//A brief technical post. In the past week, I’ve offered this advice to a couple of people, so I thought I might as well write it down here, once and for all. In running WriteToReply, JISCPress and blogs.lincoln, I’ve learned a bit about optimising WordPress’ use of RAM. Basically, the steps I use are: wp-super-cache […]
//My presentation for the RSP event: Doing it differently. No slides, just a live demo using the outline below. 1. WordPress is an excellent feed generator: http://joss.dev.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/04/15/addicted-to-feeds/ 2. It’s also an excellent, personal, scholarly CMS http://joss.dev.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/08/25/scholarly-publishing-with-wordpress/ 3. If you have an RSS feed, you can create other document types, too http://joss.dev.lincoln.ac.uk/2010/01/04/creating-a-pdf-or-ebook-from-an-rss-feed/ 4. We conceived a […]
//Together with our Web Manager, Chris Goddard, I ran a session on the use of WordPress in HE at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010. It was good to see all chairs taken and people seemed to get something out of it. It was useful for me, too, to find out about how WordPress is […]
//These are slides to accompany an eight minute ‘Lightning Talk’ for the dev8D conference in London, 24-27th February 2010. Each slide is a link to a blog post I have written on ways to use WordPress and WordPress Multi User, that are not about blogging. Brief notes are available from slide 12 onwards. WordPress: Beyond […]
//I’ve just knocked up a ‘Social Repo‘ site and would be keen to get some feedback on the general idea. It’s a WordPress site in microblog mode driven by feeds from our repo via the FeedWordPress plugin. Just an experiment in automating something similar to our Post2Blog plugin. As a way of making EPrints content […]
//I’ve spent much of today trying to finish off a site for anyone interested in learning how to sketch. Pam Locker, a Principle Teaching Fellow and lecturer on the Design for Exhibitions and Museums degree, had produced (with her colleagues) ten, good quality videos on learning how to sketch and wanted to make them widely […]
//As is often the case, I struggle at first glance to see the full implications of a new development in technology, which is why I so often rely on others to kick me up the arse before I get it. ((I am not ashamed to admit that I’m finding that my career is increasingly influenced […]