Tag: rss

One standardised storage format for common data

Sep 27, 2009

in Technology

akonadi, browsers, kde, personal information management, pim, rss, sharing resources, software developers, storage, xml

Is it too much to ask for software developers to agree on one standard storage format for commonly accessed data? Why does every browser that I use have it’s own bookmarking system, rather than one location separated out from the actual programme that all programmes can then access. For example, Firefox keeps it’s bookmarks at…
Technology in the classroom: can we make it work?

Nov 17, 2008

in Learning, Technology

bad teacher, deep learning, e-learning, education, facebook, healthcare, internet, internet access, laptops, rss, students, technology, wikis

I’ve been trying to think how to use technology to enhance both my teaching and my students’ learning and it’s proving more difficult than I’d initially thought. I like to think that laptops and internet access in every classroom give students real-time access to related content while they engage in meaningful discussion, but this will…
How web 2.0 is changing medicine

Aug 20, 2008

in Open access, Social media, Technology, Web

british medical journal, Dean Giustini, healthcare, librarian, open content, podcast, rss, social software, web 2.0, wiki, wikipedia

The British Medical Journal published this article in December (2006), which may not seem like a long time ago in the traditional approach to academic publication but which in terms of the Internet is already old news. It asks, “Is a medical wikipedia the next step?”, a question I think is becoming more and more…

Tag: rss

One standardised storage format for common data

Technology in the classroom: can we make it work?

How web 2.0 is changing medicine