Category Archives: nonsense

A new tag line for Cetis?

By Lorna | March 15, 2013

My favourite twitter conversation from #cetis13…

I wish I had a picture of Scott in his zombie t-shirt!

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This is not a blog post…#lwf11

By Lorna | January 11, 2011

Earlier today while listening to the livefeed of Learning Without Frontiers #lwf11 I had the misfortune to hear Katharine Birbalsingh presenting. Not since a recent Alt-C keynote have I seen such a vitriolic twitter backchannel. And in my opinion it was justified. Several people in my twitter feed missed the presentation but [...]

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….more what you’d call “guidelines”….

By Lorna | March 29, 2010

Owen Stephen’s has written a helpful post which makes a very useful contribution to the debate regarding the interpretation of Tim Berners Lee’s Linked Data Design Issues. See my earlier post for a summary of the debate. With all these attempts to clarify the ambiguity I couldn’t help being reminded of [...]

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When automatic metadata generation goes bad…

By Lorna | November 24, 2009

Or the strange case of Drs E. Embuggerance and H. Feisty.

This has already been reported on several other blogs but it’s too good not to share again. Looks like Google Scholar needs to work on its automatic metadata generation algorithm:
Embuggerance, E., and H. Feisty. 2008. The linguistics of laughter. English Today 1, no. 04: [...]

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Wha’s like us?

By Lorna | November 12, 2009

Damn few and they’re aw deid!
Famous deid people namechecked at #cetis09

Charles Darwin

Clarence Darrow

Marshall McLuhan (second year running!)

Les Dawson

Aldous Huxley

William Shakespeare

Joseph Schumpeter

Stieg Larsson

Famous deid programmes….
The MAC Initiative

And a couple of deid bands…

The Clash

Lindisfarne (thanks Oleg!)

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Meet della

By Lorna | May 13, 2009

Several people have already picked up on this on twitter. Meet della from Dell for all you girlies needing to “simplify your life with technology”.

“Tech tips” include:
Get healthier: Use your mini to track calories, carbs and protein with ease, watch online fitness videos, map your running routes and more.
Eat better: Find recipes [...]

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On the nature of genius

By Lorna | November 30, 2008

Qotd from two year old daughter in response to seven year old boy:
7 year old boy: “Rhuna you’re a genius!”
2 year old daughter: “I’m not a genius, I’m a girl.”
Girl being one step up from genius obviously….

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I can see dead people…

By Lorna | November 28, 2008

Famous deceased name checked at cetis08.

Plato

Herbert Marcuse

Martin Heidegger

Jean Francois Lyotard

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Josef Stalin

Peter Kropotkin

Marshall Mcluhan

Cozy Powell

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The dawn of eduprog

By Lorna | November 27, 2008

Without a doubt the zenith of the recent CETIS08 conference has to be the evolution of a new concept in educational technology - eduprog.

(copyright: it’s Phil’s fault)
Eduprog crystalised from the domains of metadata, repositories, educational technology and unusual puddings and is set to challenge edupunk as the real underground movement of the moment. [...]

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Is there something the data centres aren’t telling us??

By Lorna | October 10, 2008

MIMAS totally looks like the Death Star

Mimas being one of the moons of Saturn obviously….
http://totallylookslike.com/2008/09/05/mimas-totally-looks-like-the-death-star/

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