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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Late night public engagement
Don’t be ordinary. If you’ve got some fundamentally interesting kit to show off, use it. It’s a great way to start a conversation about research. I took my eldest to see the university’s astronomical observatory last night. (Astronomical in the … Continue reading
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Is your web search strategy incompetent? Jakob Nielsen thinks so…
Jakob Nielsen has a lot to say about web usability – his latest article on useit.com on search strategy is another source of useful mind-candy. So, what do you do to find stuff on the net? Nielsen reminds us that the … Continue reading
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Statistics and journalism – a can of worms?
Imagine you’re in Australia. Now open a newspaper with specific political leanings. Then read the headline stating that millions of Australians lack the basic skills to keep Australia competitive, according to an official report. Hmm. The article has statistics in … Continue reading
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Backing up your Delicious bookmarks
I don’t know if you spotted, but Yahoo! has been wanting to offload Delicious (social bookmarking site of note) since December. This worried the internet blogerati a little, many of them wondering whether it was good to rely heavily on … Continue reading
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