Thing 8 is Facebook and here is a cautionary tale…. I have not been a Facebook user for a couple of years now, but that is more by accident than design. I first started using Facebook in 2007, primarily to chat with work colleagues outside work and to keep in touch with various friends and family. I used […]
Category: 23 Things Syndicated
As I already have a twitter account that I use fairly frequently I went through the immediate section for this Thing. I knew that lists existed on Twitter and have been added to other peoples lists but had never created a list myself. Even though I now know how to create a list on Twitter, … Continue reading Twitter →
Accessibility
Accessibility on websites is something I think about day to day in my job. Many of the websites I use regularly are behind a login page so unfortunately I am unable to test them using the http://wave.webaim.org page so I have decided to look at the accessibility features on my iPad instead. Having previously used some … Continue reading Accessibility
things can only get beta
Back in the days of Web 2.0 we used to describe things as ‘perpetualy beta‘. For me this perfectly describes Wikipedia. It’ll never be finished: we must add to, and improve it, early and often. Users are co-developers and it’s developed under open source principles of collective intelligence. Wikipedia/Wikimedia are Thing 10 in our ‘23 …
Thing 10: Wikimedia
I know I’ve skipped thing 9, but I’m holding off writing about Collaborate Ultra/Google Hangouts until after the live sessions. Today I attended the University of Edinburgh’s Ava Lovelace Day event. In the morning I… More
Accessibility
I put a website address into Website Accessibility eValuation Tool (WAVE) and was surprised by what I found. There were multiple errors on the homepage of the website I chose and quite a few accessibility concerns. I was aware of software and technology that can help people with accessibly concerns but hadn’t thought about the … Continue reading Accessibility →
Thing 3: Digital Footprint
Well this was interesting. I tried Googling myself, and as expected came up with a lot of work-related results, as my name appears on all the libguides I curate as part of my job. However, I need to try again from home to see what the difference will be on a non-work machine. Results from … Continue reading Thing 3: Digital Footprint
Diversity
When I updated the software on my phone and laptop I had noticed that there were differences in the emojis that were now available for me to use. I was particularly pleased to see that there were more character options where the person was a woman instead of a man i.e. there is now a … Continue reading Diversity →
Thing 2 (23 Digital Things)
Late to the 23 Digital Things party, but looking forward to
a) brushing up the digital skills I already possess (or think I do) and making sure what I know (or think I know) is still current, and
b) learning new stuff with a group of people who are all…
Thing 10: Wikimedia
Yes, I know I’ve skipped Thing 9, but I’ll cover that later in the week when the Google and Collaborate hangouts have taken place. I decided against setting myself up as an editor of Wikipedia. I’m probably not knowledgeable enough about anything to be confident in making changes to an existing page. The alternative task […]
Thing 10: Wikimedia
Yes, I know I’ve skipped Thing 9, but I’ll cover that later in the week when the Google and Collaborate hangouts have taken place. I decided against setting myself up as an editor of Wikipedia. I’m probably not knowledgeable enough about anything to be confident in making changes to an existing page. The alternative task […]
Data visualizations for Facebook: Thing 8
Thing 8 asked us to look at Facebook. I have had an account for many years and have used groups, lists, pages, etc. When searching for Facebook photos on Flickr for this post’s header image, I came across a neat graph that showed friend networks. I started digging into it to see if I could […]