This is Part 2 in a planned series of essays on living life online. Part 1 is here. The whole series is tagged mylifeonline for ease of access. Reading the News I read the news today, oh boy – John Lennon In the previous article I showed you my Firefox start up page. In this article I’m going to drill down into my iGoogle portal concentrating on a typical news reading session....
Just announced on the [Efficient Academic Google group](http://groups.google.com/group/The-Efficient-Academic/browse_thread/thread/87d95a64a0c4b8b3/1a89504865a94f33?#1a89504865a94f33) is this “Link Blog” on the [101 Best Teaching Resources](http://101teachingresources.blogspot.com/). An interesting source of ideas and worth keeping an RSS feed on. Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).
Richard McManus of the Read/WriteWeb blog has published an article on [Firefox browser add-ins](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/firefox_add-ons_all_you_need_to_know.php) which includes the top ten list, links to reviews of the “officially” recommended add-ins and some discussion of what will be coming in Firefox 3. Comments give lists and links to other add-ins. My personal list of addons that I use every day: - [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/) addin for blogging. - The [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extension) addin for tagging web pages. - The [del....
Introduction Over the last year or so I have been dipping my toes more and more into the on-line world and experiencing first-hand the Web 2.0 phenomenon. I thought it was time I formally started to report my experiences and reflect on how I am using Web 2.0 technologies. So this is part 1 in a planned series of essays on living life online. Hopefully there’ll be something that others, particularly colleagues at Swansea University, will be able to pick up....
Announced on the W3C news site yesterday (13th June) and just today spotted while trawling my RSS feeds, is the news that Sir Tim Berners-Lee (TBL) has been appointed as a member of the Order of Merit by H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Tim, as you know, invented the World Wide Web, which made this blog possible, and so changed the world as we know it ;-). He’s definitely a hero of mine....