Posted on April 27, 2008 by bradhinton
I was listening to the radio this week when I heard an interview with a film producer on triple j. Of special note was the comment by the female dj that perhaps casting for movies should be done the same way as decisions are made in those reality tv shows. Just sms your vote! The film producer was [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by bradhinton
I have been reflecting on some of the methods I have used in library and information services in the past to measure and report on success.
At a former workplace, we used software to measure online useage statistics and hit rates. From memory, it wasn’t sophisticated software but gave basic information. The library was consistently in the [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2008 by bradhinton
The latest issue of Information Research is online. A couple of the articles of particular interest to me were on household information practices and Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure. The sample sizes used in both research articles were quite small but the articles did prompt my [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2008 by bradhinton
One of the illuminating insights I came across during the summer break was in relation to abstracts. Now abstracts are common in the professional journal literature as a summary of the full text article, a skill in itself with definite requirements. Abstracts are also written to collate information about articles in particular subjects for subscription-based (often online) bibliographic services. [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2007 by bradhinton
My regular dose of Australian Policy Online has alerted me to the 2007 e-learning benchmarking project.
“The 2007 surveys show use of technology in vocational education and training (VET) has quadrupled in three years since the first benchmarking survey in 2005. The 2005 survey revealed 6-8% of VET activity involved technology, which rose to 17% in 2006 [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2007 by bradhinton
The latest issue of the e-journal, Information Research, is now available.
There are some really interesting papers, especially the paper by Marcia Bates on browsing behaviour and the paper by Judit Bar-Ilan on librarian blogs.
There are several book reviews too, including this one on David Weinberger’s book, Everything is miscellaneous (a book I am currently reading).
All [...]
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Posted on September 6, 2007 by bradhinton
One of the important professional interests, if not actual partnerships, that knowledge management (KM) practitioners need to maintain, is in the realm of information architecture (IA). In that regard, I certainly appreciated the informative blog post from Peter Morville defining the state of information architecture and his thoughts about its future.
Interestingly, Peter identified a tension in definition between IA and interaction design, a [...]
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Posted on August 21, 2007 by bradhinton
It’s been quite a week since I lasted posted. I have been confronted with some technical issues regarding web access and have been limited in the online time available to me. A wireless 3G account might have to be arranged…
Anyway, I can give some follow-up to a couple of activities from last week. Firstly, Patrick Lambe [...]
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