Tag Archives: social change

Register for Barncamp 2013

Posted on 20/05/2013 by Steve Woods

Next month on the weekend from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th, BarnCamp 2013 – a weekend of hacktivism, workshops, entertainment, politics and fun in the sun – will be taking place. BarnCamp is three days of workshops, discussions, demos and … Continue reading →

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Thursday is GAAD

Posted on 08/05/2013 by Steve Woods

We learn from Accessible Bristol that tomorrow, Thursday 9th May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). On that day people all over the world will be coming together to spread the word about accessibility and Accessible Bristol will be among … Continue reading →

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CERN resurrects first ever website

Posted on 02/05/2013 by Steve Woods

In honour of the 20th anniversary of the release of libwww into the public domain (news passim), CERN has resurrected the first ever website at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html As screenshot of the front page of this historic site is shown below, as … Continue reading →

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libwww: 20 years old today

Posted on 30/04/2013 by Steve Woods

The H Online reminds us that 20 years ago CERN in Geneva gave Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau official permission to release the libwww library free of charge, according to Berners-Lee, “to create a server or a browser, to give … Continue reading →

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Bath University researches internet and cognition

Posted on 24/04/2013 by Steve Woods

The University of Bath has an interesting research project on the books at present, investigating the relationship between attention and internet use and is looking for volunteers. This study consists of two phases. In phase I, participants will be asked … Continue reading →

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Free wifi coming to Severn Beach line

Posted on 01/04/2013 by Avril Poisson

The Severn Beach line, which runs between Bristol Temple Meads and Severn Beach on the Severn estuary, is a fortunate part of the railway network. Some 50 years ago it was the only branch line in the Bristol area to … Continue reading →

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Spain’s Galicia region to switch to open source office suite?

Posted on 11/03/2013 by Steve Woods

A report on Joinup, the EU’s open source public sector news website, suggests that the government of Spain’s autonomous region of Galicia is considering a switch to open source office productivity tools. Galicia’s Agency for Technological Innovation and Agasol, the … Continue reading →

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Neelie Kroes criticises lack of women in ICT

Posted on 08/03/2013 by Steve Woods

Today is International Women’s Day and Neelie Kroes, the European Union Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, has drawn attention on her blog not only to the opportunities that ICT can provide for women, but also to the dearth of women … Continue reading →

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Bath time for rms

Posted on 19/02/2013 by Steve Woods

Richard Stallman, aka rms, the Founder and President of the Free Software Foundation, will be giving at talk entitled “Copyright vs Community” at 6.00 pm on Thursday 21st March at the University of Bath as part of this year’s Bath … Continue reading →

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Human population soon to be outnumbered by its mobile devices

Posted on 08/02/2013 by Steve Woods

One of the major developments of recent years has been the growth in mobile internet-capable devices and a new mobile traffic forecast update by Cisco now predicts that the human population of planet Earth will be outnumbered by internet-connected mobile … Continue reading →

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