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tutor
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Tutor and demonstrator, Dynamic Web Design ## MSc Design & Digital Media, University of Edinburgh Taught basic web design and development, including responsive design and progressive enhancement, to students from a variety of (mostly non-technical) backgrounds. Marked coursework.
actor: me
content: MSc Design & Digital Media, University of Edinburgh Taught basic web design and development, including responsive design and progressive enhancement, to students from a variety of (mostly non-technical) backgrounds. Marked coursework.
end time: 2012-05-01T00:00:00+0100
name: Tutor and demonstrator, Dynamic Web Design
published: 2012-01-01T09:00:00+0000
start time: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+0000
tag: css
tag: cv
tag: design+and+digital+media
tag: edinburgh+college+of+art
tag: edinburgh
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/html
tag: javascript
tag: mysql
tag: php
tag: progressive+enhancement
tag: responsive+web+design
tag: resume
tag: teaching
tag: web+design
tag: work

wonderful-post
type: Note
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content: Wonderful Post i would to say thanks a lot because your blogspot post talking about Egyptian Pyramids Facts Giza and i have blog too speaking about Ancient Egypt not only i post every day post related to Ancient Egyptian Pyramids ,Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Giza ,Ancient Egyptian Pyramids facts ,Ancient Egyptian Pyramids for kids ,Ancient Egyptian Pyramids history,Ancient Egyptian Pyramids images,Ancient Egyptian Pyramids information Djoser's Step Pyramid so thanks a lot admin again Ancient Egypt ,,,
published: 2012-03-27T09:39:48.028Z
summary: Amy wrote about something
updated: 2012-03-27T09:39:48.028Z

character
type: Article
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content: Suddenly I find myself having to write some fiction to a deadline. A deadline that isn't Nanowrimo, that is. This isn't something I've had to do since my English language GCSE. I deliberately avoided pursuing creative writing in any formal or academic manner, for fear the joy would be sucked from something I love; for fear it would become a chore, or an obligation. But this semester I've imposed this on myself out of determination that my supposedly 'interdisciplinary' masters actually deviate from Web or software development at some point. Not that making writing fiction a part of my final project has in any way reduced the programming. Indeed, I've just added it on top of an already substantial project outcome. But making an Interactive Fiction engine feels much more valuable if I actually write some fiction for it, doesn't it? Suddenly, realistically, I have mere weeks to get this done. My subconscious has been working on it since about December of last year, but I haven't had many committal thoughts. So it's time to make (and justify) some decisions. I already decided that, quite obviously really, the piece needs to revolve heavily around the city of Edinburgh. (Obvious, as the reader will be experiencing it whilst wandering around the city, and I'm studying the affects of physical environment on immersion in a text). As such, I figured doing research about local myths and legends, particularly stories relevant to specific places, is pertinent. Look out for updates on that. Historic and mythical local characters might be useful too. Ian Rankin has famed the Edinburgh streets with his novels, but I'm no crime writer, nor mystery nor thriller. I write science fiction and fantasy; imagining new worlds comes far more naturally to me than conjuring stories in this one. And my time is too short to venture into an unfamiliar genre. So this leaves me trying to figure out how to set a story on the real world streets of Edinburgh whilst maintaining a fantastical element s…
name: Character sketching
published: 2012-05-24T23:38:00.000Z
tag: milos+world
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: fantasy
tag: fiction
tag: icp
tag: icpLog
tag: Milo's+World
tag: msc
tag: nanowrimo
tag: Palimpsest
tag: writing+challenges
tag: writing
tag: palimpsest
tag: icplog
updated: 2013-04-01T00:11:29.385Z

stylesheet
type: Article
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content: About a year and a half ago I realised I needed to get a grip on how to organise my CSS. I established a template, which I proceeded to change drastically with every new project. I noticed recently that I've been reusing a version for the past few projects, with at the most only minor amendments to the general structure. I also noticed how quickly I'm rolling out initial designs using this template. I have finally reached the point where I figured out what I consistently reuse across projects, and finally have a stylesheet structure that makes such intuitive sense to me I can dart around and make changes with my eyes closed. I find my stylesheets are much smaller, but even as they grow, I still know exactly where everything is. I wish I had some statistics to quote about the amount of time spent scrolling through CSS looking for things. I'm confident it is much reduced. Some aspects of my workflow I developed through intuition; I made changes that felt right to me at the time, without really consulting anyone else's best practices. Other things I picked up from here and there. Every now and again I'd search for 'the right way' of doing this and find processes and systems that didn't gel with me (a primary example of this being the number of pre- built grid systems I tried and hated). Eventually I would give up under the sheer number of contradicting points of view, but I probably picked up some subconscious inspiration on the way. I hadn't thought much of this until Chris Eppstein talked about this at FOWD today. A lot of the suggestions he demo'd are very similar to parts of my system (conceptually at least; he was discussing SASS and mine is raw CSS). So I figured it's reached the point it is worth sharing. First things first, I start with a basic Initializr stylesheet; a couple of minor tweaks, but then I largely accept the helper classes and IE fixes and hacks (no need to read this; it's just here for completeness): /* ===========================================…
name: Stylesheet organisation
published: 2012-05-17T16:25:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: clean+css
tag: cleanstyles
tag: css
tag: fowd
tag: frontend
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: stylesheet+organisation
tag: web+dev
updated: 2013-04-01T00:11:02.726Z

ui-for-if
type: Article
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content: This is the first in an upcoming series of posts about my final project for my MSc by Research. For those who don't know, my programme is Interdisciplinary Creative Practices, or ICP for short, and my main focuses so far have been on Interactive Fiction (IF) and the Web. My final project needs a log book. Traditionally such a thing would be compiled by me at the last minute based on notes scattered around my workspace, emails to myself and entries on Google Calendar and Tasks. It's high time I got a grip on my organisation and did this properly, so blog posts tagged "icpLog" will help me keep a proper track of ongoing thoughts and progress. For my final project, I endeavour to create in a "location-aware Interactive Fiction engine". If at this stage you don't know what IF is, read this nice description by Emily Short. Historically IF is programmed using one of several specialist languages along with specialist software packages. The one I am most familiar with is Inform 7, a brilliantly simple but incredibly powerful natural language.. language.. which is perfect for non-programmers who want to create IF. I haven't actually made anything myself with Inform yet (I plan to, in the name of research), but I have read a lot of source code and tutorials. Similarly, IF is traditionally played/read on a user's computer, in their local environment. The open source JavaScript IF interpreter, Parchment, brings playing IF to the Web; much more flexible and shareable, and enabling of many possibilities. One such use of Parchment can be seen in Playfic, which appeared around March this year. Playfic offers a fully in-browser Inform development environment for authors, similar to the Inform software the experienced would be used to running on their own machine. And of course, an online read/play interface for the IF consumers. This interface affords the user the chance to share their work-in-progress with the IF community. The source code for all of the games can be viewed, making…
name: UI for IF
published: 2012-05-13T12:55:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: geolocation
tag: google+app+engine
tag: icp
tag: icpLog
tag: IF
tag: interactive+fiction
tag: interdisciplinary+creative+practices
tag: MSc+by+Research
tag: MSc+project
tag: msc
tag: Palimpsest
tag: python
tag: palimpsest
tag: icplog
tag: msc+project
tag: if
tag: msc+by+research
updated: 2013-04-01T00:11:42.503Z

shifting-focus
type: Article
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content: By sheer coincidence, I find myself neck-deep in creating a custom Interactive Fiction engine during a year in which all kinds of new engines for authoring and enjoying interactive narrative are popping up. Many of these by established programming and literary experts in the IF community. It feels like every week Emily Short posts a review of something new. Most of the ones I've seen recently are more of a Choose Your Own Adventure format than parser-based. Nonetheless, there is a lot I can learn about world modelling and code-free authoring from these systems. Not all of them are open to the public for creating though. All of them seem to be open to Emily Short, however, and she is doing a great job of describing and reviewing her experiences. It occurred to me a while ago that creating the interface for authoring pieces for Palimpsest is potentially more interesting and important than examining the reader experience when it's all done. Readers are much more fickle, and those who spend time writing and creating are by definition the committed and passionate. I'm not saying the readers aren't. But a solid interface for authoring is going to make it much more likely that good experiences for readers are to be created. If I rush through the design and build of the software itself so that I can focus on filling it with content then quizzing readers about the immersiveness of their experiences - as was my original plan there's a good chance I won't spend nearly enough time testing with authors (as I'll be doing the authoring) and will miss the opportunity to allow people to create immersive or particularly engaging experiences, jeopardising the outcomes of the user study stuff in the end anyway. I only have about two months left to work on this in the context of my MSc. Whilst I need something substantial to fill my final report with, I'm certain I'll be continuing to develop this in the future, and I'll only end up having to redo bits from scratch if I cut corners the …
name: Shifting focus (from readers to authors)
published: 2012-06-13T17:02:00.001Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: emily+short
tag: icp
tag: icpLog
tag: IF
tag: interactive+fiction
tag: interdisciplinary+creative+practices
tag: msc
tag: Palimpsest
tag: icplog
tag: palimpsest
tag: if
updated: 2013-04-01T00:11:17.420Z

mentor-edinburgh
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Mentor, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State Helped under 19s prepare projects to present to judges at the Festival of Code.
actor: me
content: Helped under 19s prepare projects to present to judges at the Festival of Code.
end time: 2012-08-10T00:00:00+0100
name: Mentor, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State
published: 2012-08-06T09:00:00+0100
start time: 2012-08-06T00:00:00+0100
tag: cv
tag: festival+of+code
tag: hackathon
tag: mentor
tag: resume
tag: teaching
tag: volunteer
tag: young+rewired+state
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president
type: Article
tmpcontent: # President, SocieTea ## University of Edinburgh At SocieTea we sit around on Thursday evenings and drink fancy teas, make tea puns, and don't force anyone to socialise who doesn't want to. I'm proud to have facilitated this. Even though I'm no longer in charge, I still host a suitcase of tea, cups and saucers, and a tea urn, under my desk in my office.
actor: me
content: University of Edinburgh At SocieTea we sit around on Thursday evenings and drink fancy teas, make tea puns, and don't force anyone to socialise who doesn't want to. I'm proud to have facilitated this. Even though I'm no longer in charge, I still host a suitcase of tea, cups and saucers, and a tea urn, under my desk in my office.
end time: 2014-05-01T00:00:00+0100
name: President, SocieTea
published: 2012-09-01T09:00:00+0100
start time: 2012-09-01T00:00:00+0100
tag: cv
tag: edinburgh
tag: resume
tag: societea
tag: tea
tag: university+of+edinburgh
tag: university+society
tag: volunteer

university-3
type: Article
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content: Even though I don't officially start my PhD until the 1st of October, today really felt like a proper first day of term. I got up early went to a couple of fourth year/MSc classes that I've decided to sit in on (HCI and Text Technologies), went to training for tutoring/demonstrating, filled in some forms, got my new student card (that doesn't expire until 2016!) and most importantly, got the key to my office in the Informatics Forum. My PhD ideas are vague at best right now, though it'll definitely be within the realms of the Semantic Web. According to the proposal I wrote to apply for the position back in May, it'll be to do with provenance of and collaborative creation of digital media artefacts, like comics and films. It'll be interesting to watch that morph and change. Though I became aware of Semantic Web stuff during my undergraduate, I developed my knowledge during my MSc at Edinburgh. Primarily by taking the Multi-Agent Semantic Web Systems course for credit, enjoying it a lot and doing pretty well. (I should be TAing/marking for that this year). I also learnt lots about linked data and other such things at conferences and hacks like Dev8D, and various open data meet-ups. I'm super excited about the future of the Internet - particularly making sure it remains an open, public platform for uncensored expression and knowledge sharing (fingers crossed). Since I'm a technologist, not a lawyer or policy-maker, I have to address this with theoretical and practical research around how people create and share things, and ways to improve connectivity (between people and data), which of course includes the big problems like privacy, security and identity. Whilst I'm confident enough to say I know quite a lot about designing and developing for the Web these days, my Semantic Web knowledge really consists of a basic grounding, and a lot of enthusiasm. There's a ton of research going on in various related areas, so I've decided to read one or two relevant academic papers …
name: University 3.0
published: 2012-09-17T17:19:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: academia
tag: papers
tag: phd
tag: provenance
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-04-01T00:11:52.340Z

national-novel
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-76287535841199097
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content: That's write right, it's the eve of Nanowrimo. Last year, my MSc got violently in the way and I clocked out at about 15,000 words. I'm hoping that this year, my PhD will make friends with my month of literary abandon, and both will come out better for it. I stumbled into a new world last May, wandered around and met some characters over the summer, and have been mulling over them ever since. I put pen to paper to draw a map today, and discovered that more of the world was there than I thought. I have three viewpoint characters, and next I'm going to draw some squiggly lines on a piece of paper to figure out where their paths cross, and what might happen to them along the way. Over the years I'm becoming more inclined towards plotting in advance, but a large part of me never really thinks it'll help. I've been reading A Song of Ice and Fire, and am now gagging to create a world with half as much depth and drama as GRRM has done. Mine will be fantasy, with a hint of sci-fi and a dash of Ancient Egypt (probably no medieval knights). This year I'm going to work in yWriter in an attempt to keep on top of things as I expand settings and characters. I'm hoping to attend more than just the launch party for the Edinburgh Nanobeans group this time round. Though they do meet across the wrong side of town, so I might also start my own write-ins (consisting of just me) in Himalaya Cafe on South Clerk St. (it's ever so comfy, and the chai is the best). If you're writing too, and in that neck of the woods, come and join me. I'm tentatively saying I'll be there between 10 and 11am every day (except Sunday, they're closed), starting on the 5th. (This is going to cost me a fortune in chai, isn't it..) Stay tuned for progress updates. Or lackthereof. PS. I know I promised notes on papers related to my PhD... One day. One day.
name: National Novel Writing Month
published: 2012-10-31T20:01:00.001Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: fantasy
tag: nanowrimo
tag: writing+challenges
tag: writing
updated: 2012-10-31T20:02:23.377Z

phd-informatics
type: Article
tmpcontent: # PhD in Informatics ## School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Something something linked data something social profiles something context-aware self-representation on the web doodah online personas social machines uhhhh decentralisation. I guess I'll update this when I'm feeling more sure of myself. **Graduation expected:** July 2016 (funding runs out) / late 2017 (more realistically) **Publications:** See [/pub](/pub) **~~Humoured~~ Supervised by:** Ewan Klein and Dave Robertson.
actor: me
content: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Something something linked data something social profiles something context-aware self-representation on the web doodah online personas social machines uhhhh decentralisation. I guess I'll update this when I'm feeling more sure of myself. Graduation expected: July 2016 (funding runs out) / late 2017 (more realistically) Publications: See /pub Humoured Supervised by: Ewan Klein and Dave Robertson.
name: PhD in Informatics
published: 2012-10-01T09:00:00+0100
start time: 2012-10-01T00:00:00+0100
tag: academia
tag: cv
tag: education
tag: informatics
tag: linked+data
tag: online+personas
tag: phd
tag: resume
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+machines
tag: social+profiles
tag: social+web
tag: university+of+edinburgh
tag: user-generated+content

advice-willful
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-962014153296862719
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content: Picked up on some great advice during an afternoon-long course entitled 'How to do an Informatics PhD' a couple of weeks ago. All through my undergraduate, and probably High School as well, I was told that when writing assignments I should treat the person marking it as if they don't know anything at all about the subject. They're stupid. Leave nothing unexplained. Of course, we were often also told to 'keep things concise' and usually had to do this under the constraints of page or word limits. Problematically, some people could have interpreted this as an opportunity to try to pull the wool over their marker's eyes, or baffle them with science. Typically, the marker will know something about the subject, so that's probably not a great tactic. I see where this advice comes from of course, and a couple of weeks ago I heard it phrased in a different way, that makes far more sense. The examiner will be knowledgeable about the subject, but given to willful misunderstanding of what you're trying to say. I think that gives a much better guide to how and when to explain things. And also makes them more of an enemy to be conquered, than an inconvenient fool to be deceived. And whilst I'm recounting advice I like, here's something that has stuck with me since 2010, from my manager at Google at the time. When presenting to a large audience of people, don't think of them as a crowd. Think of them as many individuals. Make your presentation as you would to a single person. It just so happens that there are lots of single people there all at the same time. Since letting that sit in my subconscious, nerves before giving a presentation have shrunk to negligible levels. It may be that over the past two years I've become more confident anyway, but I used to be thoroughly terrified of standing up in front of even a classroom of people the same age as me. I wouldn't talk out in lectures for the most part of my undergraduate, and harbored a gut-wrenching fear of being picked on to ans…
name: Advice: willful misunderstanding, and audience as individuals
published: 2012-11-28T00:40:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: academia
tag: advice
tag: essays
tag: misc
tag: phd
tag: presentations
tag: presenting
updated: 2013-04-01T01:49:48.060Z

national-novel-procrastinating
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1244692952202844188
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content: It's day nine, and I'm on two thousand, eight hundred and seventy words. A quick calculation might tell you that that means I'm quite behind schedule. This may be my worst year yet. There's still plenty of time to get back on track though! Right..?! I've only spent any time writing on about three or four of those nine days so far. But I have been to a conference, organised some SocieTea events, read bits and pieces related to my PhD, cleaned my flat, watched a few episodes of Arrested Development, learnt some new crochet stitches and started crocheting a hat, and baked a lot. I did meet the Edinburgh NanoBeans and had a great time at the write-in in Pulp Fiction last Wednesday. We may have spent more time collaboratively developing the backstory of Pedro the Guide Bear (a troubled young grizzly attired in an Elvis costume and boater hat who constantly struggles against his estranged father, Yogi, the leader of an organised crime syndicate) than actually writing our novels though. I have learnt one particularly important thing this year, that's never come up before. Talking ideas through with other people is really useful! Last Sunday, Beth helped me explain the absence of a main character's mother and fix a potential looming plot hole with one fell swoop. Telling Kit about the various civilisations and layout of the land in my world allowed him to pick holes and question things, raising, and partially solving, some things that didn't make sense or yet more potential looming plotholes. And Caitlin (a new NanoBeans writing buddy) pointed out that just because a character had been anticipating reading a letter for the last thousand words, didn't necessarily mean the letter had to contain anything interesting... it could be a disappointment to the character... which helped, as I hadn't figured out what the letter said, and all of a sudden the character was opening it. I sure wish blogging about Nano counted towards the word count.
name: National Novel Procrastinating Month
published: 2012-11-09T15:58:00.003Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: fiction
tag: nanowrimo
tag: tips
tag: writing+challenges
tag: writing
updated: 2012-11-09T15:59:04.888Z

notes-ontology-creation
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4421654728093186568
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content: Yesterday I unexpectedly read two whole papers about ontology development methodologies. They were open in tabs I don't remember opening, but presumably did so during our weekly Ontologies With A View meeting last Friday. There are still a bunch more tabs open with papers or articles about the same thing, so maybe I'll read those later.. The notes are here more or less as I scribbled them down whilst reading, and I haven't expanded with any analysis or discussion as of yet. Notes in purple are things I intend/need to investigate further; colour-coding is just for me, really. Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu & Magda Husiman (2011) Combining Ontology Development Methodologies **and Semantic Web Platforms for E-government **Domain Ontology Development. International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT) Vol.2, No.2, April 2011 Start by describing ontology in a human-readable way, then turn to RDF (etc) to be machine readable. Says there's not sufficient practical research around existing technologies or ontology development guidelines that would allow non-experts in e-government domain to make ontologies. Uses framework from Uschold & King (see later in this post) to describe ontology - technique used here should be platform independent. Then uses UML to semi-formally represent ontology Uses Protege and Jena to convert to OWL and RDF Paper's goal is to produce guidelines for e-government developers to create semantic content AND strengthen adoption of Semantic Web technologies in governments (particularly developing countries). Outlines RDF, OWL, Protege and Jena (described as leading platforms; mentions other platforms: WebODE, OntoEdit, KAON1, Sesame). Very critical of other literature; either ontologies have been produced but no practical information given; they've been developed with proprietary platforms; or they're only conceptual and don't say how they could actually be constructed with existing technologies. other studies have not focused on a methodological a…
name: Notes about ontology creation methodologies (2 papers)
published: 2012-11-21T12:43:00.002Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: methodologies
tag: ontologies
tag: ontologieswithaview
tag: ontology+building
tag: ontology
tag: phd
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rdf
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-04-01T00:10:46.448Z

notes-semantic-communities
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8958570913820346159
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content: K. Faith Lawrence & Dr. Monica Schrafel (2007) Amateur Fiction Online - The Web of Community Trust: **A Case Study in Community Focused Design for the Semantic Web. Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, **University of Southampton. NB. Need to read her full thesis, of the same name. Will probably clear up some of the questions I scribbled whilst reading the paper. Finding out if Semantic Web tools can be brought to hobbyist groups on the Web. Uses the online fiction community; suggests they could benefit from: improved searching improved meta data automatic recommendations trust webs personalisation. A HCI project, so usability tests and comparisons with current systems are key. Related work Community centered design to determine user needs - through continual interactions and user studies. to consider how reader-facing apps present themselves and particular community responsibility of being a portal - need clear affordences and points of failure. Trust and Semantic Communities The semantic web “provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.⁂ - Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. The semantic web. Scienti﭂c American, May 2001. Do we trust: metadata data mechanism by which data is returned person requesting data? Many definitions of trust. Jennifer Golbeck's trust onotology to go with FOAF (Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, and James Hendler. Trust networks on the semantic web. In Proceedings of Cooperative Intelligent Agents 2003, 2003.): ratings of 1 - 9 for trust of associates. Extended for FicNet (this paper) Here, trust: "the expectations that arise that an individual will not act in a way that is detrimental to another individual or community." I might need to expand that for my stuff... maybe... maybe this will do. Case study Community predates the Internet. (duh) Necessary to get opinions from people outside of the ama…
name: Notes about Semantic Web tools for online communities
published: 2012-11-26T21:59:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: ficnet
tag: foaf
tag: fop
tag: linked+data
tag: online+communties
tag: ontologies
tag: ontomedia
tag: paper
tag: phd
tag: provenance
tag: semantic+web
tag: trust
updated: 2013-04-01T00:10:03.477Z

remediating-social
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3044622027455090554
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content: I spent the last few days in Edinburgh College of Art, helping out at the Remediating the Social conference. I was in charge of making sure everyone's microphones were on, and slides were being projected, which turned out to be more work than anyone anticipated. Only minor hiccups occurred though, usually when I unplugged something I shouldn't have by accident. I couldn't have done it without my glamourous assistant José, who was the master of fiddling with Macbook screen resolutions to make them play nice with the projector. More importantly, I saw some super interesting talks, and met and talked to some fantastic smart people about electronic literature, and other things. I also presented about Palimpsest, in front of the biggest audience I have ever talked in front of. Go me. Videos of everything from the conference are here. On the last day I implemented an idea that had been kicking around the back of my mind for a while, which was the Uninformative Twitter Wall, or Twitter Squares. It's nothing particularly complex; it uses jQuery and probably has memory leaks. I'd love for people to help themselves to the code and improve it. Converting a hash of a tweet text into a hex code, I generated coloured squares for the results of a search term. If the feed you choose is updating a lot, then the squares move around quickly and it looks pretty funky. If there are only occasional new tweets, then it looks less exciting, but is still equally useless for seeing what people are saying. (Unless you hover over the squares). That's okay though, because it's Art.
name: Remediating the Social #elmcip
published: 2012-11-05T18:47:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: conference
tag: edinburgh
tag: electronic+literature
tag: elmcip
tag: events
tag: hacking
tag: interactive+fiction
tag: remediating+the+social
tag: speaker
tag: twitter+squares
tag: twitter+wall
updated: 2013-05-18T16:48:28.540Z

speaker-panellist
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Speaker and panellist, Remediating the Social ## ELMCIP Conference, Edinburgh College of Art Presented "Palimpsest: location aware electronic literature" and panellist on "Writing Different Together". I think this was my first talk to over 100 people.
actor: me
content: ELMCIP Conference, Edinburgh College of Art Presented "Palimpsest: location aware electronic literature" and panellist on "Writing Different Together". I think this was my first talk to over 100 people.
end time: 2012-11-03T00:00:00+0000
name: Speaker and panellist, Remediating the Social
published: 2012-11-01T09:00:00+0000
start time: 2012-11-01T00:00:00+0000
tag: conference
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tag: geolocation
tag: icp
tag: interactive+fiction
tag: interdiscinplinary
tag: msc
tag: palimpsest
tag: resume
tag: speaker

week-review
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content: 19th November - 25th November I read two papers about ontology development methodologies. Notes are here. I read two articles by Bennett Haselton about decentralized social networking, which happened to pretty much sum up and beautifully articulate everything about that that has been floating in my subconscious for a couple of weeks. I saw links to them in the latest Circumventor email, which I've been subscribed to since High School for bypassing the internal blacklist, and remain subscribed to because the jokes at the end are always laugh-out-loud funny. I attended an all day course entitled 'practical project management for research students'. It was attended by a diverse bunch of seemingly really lovely people. The two ladies running it, from the IT Project Management department in the University, were lovely too. The stuff covered was all obvious, common sense stuff (and pleasantly the organisers didn't try to claim otherwise) - but sometimes it's helpful to have it all written down and waved in your face. And structured, in particular. Made me actually focus on thinking about organising my project. The main thing I hadn't much considered, even subconsciously, was formally identifying stakeholders for a project and their relative interest/power in the project. There are a bunch of tools at projects.ed.ac.uk to aid in project management. It prompted me to do these week-in-review posts, as I realised I haven't been recording properly everything I've been doing (an overview of my time goes on my calendar, but no detail). The sandwiches weren't great, but fortunately when I got back to the Forum there were massive slabs of chocolate cake left over from some event. I love the Forum. I booked a place at the 1st International Open Data Dialogue in Berlin, and necessary flights. Despite the short notice, it worked out logistically because I need to be in London on the 7th anyway, so I can simply go to London on the 4th, fly to Berlin from there for the 5th and 6th, and…
name: Week in review: Pancakes & Project management
published: 2012-11-26T01:27:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: 1st+international+open+data+dialoge
tag: berlin
tag: digital+methods+as+a+mainstream+methodology
tag: london
tag: ontologies
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tag: open+data+dialogue
tag: open+data
tag: pancakes
tag: phd
tag: project+management
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-04-01T00:10:08.526Z

community
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Community Coordinator for Edinburgh ## Open Knowledge Scotland I help with organising Open Knowledge Meetups and Open Data Maker Nights. This definitely has nothing to do with my PhD supervisor being the OK Scotland Ambassador.
content: Open Knowledge Scotland I help with organising Open Knowledge Meetups and Open Data Maker Nights. This definitely has nothing to do with my PhD supervisor being the OK Scotland Ambassador.
name: Community Coordinator for Edinburgh
published: 2012-12-01T09:00:00+0000
start time: 2012-12-01T00:00:00+0000
tag: community+coordinator
tag: cv
tag: events
tag: ok
tag: okfn
tag: open+knowledge
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digital-totem
type: Article
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actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
name: Digital Totem Pole
published: 2012-12-12T11:36:00.001Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: chris+speed
tag: community+hacking
tag: digital+sentinel
tag: eca
tag: fields
tag: php
tag: plugin
tag: totem+pole
tag: web+development
tag: wester+hailes
tag: wordpress
updated: 2012-12-12T11:36:51.514Z

pecha-kucha
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Pecha Kucha, Digital Methods as a Mainstream Methodology "Digital Media on the Semantic Web", [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eB3uw3vlR47tyFJFRkcobMHlCTf4spAFNrHSVCmPXHQ/edit#slide=id.p).
actor: me
content: "Digital Media on the Semantic Web", slides.
end time: 2012-12-07T18:00:00+0000
name: Pecha Kucha, Digital Methods as a Mainstream Methodology
published: 2012-12-07T09:00:00+0000
start time: 2012-12-07T09:00:00+0000
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week-review-2
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2457346054749920727
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content: 26th November - 2nd December I read a paper about Semantic Web tools for online communities. Large parts of this project are comparable to my own, I think, and I will probably keep going back to it for inspiration. I did a lot of non-PhD related things, too.
name: Week in review: Not much
published: 2012-12-03T14:32:00.003Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: online+communities
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-04-01T00:09:58.891Z

week-review-3
type: Article
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content: 3rd December - 9th December I went to the 1st International Open Data Dialogue (#odd12) in Berlin on Wednesday and Thursday, and gave a lightning talk at Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology (#dmmm2) in London on Friday. Both were brilliant; I met a ton of interesting people, learned loads and gained much inspiration. My extensive notes are in the process of being typed up and thought about, and will be published on here as soon as humanly possible! Now I'm going to catch up on sleep that crack-of-dawn flights and many hours of train journeys have denied me recently.
name: Week in review: Conferences
published: 2012-12-08T23:01:00.000Z
tag: dmmm2
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tag: #dmmm2
tag: #odd12
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tag: digital+methods
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tag: odd12
updated: 2013-04-01T00:09:54.514Z

week-review-4
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1212678883135712421
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 10th December - 16th December Boy, this Week in Review thing really highlights when I haven't done a lot, doesn't it? I guess that's the point. I spent most of the week not getting round to writing up and analysing my notes from the conferences. We had an Ontologies with a View meeting. I made a few connections and sent a few emails. I did lots and lots of useful, but non-PhD-related things. Honest.
name: Week in review: Not much again
published: 2012-12-16T18:27:00.000Z
tag: doing
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tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:09:50.003Z

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