The Cyberactivism session was re-scheduled a few times and became one of the couch sessions, though with about 10-14 being in attendance. My point of hearing wasn't the best but I could make out some of it.
One of the facilitators came prepared with a double-sided photocopy about the UK government's attempts to subvert research spending away from academics.
Corbyn, Z. (2 April 2009) Labour 'usurps'
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Apr 06
2009
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If you glance through my blog on WikiWorldBook you'll notice the last six posts are about the recent OxfordBarcamp. However helpful these may be to readers, posting at such length betrays a lack of learning on my part from Barcamp in that its a collaborative effort Barcamp isn't and shouldn't be centred around the consolidated works of one person. This post, I'm going to reflect on some of the
...Mark Lizar, Identity & Information Researcher, has been looking at mapping CCTVs in the UK. In a pilot study of 10 London? councils, six have provided information on their CCTV operations, two have provided misleading information and one has refused to provide detauks. Four of the six who obliging councils have since included details about their CCTV operations on their websites. For aggregating
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Apr 06
2009
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Much of this session was informed by Nick Burch. Breadcrumb-traces for maps by Nick cycling aroun Oxford on his bike, has formed part of the city's complete geomapping. (Some rather good photographs here) He tells us that a variety of map editors are used including the Flash based Potlatch, and the Java-based JOSM
Nick mentioned that someone had created a geo-mapped database of phoneboxes with
Presented and powered by Developer Oleg Lavrovsky, this quite generated feedback and were one of my favourite sessions of the day. A few of the pros and cons of wiki-ing - revision, pulling in content from around so that no-one person was left doing the job. Also there were issues of control in contribution - the taking up of time of the System Adminstrator. Oleg highlightd different approaches,...
Or 'Facebook is shit', or 'Destroy Facebook'. I can't recall, as I glanced at the open grid schedule and raced so as not to miss the first session. A lot of level-headed roundtable discussion were everyone contributed. Issues of privacy were considered in relation to different perspectives between New Media types and less experienced content suppliers. Someone suggested that an understanding of
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Apr 05
2009
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Barcamp Apache Oxford
5th April, I attended Barcamp Apache Oxford - a concept I'd heard about from Matt Badham and Pete Ashton, and an event which I'd heard about 5 days before from Damian Cugley, and began investigating on the Friday afternoon. I'm going to try to break this down over a few posts to record what I learnt that weekend.
A barcamp "is an international network of user generated...
5th April, I attended Barcamp Apache Oxford - a concept I'd heard about from Matt Badham and Pete Ashton, and an event which I'd heard about 5 days before from Damian Cugley, and began investigating on the Friday afternoon. I'm going to try to break this down over a few posts to record what I learnt that weekend.
A barcamp "is an international network of user generated...