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The annual festive market and ice rink has opened courtesy of the cathedral and the Church of England. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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The massive organisational restructuring undertaken by former Minister for Health, Andrew Lansley, after the last election is now starting to have practical effects on the services provided by the National Health Service. Read all about the likely changes to provision of maternity services in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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I’ve gone back to education by enrolling in an entirely online course at one of my local universities – The University of Southampton.
Edited: 15th November 2013. Some questions about use of the worldwide web.
- How do you use the Web?
It is a key tool for my work. I use it for research, discovery and for confirming information from other sources, which are often anecdotal knowledge from conversation.
- Do you just look up information on the Web?
See immediately above.
- Talk to friends on it?
I do, typically using the micro blogging service Twitter or in closed forums in organisations to which I belong.
- Search it like an enormous Yellow Pages of businesses and services?
At times yes, although in recent times I have found it increasingly efficient to find the actual experts in the subjects in which I am interested. You could characterise this as going direct to the source of the information.
- What does your Web look like?
I imagine it as some sort of organic structure like a circulatory system or plant roots and branches.
- Do you learn from it, are you entertained by it, or does it help you to run your life?
All three although I’d reorder the priority of order in the question above.
- How would you characterise yourself as a ‘browser’ or ‘user’ of the Web?
If I had to choose, a user but I don’t think the distinction is particularly valuable.
- Do you think your usage is typical – and does it depend on your age, lifestyle, class, race, nationality or professional status?
I’m wary of labels such as typical and especially in a developing human communication system. Again, if pushed, I’d say I was a persistent or even heavy user of the technology. I am sure that my ability to access the web is highly dependent upon my age, lifestsyle, class, nationality and professional status.
- Perhaps you can think of an interesting way to visualise your use of the web – a chart or diagram that you can upload to your own blog and link to from this discussion.
Please return to the top of this post. Thanks for reading!
After that you might like to watch this video about the pre-history of the web by Les Carr.
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Nigel Farage, current leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party is to become a columnist on The Independent newspaper and website.
Updated: 14th May 2015 – Despite the impressive number of votes gathered by UKIP in the General Election of 2015, there are signs of serious strain at the top of the party.
Updated: 30th July 2015 – It remains to be seen what the future holds for the promotion of Mr Farage ahead of the referendum of UK membership of the European Union which is scheduled for June 2016.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s film Gravity is a smash at the Box Office and provides a handy vehicle for the a pop at the Coalition government’s success in extracting the UK from the economic wreckage left by the banks.
By the way, the film is terrific, visceral stuff.
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Sometimes when you have to travel for work, you can get asked to fulfill an urgent deadline and last week was one of those times.
I had little time to supply and not much in the way of kit so I had to improvise by drawing, photographing and editing a drawing on a mobile telephone. You can see it above. If you look carefully a the image you’ll see the pencil construction lines under the joke.
The story was a sad one about the anticipated redundancies at Hampshire County Council, the week after the great St Jude’s storm warning. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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The first criminal trial resulting from the News of the World phone hacking revelations has started.
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Do not feed the trolls, online or otherwise.
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After the long wait for reform of the global and UK banking industry there is some news as a community ‘Local bank’ will be opened in Winchester in 2014. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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Teachers from Hampshire are among many from The NASUWT and NUT striking this week. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
