In August 2007 the University’s email system delivered about 6.6 million emails to staff and 2.9 million to students. The central email gateway rejected 32.5 million spam emails. [Source: Vice-Chancellor's email "Come September" sent to all staff, 28 September 2007]
I’m probably responsible for more than my fair share of this email traffic. The [...]
For the Information Futures project we used Tagcrowd.com to generate visual representations of three documents — the Consultation Paper, the set of 70-odd written submissions, and the draft strategy. These tag clouds have been useful for showing the similarities and differences in what people care about.
Another such tool is Wordle.net, which can automagically make an [...]
Over the years, I’ve built up a toolkit of essential software, gadgets and reference material. This ‘toolkit’ series introduces some particular favorites that you, too, might find useful.
Simple Tags plugin for WordPress
Created by Amaury Balmer, the Simple Tags plugin works with the latest version of WordPress blogging software.
Once installed, the plugin:
allows you to add [...]
Over the years, I’ve built up a toolkit of essential software, gadgets and reference material. This ‘toolkit’ series introduces some particular favorites that you, too, might find useful.
Web Developer add-on for Firefox
Since its early days, I have preferred Firefox over Internet Explorer as my default web browser. Firefox was faster to launch, it downloaded pages [...]
Over the years, I’ve built up a toolkit of essential software, gadgets and reference material. This “toolkit” series introduces some particular favorites that you, too, might find useful.
Excel macro: Clean This Chart
A macro for Microsoft Excel, available free from Juice Analytics.
The macro creates an extra option in Excel’s “Format” menu.
When activated, the macro converts [...]