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For I’m a Jolly Good Fellow (of the RSA)
Andy Mabbett has accepted the nomination to become a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Continue reading
Posted in about me, humour, open data, social media, Wikipedia
Tagged FRSA, open data, Royal Society, Royal Society for Arts, RSA, social media, The Strand
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Talking about GLAM, Wikipedia and QRpedia in Amsterdam and Hamburg
Andy Mabbett visited Amsterdam and Hamburg in December 2011, to talk about Wikipedia’s GLAM collaborations and the QRpedia project. Continue reading
Posted in about me, humour, microformats, travel, Wikipedia
Tagged airports, Amsterdam, ARKive, aviation, banketstaaf, Boom Chicago, broodje kroket, buzzard, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fieldfare, flying, Fomes fomentarius, fungi, Germany, gevulde speculaas, GLAMCamp, GLAMWiki, Google Translate, Grey Wagtail, Hamburg, Hamburgmuseum, Hindi, iGLAMsterdam, kruidnoten, microformats, museums, Netherlands, Peregrine, Peter Weis, QR code, QRpedia, Saggar Maker's Bottom Knocker, Saint Nicholas, Sarah Stierch, Sinterklaas, Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg, stroopwafel, Switzerland, taxonomy:binomial=Fomes_fomentarius, taxonomy:genus=Fomes, taxonomy:vernacular=Buzzard, taxonomy:vernacular=Fieldfare, taxonomy:vernacular=Grey Wagtail, taxonomy:vernacular=Peregrine, taxotagged, Terence Eden, Wikimedia, wikipedia, Zurich
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Poll: To at or not to at?
Andy Mabbett idly wonders where to put the “@” symbol when linking to Twitter profiles. Oh, and coincidentally, he’s trialling a WordPress plugin for polls. Continue reading
Don’t confuse your social media channels
Piping Facebook status updates to Twitter (or any automation of cross-channel feeds) can give confusing messages. Continue reading
An open letter to Facebook, about their broken microformats
Facebook’s hCard microformats do not conform to the specification. Continue reading
Posted in about me, annoyances, gaffes, humour, microformats
Tagged facebook, hcard, microformats
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25 things about Andy Mabbett
I’ve been wondering whether anyone would tag me to give “Seven Things you Never Knew About Me”, and how on Earth I would come up with that many. My friend and colleague Emma Routh tagged me on Facebook in a … Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, humour, nature
Tagged ashtraygrrl, bad debt, Bad Science, banana, Barry Miles, bbc, ben Goldacre, Birmingham, Birmingham Railway Museum, Cadbury, chilli, COBOL, cornbread, counselling, CPR, dog, driving, Duke of Edinburgh, emma routh, facebook, Fairford, first aid, flying, free, fruit, hair, horse, ICC, International Convention Centre, ita, James Galway, John Bundrick, London Symphony Orchestra, Mary McCartney, meme, microlight, Miles, Moseley Bog, nature reserve, pacifism, paint, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, reading, RSPB, Sir Michael Lyons, stalking, street furniture, TBL, The Amazing Pudding, The Guardian, The Who, urinal, usenet, Victoriana, web, West Midland Bird Club, wig
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Triple tags on Twitter
Triple tags (known as Machine Tags on Flickr) are a way of tagging web content with tags having three parts: a namespace, a predicate and a value. This means that we can differentiate between content about a Beagle dog (tagged … Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, gaffes, nature
Tagged #geo:lon:-1.895389, beagle, flickr, flickr:image=2238938901, geo:lat=52.478342, geo:lat=53.60913, geo:lon=-1.56403, geotagged, hashtags, kingfisher, summize, tagged, tags, taxonomy, taxonomy:binomial=Alcedo_atthis, taxonomy:genus=Alcedo, triple tag, triple tags, twemes, twitter:status=849630924, twitter:status=853592240
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This one's for you, Adrian
My good friend Adrian B., who is a bit of a technophobe, complains that he doesn’t understand most of what I post because “it’s too technical”. Here’s a post just for you, Adrian. (Picture courtesy of Claudecf, via Flickr, Some … Continue reading
Spotted Mimics
As a child, I was often taken to our local shopping centre in Perry Barr, north Birmingham (since replaced by a tin shed with pretensions of being a mall) to see a Mynah bird (Acridotheres tristis). It resided in what … Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, gaffes, microformats, nature
Tagged Acridotheres tristis, biota, Birmingham, birminghamuk, Buteo buteo, buzzard, Common Buzzard, common myna, common mynah, country diary, Eurasian Starling, guardian, microformats, myna, mynah, perry barr, starling, Sturnus vulgaris, taxonomy:binomial=Acridotheres-tristis, taxonomy:binomial=Buteo-buteo, taxonomy:binomial=Sturnus-vulgaris, taxonomy:genus=Acridotheres, taxonomy:genus=buteo, taxonomy:genus=Sternus
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Oops
A WindowsXP error message, projected onto a building in Birmingham, England. Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, gaffes
Tagged geo:lat=52.479692, geo:lon=-1.905848, geotagged, windowsXP
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