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My final three days in Washington DC
Andy Mabbett concludes the tale of his recent trip to Washington DC. Continue reading
Posted in about me, microformats, travel, Wikipedia
Tagged Bill of Rights, Blackbird, Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Concorde, coordinates, Daniel Mietchen, David Ferriero, Discovery, Dupont Circle, Enola Gay, EvoMRI, George Washington University, geotaging, GLAMWiki, google maps, Infoboxes, Iran, Israel, John Bull, John Cummings, Lockheed SR-71, Lori Byrd Phillips, Magna Carta, metadata, microformats, mobile, Monmouthpedia, New York, QRpedia, Quarl, Sarah Stierch, Space Shuttle, SR-71, Sue Gardner, travel, unconference, Washington, WashingtonDC, Wikimania, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Yahoo
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The BBC, Open Content and Wikipedia
Andy Mabbett describes how the BBC could make more use of Wikipedia’s open-licensed content on its regional news and sport pages Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, ideas, microformats, Pink Floyd, social media, Wikipedia
Tagged Assay Office, bbc, Birmingham, hBiota, Mailbox, microformat, microformats, open content, Pink Floyd, Robin Morley, social media, species microformat, wikipedia
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Lightning Talks Strike Twice
I very much enjoyed attending Local Gov Camp North West last weekend. Although it was attended by fewer people than other unconferences I’ve been to (due to people crying off for fear the impending snowpocalypse would leave them stranded in … Continue reading
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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Extracting contact data from e-mail signatures
Andy Mabbett proposes a simple standard for recording contact data in plain text e-mail sigs. Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, ideas, microformats, web standards
Tagged email, gmail, google, hcard, idea, metadata, microformat, vcard, vcf
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How can I automate repetitive find’n'replace operations?
Andy Mabbett asks for help automating a large series of find’n'replace operations, which need to be performed monthly, to update the West Midland Bird Club website which he maintains. Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, microformats, nature
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The 9th and 10th QR Code commandents
Andy Mabbett replies to Terence Eden’s request for commandments for people using QR Codes. Continue reading
Posted in ideas, local government, microformats, web standards
Tagged busses, EdenT, hcard, microformats, nesky999, public transport, QR, QRCode, QRCodes, twitter:user=edent, twitter:user=nesky999, Vanessa Pearce, vcard
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Will we get a warm welcome or a cold shoulder at Tech Wednesday?
Andy Mabbett notes that a new attendee at Tech Wednesday left with a bad impression, and suggests some lessons that might be learned. Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, Birmingham, microformats, social media, web standards
Tagged Aston, Birmingham, Birmingham Science Park, Birmingham Social Media Cafe, BirminghamSPA, bsmc, C++, coffee, coworking, geek, geo:lat=52.488678, geo:lon=-1.887298, geotagged, html5, Jane Fisher, janefisherorganise, JaneOrganise, meetup, otaku_coder, social, social networking, SQL, tech, Tech Wednesday, techies, twiitter:status=70436025842933760, twitter:user=birminghamspa, twitter:user=JaneOrganise, twitter:user=otaku_coder, twitter:user=techwednesday, vcard, web design, web development
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Improving the already excellent ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ WordPress plugin
Andy Mabbett likes the ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ plug-in for citing tweets in WordPress.org blog posts, but has some suggested improvements. Continue reading
HashMash: My invention of a new hashtag search tool
Andy Mabbett has invented a new tool for searching for related hashtags. Simon Painter has developed it. Continue reading