Adobe have been working on a cool user interface for visualising how web pages have changed over time, called Zoetrope.

From Technology Review: Back-Button to the Future.

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Digital Preservation  Web Archives  Visualisation

Science commons, the video, explaining all about how the science commons works.

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Science  Open Access

Well, we all got the American president that they deserve. It’s good to hear about all the goodwill and hope in the air.

Obama is known as an eloquent orator, but as far as I can tell his victory speech has not been aired in full on the news here in the UK. However, it is on the BBC website and is worth a watch: Obama’s victory speech in full.

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I’ve been impressed by the growing volume of free talks, books and other high-quality informationalistic edupodloads. I thought I’d list a few of my favourites here - read on for the link-love…

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Top Tips

One of the latest impressive innovations to come out of Google is that they have speech recognition software good enough to automatically index audio and video streams and make the spoken word searchable. Due to the impending presidential election, the project is currently focussed on political speeches, and makes it easy for you to compare what different politicians have said about any particular issue. You can find it here: http://labs.google.com/gaudi

Anj

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Data Mining

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Procrastination