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Wi-fi wood teaches school children about ecology
The Ambient Wood Project provides an interesting example of how wireless technology can be used in education. The wood in Sussex has been set up...
Digests now on any ROSTRA
I've now added a story digest feature to ROSTRA so that users can receive emails containing the headline and summary of most recent stories posted...
Article on spam
Very witty article at scotsman.com (found whilst looking for information on the Dynamic Earth exhibition in Edinburgh). Related Links: Lazy Guide to...
First KMi News Digest sent
After a wait of months for sufficient stories to build up, the KMi News Digest has finally been sent. The most recent story, of Enrico's...
New Professorship for KMi
KMi Director Enrico Motta was today appointed as Professor of Knowledge Technologies. Photo shows Enrico with Professors Marc Eisenstadt and Bob...
‘Comical Ali’ rediscovered
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, justly famous thanks to his numerous and somewhat comical protestations at press...
‘Comical Ali’ rediscovered
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, justly famous thanks to his numerous and somewhat comical protestations at press...
Comments added
I've now added the ability to make comments on postings. The comments are unthreaded but do record who posted them and...
GIF patent expires
On the 20th of June the patent relating to the GIF file format expired. Up until now software companies such as Adobe, have had to pay to use the...
Saddam’s son has ‘Licence To Kill’
Not just one, but two copies of Bond film 'Licence To Kill' are reported to have been found in amongst the horde of Saddam Hussein's son...
Some other blogging tools
Some of these are pretty dire! Related...
Demos says “Get with 3G, UK”
The Guardian reports Monday (link below): "Britain's passionate but paradoxical love affair with the mobile phone is laid bare this week by the...