Mark My Words
I write about things that interest me, particularly innovative applications of information technology or services in the health informatics domain.
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Bands I've Seen Live - 119 days ago
Being quite organised, I have kept a record of every band I’ve seen live in Facebook using Extended Info . But I thought it would be pretty cool to have these grouped by year and concert. It’s hard to believe that my very first concert, Rammstein... Topics: bands, festival, live, music

"[The] difference between Web 1.0/2.0 search is one is indexed by machines & pulled by humans,..." - 124 days ago
““[The] difference between Web 1.0/2.0 search is one is indexed by machines & pulled by humans, the other is contributed by humans, indexed by machines and then pushed to humans. In the Semantic Web data’ll be learned by machines and pushed to... Topics: definition, search, semantic web, web 1.0, web 2.0

Affordance vs. Value vs. Values vs. Utility - 129 days ago
Another interesting little conversation with @amcunningham on what I meant when I said technology has no inherent value. I hope this clarifies, at least a little. For this I give you a low-technology example to illustrate the four concepts. Imagine I... Topics: affordance, definition, utility, value, values

What Is Innovation? - 129 days ago
Firstly, I’d like to thank @troublebrother , @Sue_Todd , @richardjkeys , @amcunningham (great link to the social construction of technology ) already for their comments. I started here : “When will they realise the iPhone is a technology not an... Topics: discussion, innovation, query, question

The Day I Went Exploring - 232 days ago
Although I endeavoured to get this out last week, when it was fresh in my head, I have now had a little more time to sit down and get this post out. I was initially thinking about starting this story from the beginning, but instead thought that starting.. Topics: adventure, hills, outside, photos, trip, uk, yorkshire




