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Embedded book quotes via Google Books

September 7, 2007 – 9:49 am

Google Books now enables you to embed fragments from books scanned by the Google book scanning project on your website.

Further details are available on the Inside Google Book Search blog.

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, search | Comments (0)

Displaying data on the web

March 2, 2007 – 8:12 am

Kerrie blogged yesterday about a recent release of data from the ABS. The bit which caught my attention was:
my first thought was - what lovely statistical stuff for kids to play with in Excel. For example in a file called Schools by category, we have snapshots of numbers of schools in Government, Catholic, and Independent […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, tutorial | Comments (0)

A Teaser…

February 7, 2007 – 11:10 am

No-one should think what follows is anything but a prototype built to outline some directions we are considering for future development.

Click To Play

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, Metadata, search, syndication | Comments (1)

A custom search engine for blogs.educationau.edu.au

October 25, 2006 – 9:08 am

The blogs.educationau.edu.au site has now been going for nearly 2 months, and has been quite successful. There have been over 80 posts by 9 different authors, over 10,000 pageloads and around 40 subscribers according to FeedBurner (as well as many subscribers who subscribe to individual blogs).
This success has caused a few problems, most notably the […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, search | Comments (1)