Language Skills

The Poetry of Deep Winter by Annie Finch

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:55:32 -0800

A selection of poems to help you get through the rest of the chill, frost, and darkness: The Poetry Foundation [article] Posted using ShareThis

Transcripts of TED talks

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:07:02 -0800

If you want to find the transcript of a TED talk you can try this site: dotSUB. Based on my experience so far, the transcripts are quite accurate!

Audio Drama Talk: the community for fans of Audio Dramas

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:51:17 -0700

This site, is a good place for finding out more about what’s happening within the audio drama community. You”ll find news, events, podcasts and lots more.

Excellent video about the web

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:31:08 -0700

STI International have produced an excellent video about the WWW. Why not check it out. “With over a billion users, today’s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. [...]

Science Writing Competition

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:40:25 -0700

If you think your English is up to it, why not take part in the science writing competition organised by “Science in School”. You can either visit their main website or go straight to the information page.

the professional chatbot developers community

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:14:54 -0700

Chatbots.org is a site for professional developers of chatbots and I would say language students too. Here you can find out about which companies are employing Chatbots and what for. For instance Lucy, is employed by O2 as a customer service assistant. Talking to lucy and some of the other chatbots is a great way [...]

The Twitter Revolution

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:18:15 -0700

Twitter is an excellent place to practice your English, meet people, gather information and communicate with your existing friends. According to Tech Crunch, the number of twitter users may have exceeded 30 million. Certainly, Twitter has enough users for TIME Magazine to write about it! The article can be read on TIME’s website. There are many [...]

TED: ideas worth spreading

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:50:07 -0700

Ted.com, is the main source for “riveting talks by remarkable people!”. Here you can find talks on almost any subject. Three of my favourite talks are listed below: David Merrill demos Siftables Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen

Business Writing

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:34:45 -0700

A novel way to learn business English writing skills is to download and watch the videos published by businessenglishpod.com.

Web Designer Steve Krug (Audio MP3 + Transcript)

Thu, 29 May 2008 21:31:31 -0700

“Steve graciously allowed MarketingSherpa’s Publisher Anne Holland and Internet Director Scott McDaniel to grill him for an hour on what works (and what doesn’t.) Here’s an audio MP3 for you to listen to plus atyped transcript…”

Chatbots

Thu, 29 May 2008 06:08:35 -0700

One way to improve your writing and conversation skills is to have a conversation with a chatbot or even build your own! There are lots of chatbots on the web. I only know about a few. While studying at Sussex University I implemented a small chatbot while learning how to program. My chatbot was based [...]

Interview with Patrick H. Lauke

Thu, 29 May 2008 04:05:04 -0700

The conversation.

Introduction to Web Accessibility

Thu, 29 May 2008 03:29:25 -0700

This introduction from webaim, looks at the web from the point of view of the disabled.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:05:01 -0700

The conversation.

Style Guides: How to be a better person!

Wed, 28 May 2008 13:54:55 -0700

Here are some style guides to help you with your writing. The BBC writing style guidelines “sets out BBC-specific style points and other more general style and grammatical points for all types of printed or electronic materials, from information for external audiences to internal reports”. The Writing Stylegude from techcommunicators.com, includes a Dictionary of Plain English. The BBC [...]

Web 2.0: a very short introduction

Wed, 28 May 2008 13:46:10 -0700

A nice short introduction to Web 2.0 is contained in this white paper from mercury tide. Actually, I thought the article was quite long but it maybe possible that younger people assimilate information a lot faster than I do. According to the “Flynn Effect”, there has been a world wide rise in average IQ over [...]

Future of the Web

Wed, 28 May 2008 13:45:30 -0700

Here is a talk by Tim Berners-Lee in which he presents his vision for the Future of the Web. The slides are here. His talk is devided into four parts: Philosophical engineering The Web The Semantic Web The future Another interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, conducted by Jonathan Freedland, can be found at Web Science. In this interview he gave [...]