Category Archives: Mashups

Feeding WordPress with EPrints: A Social Repo?

By Joss Winn | Published: February 2, 2010
I’ve just knocked up a ‘Social Repo‘ site and would be keen to get some feedback on the general idea. It’s a WordPress site in microblog mode driven by feeds from our repo via the FeedWordPress plugin. Just an experiment in automating something similar to our Post2Blog plugin. As a way of making EPrints content more ’social’, [...]
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Creating a PDF or eBook from an RSS feed

By Joss Winn | Published: January 4, 2010
This morning, I found myself on Baseline Scenario, a well-known site which discusses the economic crisis. I noticed that the authors of the site had laboured over producing a PDF version for each month of their archive, by copying and pasting to Word and producing a PDF. There’s a nicer way of doing this, I think. [...]
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Open Education: Talis Incubator Proposal

By Joss Winn | Published: October 4, 2009
Back in May, I woke up with an idea in my head which, in a slightly modified form, I’d now like to try and find funding for.1 The idea is based on work we’re doing on our JISCPress project, which itself is based on work Tony and I have been doing with WriteToReply since February. [...]
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Ten reasons why you should pay attention to the geeks because actually they have something quite important to say which us non-geeky people should be listening to

By Joss Winn | Published: August 1, 2009
Re-broadcasting Mike Ellis’ recent presentation… Don't Think Websites, think data View more documents from Mike Ellis.
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