Comments for Matt Durant

Comment on Contact by Gary Cross

Gary Cross — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:31:44 +0000

I was browsing through my bookmarks, and I come across your site saved at the top of my ever growing list a favorites. I got to say chappie, your web skills have come along a long way, I am certainly impressed.

I was working on some silverlight (aka Flash) a little while back. Created demo website for mother displaying photo albums ect. I was able to create a book with folding pages so you can view photos as would be in an album.

Take Care
G

Comment on JISC Digital Media – Surgery by Zak Mensah

Zak Mensah — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:33:11 +0000

Hello Matthew,

Glad to hear that you find the service of value and thank you for taking the time to write about us. Should you or anybody reading this like us to cover specific topics please do let us know.

All the best

Zak

Comment on Firefox – ‘Add a keyword for this search’ by Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:30:26 +0000

That is brilliant – and so much more versatile (I assume) than Google Chrome’s “search in the address bar” which presumably will only search Google… The big G seems more and more like a one-sided affair…

Comment on My Kidney Donation by Nancy Murrell

Nancy Murrell — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:55:42 +0000

Congrats! I just donated, too. I think the hospital food was the worst of it, and yes, the toilet and I have grown quite close. Activia yogurt, if they have it there, is also your friend. Good job, sir. Your family must be so proud and grateful.

Comment on My Kidney Donation by Chaya Lipschutz

Chaya Lipschutz — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:13:53 +0000

Dear Matt,

Hi, congrats! I too had donated a kidney – to a stranger and have a project to help others who are in need of a kidney. My brother donated a kidney as well – to someone on my list of people in need of a kidney. So, I make kidney matches, but it’s not easy to get people to donate a kidney. I don’t get paid or charge a fee.

Matt – so much more difficult to donate a kidney in England, to a stranger. And if it’s a friend, you need to prove it. Why don’t they let total stranger donate kidneys like in the good old USA??? So many more lives can be saved in England if they would allow this.

I know of a 40 year old man with kids in the UK in England. He needs a kidney and if he doesn’t have family members, he should be able to get a kidney from a stranger. Why not? There was an article written about him in a UK newspaper – I don’t know if anything will come out of it, but if a stranger responds, why not?

Anyhow – G-d bless you for what you did!

All the best,

Chaya Lipschutz

Comment on My Kidney Donation by Quartzgryph

Quartzgryph — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:57:03 +0000

Your photos. You have another kidney in your elbow? Eew.

Comment on Kindle v’s Sony PRS-500 by Kindle Accessories

Kindle Accessories — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:08:15 +0000

I would love to write and say what a great job you did on this, as you have put a lot of work into it.

Comment on OpenAthens LA 2.0 by KrisBelucci

KrisBelucci — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:59:49 +0000

I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my site? Thank you in advance.

Comment on CILIP 2.0 by Katie Fraser

Katie Fraser — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:30:52 +0000

Hi Matt

Thanks for directing people to my blog! I guardedly agree with the points you make in this post. It was very difficult to follow the conversation – or even to have one! – on Twitter, and as a remote alternative to the conference it wasn’t really an alternative at all.

On the other hand, I don’t think any more measured approach would have captured the enthusiasm and variety of views in quite the same way as the Twitter session did. As someone who was able to devote quite a lot of attention to following the discussion (and who ‘played along’ with the slides the presenters had provided) I found the parallel Twitter ‘event’ illuminative, and enormous fun.

There’s a whole community out there that CILIP are failing to engage with, and I think the Twitter showed the potential level of enthusiasm in this community brilliantly. CILIP’s next step is to work out how to effectively engage these people (how to effectively engage me!) in a more productive way. Somewhere between its current way of doing things and a Twitter free-for-all is where that can happen.

Comment on CILIP 2.0 by Nicola McNee

Nicola McNee — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:07:15 +0000

Hi Matt
Hi Matt I’m reading your post with interest.
As a Twitter participant on the day I found the experience empowering. Twitter is all about the moment so although it was good to have all the tweets collected together that wasn’t really the point of it. I’m not sure at all what you mean by “polluting official entries”. Twitter is informal with everyone on equal terms. The whole idea I think of twittering in the background was to create a general buzz and excitement about web2.0 communication. And I hope it achieved that.