Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • My plans at Mozilla Drumbeat Festival

    Obviously this is entirely destined to fall apart as soon as I touch down in Barca and actually start bumping into people etc but at the moment this is my best attempt to schedule my days at the Festival. I actually get to Barcelona on the Tuesday afternoon so hopefully will have time to do…

  • Late to the (ipad) party

    So some time after the hoopla has died down and seeing an iPad at a conference or on a train has become a common occurrence I have joined the owners club. I have got the ‘budget’ option (as if anything from Apple is ever budget!) There are two main reasons for this 1) it was…

  • Leaving JISC

    OK – this isn’t the ‘leaving interview’ post I promised – not yet anyway. It is written and at some point soon I will publish it but I want to revisit it a little first before letting in out into the wild. Anyway today is my last day at JISC. Actually I am writing this…

  • Trying out Ubuntu..

    A few weeks ago I reclaimed my parents old 15″ Sony Vaio from its quiet retirement in a corner of their back room and decided to try and bring it back to life using the restorative power of open source! I haven’t had much success with the various flavours of Ubuntu in the past –…

  • Mary Lou Forward [mozilladrumbeat]

    Mary Lou Forward is the Executive Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, an international organisation that has a vision of improving global education by making high quality learning materials free and open for all. Mary Lou has spent a good part of her academic career in Africa and most recently was Dean of African Studies for…