Author: Matt Jukes

  • Mozilla Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival

    So the Drumbeat Festival opened for booking this week. I have booked my flights to Barcelona and I think I have decided on a hostel/hotel – the Gat Xino – apparently it is in a slightly sketchy area but it doesn’t sound too bad (but what the hell do I know – I’ve never been…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 28/33

    Another week flies by. The closer it gets to the end of my time at JISC the faster things seem to be moving. The week was pretty good though – I spent alot of time in Balsamiq trying to find a way to make our team area on the JISC website a bit more useful…

  • Books vs eBooks in Newsweek

    I really like this infographic via Newsweek – no idea if all the facts are correct I’ll admit but I totally agree with the sentiment. I have a real interest in the idea of eBooks and digital publishing in general (let us be honest – my main interest is digital comics!) and in a few…

  • Explaining Eventstreams

    As I have mentioned a couple of times recently Stefan and I have embarked on a pretty ambitious side project based on a number of ideas I have had over the last couple of years about using the web to support events and conferences. As you would expect the roles have split pretty cleanly down…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 27/33

    This week was mainly defined by meetings. I met up with Dan Sutch, who is Head of Development at Futurelab to talk about various things but EventEye in particular. I’ve always been a little envious of Futurelab as they seemed to run so many cool projects and EventEye is destined to be another example of…