Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • [JISC] Weeknote 1/33

    Inspired by BERG and the growing number of contributor to weeknotes.com I have decided to do my own weeknotes for the remainder of my time at JISC. In case you are wondering the numbering system is based on what I am pretty sure are the amount of weeks I have left at JISC this time…

  • CMS Catchup..

    The last couple of weeks have seen a couple of interesting posts around the topic of CMSs that I just wanted to point to and briefly comment on. These posts are well worth reading if you haven’t already. Both Steph and Simon wrote about the idea of using multiple instances of WordPress to build a…

  • Aardvark Joins the Google Zoo..

    If Techcrunch is to be believed, and as it is one of the rare occasions these days that Arrington himself contributes I tend to believe, then Aardvark has been acquired by Google for around $50 million. I was an early beta tester of Aardvark and though I have at times found the service frustrating I…

  • End of EventVue

    Over the weekend I read about the end of EventVue first on the CrowdVine blog, then the very honest post-mortem from EventVue themselves and then finally Techcrunch. In fact as is often the case they appear to have gained more publicity by closing down than they ever got when they were in business! EventVue were…

  • Ideas for Open Education Publishing

    As anyone who has read this blog can probably tell I do a fair bit of semi-aimless trawling around the web driven by vague ideas for projects I’d like someday to attack but more often than not life gets in the way so they stay ideas and slowly fade away. Some ideas though hang around…