Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Listening to The Story

    On Friday I had the distinct pleasure of taking a short break from JISC-world and attending The Story, an event organised and curated by Matt Locke from Channel 4 although this was very much a personal project rather than anything work related. This was a very different kind of event – almost a spoken word…

  • [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…