Author: Matt Jukes

  • JISC Conference 2009

    This year is going to be the 1st time I have attended a JISC Conference without having to work (3 years of near nervous breakdowns and one managing the backchannel and social web elements) so I am very much looking forward to it.  The move to Edinburgh is another big change to traditions (and certain…

  • The New Director of Digital Engagement for HMGov

    Last night a flurry of tweets brought to my intention the fact that the government is recruiting a new Director of Digital Engagement.  This new post is really quite senior and has a pretty impressive job description to say the least (and a pretty nice potential salary!).  It seems to me that most of the…

  • Scott McCloud at TED

    Scott McCloud is a bit of a hero of mine – he brings more insight to the world of comic books (and lets be clear I read comic books not ‘graphic novels’) than the medium probably deserves and having just re-read Zot for the first time in years he was a pretty decent creator himself…

  • Fun at Bristwestival

    So I’ve now had a day or two to recover from Bristwestival and I have to say that I think it was a great success and alot of fun.  As hoped I got to meet a few Twitter types face-to-face for the first time, enjoyed a number of pints of Bitburger (following on from several…

  • How deep is your Twitter love..

    Well as of 12.50 on the 12th all is well again and Sweet Tweet is ticking along quite happily. As of this morning 12/02/2009 – something has gone pearshaped with the DNS for Sweet Tweet and it has been replaced by domain squatters by the looks of it – will update when Stef or Theo…