Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure

    “My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.” Ashleigh Brilliant This quote kind of sums up how I’ve been feeling about the web recently.  Much as I love all ths stuff I’m involved in around the edges of the social web I just don’t know how much real impact it has on…

  • Crouch, touch, pause, engage!

    For those of you who aren’t glued to their TV screens during the Six Nations the title of this post is a reference to the instructions given by a referee in rugby before each and every scrum.  Why am I talking about rugby?  Well as a part of my job I find myself being introduced…

  • (e)Book ’em Danno!

    Alongside my more standard geek credentials (web, gadgets, comic books, tv, movies..yadda, yadda, yadda..) I am also a bit of a library geek from way back and all those years at JISC didn’t exactly cure me of that! So not surprisingly I’ve been following the Amazon Kindle – waiting for both news of a version…

  • just a quick visit..

     After spending much of Monday discussing future web strategy with various JISC folk and then following the blog and Twitter coverage at JIF08 at Keele I was inspired to come and check out the old blog and give it a bit of a spring clean! Thankfully Akismet has been working its magic so I was…

  • First week on the Beanbag..

    So I have survived my first week working on Beanbag Learning and it has to be said its been interesting!  I’ve never worked for a small company before (though often in small teams) and have certainly never worked with a job description or even a job title!  Still its been good so far and certainly…