Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Learn 2.0 start-ups

    Since I started at Beanbag I’ve been taking more of an interest in the other start-ups in the whole ‘learn 2.0’ space (yea I know – another effing 2.0 but I can’t think of another way to describe it – sorry!).  Anyway I thought I would just do a quick post about the sites I…

  • SXSW pimpin’

    No this isn’t some kind of Iceberg Slim homage but rather a quick post to encourage anyone who has a couple of free minutes to go to the SXSW 2009 website, sign up and vote for the two sessions that Bristols own Mel Kirk has submitted. This is a purely selfish act on my part…

  • 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…