Digital by Default

Category: play

  • Being Ignited..

    Yesterday evening I was lucky enough to attend the inaugral Ignite Bristol at the Polish Club in Clifton. It was a brilliant event and I’d like to thank the organisers for putting together such a great evening in such a fun, unique venue. It was a terrifyingly professional set-up with proper cameras and lighting not…

  • BeerSpotr – social drinking for anti-social people

    At some point last week I spotted a tweet that looked something like @beerspotr pint:butcombegold**** and wondered what was going on but I didn’t think much about it again til today when I remembered and decided to take a look again. I’m glad I did as BeerSpotr is a fun idea – it is basically…

  • 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…

  • Tumblr-tastic

    Have just been spending a bit of time playing with a couple of new(ish) features for Tumblr that make it an evening more amazing product and certainly making it a major contender with WordPress for the casual blogger. The Submit (I think this has been available for a while) and new Ask features add some…

  • Fun with Flavors.me

    There are alot of sites springing up these days that aim to be your ‘home’ on the web and aggregate your content from elsewhere into one place that you can point people at. The Google Profiles do something similar but are, lets be honest, pug ugly even by Google standards and I also looked at…