Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Closing the door on open education..

    ..for a while anyway. Even before I returned to JISC for a year I had become extremely interested in the whole open education movement. At JISC I was lucky enough to work on the OER programme a little which meant meeting a whole army of incredibly intelligent and committed people working in the area. I…

  • Back to school(ish)

    Many years ago (1997) I was pretty competent writing HTML from scratch in Notepad. The sites were basic but I kept up with the standards and was pretty proud to have taught myself how to contribute to the web. A couple of years later I added some basic CSS knowledge to the mix and some…

  • Product Management and the public sector..

    I spent a bit of my train time this week making the most of my Kindle (which I still love – probably more than my iPad!) by dumping a 60 plus page BBC report onto it for easy reading. The report was titled The State of Product Management 2010 [PDF] and was commissioned by the…

  • Late to the (ipad) party

    So some time after the hoopla has died down and seeing an iPad at a conference or on a train has become a common occurrence I have joined the owners club. I have got the ‘budget’ option (as if anything from Apple is ever budget!) There are two main reasons for this 1) it was…

  • Pete Ferne

    [UPDATE: Maisie, Pete’s daughter, has set up a site in his memory http://peteferne.org/ ] Pete Ferne (@petef) passed away today. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the summer after some initial symptoms that he seemed to recover from and his condition quickly deteriorated once it was identified. I worked with Pete at Jiva…