Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Foursquare Thinking

    While Playful turned out to be less my scene than I’d hoped I did enjoy the talks I stayed around for. The session before lunch was a bit of a jokey set of talks where people tried to get some agreement on the etiquette for using Foursquare. Four people made proposals to the audience and…

  • The Jukesie job journey..Chapter XXIII

    OK so 23 jobs might be an exaggeration but that is what it feels like! So you might have picked up a certain tone from this blog in recent weeks that might be identified as mild panic 🙂 While a part of me has always been excited by the idea of freelance life and spending…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 30/33

    Another week off so another short update. Be Bettr has really come together now – I’ve already got a great bunch of speakers and am actually going to confirm two more next week. It will be a packed day and it is nicely balanced in theory as well. The chance of sponsorship has increased as…

  • Considering ContactZilla

    I got my invite to ContactZilla a little while ago now but for one reason or another haven’t really had time to give it a proper once over until now. It is worth admitting upfront that I currently don’t really use any kind of system to manage my contacts – I have details in LinkedIn…

  • The Kindle has landed..

    On July 31st I gave in and pre-ordered one of the ‘latest generation’ Kindles (apparently it is NOT the Kindle 3). Until then a combination of the price, lack of (easy) support for PDFs plus a slight uneasy feeling about it not allowing ePub had put me off but the new look and especially the…