Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Ideas and Inspirations (1st of Many!)

    As you can imagine I’m quite preoccupied with thinking about the future at the moment – in fact it is safe to say that any ‘cognitive surplus‘ I have is being pretty much used up in my efforts to find a new position as soon as possible in order to calm my jittery nerves! One…

  • Moving beyond meeting mania

    I just read an article about Justin Kan of Justin.tv – the rather annoying guy who used to live stream his life 24/7 a couple of years ago. It turned out to be a pretty successful publicity stunt and now Justin.tv is scrapping it out in the same space as uStream and Livestream. The article…

  • What Next?

    So I didn’t succeed in staying on at JISC another year – I’m pretty unhappy about it but have decided not to rant any further (unless you see me in a pub..) and am instead now giving some thought as to what am I going to do next. I do have a couple of months…

  • We’ll Meet Again (and Again, and Again..)

    One way or another I attend an awful lot of meetings. More than most people probably but less some some unlucky souls. Some are interesting, some are simply dull and others are damn right painful. Very few are fun. In my opinion even less are genuinely useful. I used to see them as a necessary…

  • Schooloscope from BERG

    I’ve written on this blog before about BERG; they were the inspiration for my weeknotes and I was massively impressed with the Popular Science/MagPlus stuff they did for the iPad but actually the reason I initially subscribed to their blog was a 4iP funded project until recently codenamed Ashdown. Schooloscope (Ashdown) launched today (I think)…