Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Disastrous Digital Economy Bill

    If I’m honest I’m a bit useless when it comes to politics and causes. There are some things that I am passionate about but they exist in a different little box in my head than it is appropriate to share on this blog. That said the disastrous Digital Economy Bill is currently being pushed through…

  • Darth Google video

    Very clever video that is just another part of the increasing backlash against Google. Privacy concerns in particular seem to create a new mini-crisis for Google every couple of weeks (Buzz was a disaster and Streetview has as many doubters as supporters). To be honest even I have had a look at some of my…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 3/33

    This week I spent some time pulling information together to update NJ about the technical side of the UKOER project and JorumOpen – this inevitably led to me reading more about it myself and jotting down new ideas. Later in the week the proposal from CETIS around new technical OER projects was given the nod…

  • Musings on Linked Data stuff

    So apparently “the idea that doing linked data is really hard is a myth” according to attendees at last weeks LinkedDataLondon event. I have to admit to wondering what they are comparing it to then as it seems to me that it is anything but easy. I am a little bit of a Linked Data…

  • 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…