Category: thoughts
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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Shall We DEACTivate?
The Digital Economy Act is now a reality and is likely to remain so whoever wins the election (despite the fact the LibDems have pledged to repeal it) so rather than just moan about it on Twitter and join another Facebook group I thought it might be good to try and do something a bit…
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No More Freebie Ning
One way or another Ning has been on my mind alot lately. Starting with the ongoing spam issues that I have with the Libraries of the Future Ning site that I set up in a previous role and have rather grudgingly maintained, through to the issues Mike has had with the Bathcamp network that briefly…
