Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Working on West of Interesting

    So every since I wrote about maybe doing a Big Brizzle Barcamp I’ve been thinking about doing an event in Bristol, specifically around Stokes Croft, and what that would entail and what it might look like.  At the same time I’ve also been playing around with WordPress again and looking into self hosting and playing…

  • eventstreams idea

    This is an idea I’ve been playing with for a long time – I shelved it for a while after being so impressed with Mikes’ onetag.org but recently I’ve been thinking about it alot – especially after a conversation with Theo led to him hacking the SweetTweet code to create a pretty functional version of…

  • Introduction to backchannels and the amplified conference

    The final section of my introduction to events 2.0 was about the concept of the backchannel and beyond that the whole concept of ‘amplifying’ the conference.  Now as you can see from the links at the bottom of the page I have been thinking about some of these ideas for quite some time now and…

  • Death to Death by Powerpoint

    Introduction to Innovative Presentation Styles The second part of my presentation around events 2.0 was about Innovative Presentation Styles – its pretty thin and could do with being revisited in the future but was essentially filler on this occasion between the unconference stuff I wanted to talk about and the backchannel/amplified conference stuff thats close…

  • Fall of a HERO

    So it seems as if hero.ac.uk – a website that was once a shining beacon of higher education collaboration, and one that still generates enviable traffic and Google rankings – is being allowed to quietly wither and die.  As far as I know there has been no announcement but a quick look at the staff…