Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Big Brizzle Barcamp?

    We love a festival in Bristol – whether its a Festival of Ideas, a Harbour Festival, a Film festival, Music festival…heck we even have an Interesting Games festival and on one of my looooooong bus rides home from work recently I wondered what what a mix that love of festivals and a barcamp might look…

  • A few things I want to learn

    Some time on Friday I came across a blog post (via the power of Twitter) by @pipstar called 100 Things I Want to Learn which really got me thinking.  Its come about due to her thinking about the idea of a DIY Masters (something that Andy Gibson at School of Everything has also been writing…

  • JISC Conference 2009

    This year is going to be the 1st time I have attended a JISC Conference without having to work (3 years of near nervous breakdowns and one managing the backchannel and social web elements) so I am very much looking forward to it.  The move to Edinburgh is another big change to traditions (and certain…

  • The New Director of Digital Engagement for HMGov

    Last night a flurry of tweets brought to my intention the fact that the government is recruiting a new Director of Digital Engagement.  This new post is really quite senior and has a pretty impressive job description to say the least (and a pretty nice potential salary!).  It seems to me that most of the…

  • Scott McCloud at TED

    Scott McCloud is a bit of a hero of mine – he brings more insight to the world of comic books (and lets be clear I read comic books not ‘graphic novels’) than the medium probably deserves and having just re-read Zot for the first time in years he was a pretty decent creator himself…