Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure

    “My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.” Ashleigh Brilliant This quote kind of sums up how I’ve been feeling about the web recently.  Much as I love all ths stuff I’m involved in around the edges of the social web I just don’t know how much real impact it has on…

  • Playing with Posterous

    Posterous got Techcrunched over the weekend and it sounded pretty interesting so I had a bit of a play with it and have to admit I was impressed. Posterous is the latest entry into the micoblogging world but its real beauty is in its simplicity.  It has the easiest signup procedure I’ve ever encountered and…

  • WordCamp UK

    WordCamp UK – an unconference for users and fans of WordPress – takes place in Birmingham on the 19th and 20th of July.  It looks like it should be a good event with support from Automattic (developers of WordPress) and some pretty innovative UK users of the (more than a) blog software. After dissapointingly realising…

  • Events 2.0 roundup..

    I’ve read a few interesting bits and pieces the last week or two about events again so I thought I’d just put together a quick post covering them. Tony at Crowdvine has written an interesting post on the Crowdvine blog about adding an unconference element to an existing event which is something I think is…

  • Beanbag for Bristol..

    A spate of almost aimless Googling and browsing yesterday (it started with a purpose but sometimes I just get swept away with the journey and forget about the destination!) brought me eventually to a new education based, web 2.0ish, start-up based in Bristol – Beanbag Learning. Now this alone was enough to pique my curiousity…