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  • [ORGCon] James Boyle: The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain

    I have raved on about this talk a couple of times already on this blog – it is a full hour but more than worth taking the time. Have re-watched it I stand by my opinion that it is the best plenary talk I have attended.

  • A ‘Data Driven’ Bathcamp

    So I have volunteered (read been roped in by Mike) to curate the upcoming Bathcamp evening. For reasons I am not quite sure about given my own leanings away from the topic I decided to try and put on an evening based around the idea of a ‘Web of Data’. Thankfully my Twitter stream has…

  • MJ Phone Home

    Last week my Crackberry shuffled off this mortal coil after hanging on in deep intensive care for a couple of weeks. This was a sad day. Not because it left me phoneless – it was actually pretty simple to dig up another handset – even if it was a 5 year old Nokia – but…

  • Ignite comes to Bristol

    This week it was announced that there was going to be an Ignite event in Bristol during March as part of the Global Ignite week. For those of you who don’t know (and shame on you if that is the case) Ignite is ..a style of presentation where participants are given five minutes to speak…

  • Another D’oh Moment

    So after only a little under 3 months at Becta I have resigned and rather luckily found myself in a postion to head straight back to JISC. Alot of issues led to this decision and I won’t go into them in any depth but suffice to say I wasn’t comfortable with some aspects of the…