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Lanyrd Launches
Lanyrd is a new ‘social conference directory’ that was released out into the wild this morning and has already been a big hit on Twitter – which to be fair is very much the target market for the site. Lanyrd first and foremost is an events calendar that offers one place to find out what…
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Mozilla Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival
So the Drumbeat Festival opened for booking this week. I have booked my flights to Barcelona and I think I have decided on a hostel/hotel – the Gat Xino – apparently it is in a slightly sketchy area but it doesn’t sound too bad (but what the hell do I know – I’ve never been…
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[JISC] Weeknote 28/33
Another week flies by. The closer it gets to the end of my time at JISC the faster things seem to be moving. The week was pretty good though – I spent alot of time in Balsamiq trying to find a way to make our team area on the JISC website a bit more useful…
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Books vs eBooks in Newsweek
I really like this infographic via Newsweek – no idea if all the facts are correct I’ll admit but I totally agree with the sentiment. I have a real interest in the idea of eBooks and digital publishing in general (let us be honest – my main interest is digital comics!) and in a few…
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Explaining Eventstreams
As I have mentioned a couple of times recently Stefan and I have embarked on a pretty ambitious side project based on a number of ideas I have had over the last couple of years about using the web to support events and conferences. As you would expect the roles have split pretty cleanly down…