Digital by Default

Digital by Default

What the hell do I do?

As the likelihood of a freelance future increases day by day I find myself in the rather difficult position of trying to articulate what it is I actually do. This is proving considerably more difficult than I had hoped and is giving me some significant cause for concern. After all if I can’t get it…

September 3, 2010
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…

August 31, 2010
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…

August 28, 2010
[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…

August 27, 2010
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…

August 22, 2010