Digital by Default

Digital by Default

[JISC] Weeknote 20/33

Week off tastic 🙂 Had an interview (we’ll see how that worked out soon hopefully), met up with various people about all manner of geeky things (including finally meeting up with Chris from Abstraktion and Sam from the Pervasive Media studio as well as catching up with some of the Delib mob..), attended the Clay…

July 4, 2010
Evolution of an idea: From JISC Answers to Your Freedom

So yesterday the ‘Your Freedom‘ site launched by Nick Clegg got ALOT of attention and is likely to continue to keep the guys at Delib busy coping with the insane levels of traffic its been getting for some time. Whether you agree with the aim of the project or not it is a big step…

July 2, 2010
Clay Shirky at the Watershed #foishirky

Yesterday I attended a talk given by Clay Shirky as a part of the brilliant Bristol Festival of ideas at the Watershed cinema. I’m not sure what I was expecting but my expectations weren’t that high – I enjoyed ‘Here Comes Everybody’ but it wasn’t exactly earth-shattering to anyone who had spent alot of time…

July 1, 2010
Conference Summer Season..2010

July is shaping up to be pretty busy event wise so I thought I’d just jot down where I’m going to be and why. The first couple of things are actually the 30th June – potentially it could be three events in one day. To kick off it is the launch of bOpen – a…

June 27, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 19/33

The times they are a changing. Another week scattered with bad news from the powers that be (more cuts to higher ed and a very unclear ban on the hiring of consultants..) I also had a strange meeting Monday where (for the time being at least) I seem to have been stripped of pretty much…

June 26, 2010