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Digital by Default

[JISC] Weeknote 16/33

Really short update this week. It has been a horribly disjointed week starting with a bank holiday and ending with me feeling pretty unwell and in-between some of the worst train journeys I have experienced. The big thing this week was a steering group meeting in York for one of our biggest national scale projects…

June 5, 2010
Ignite Bristol: The Sequel

The venue and date for the second helping of Ignite in Bristol has been announced; it is going to be at the Tobacco Factory Theatre on the 15th July. This is quite an upgrade from the original venue – almost doubling the capacity and I guess it will make it easier to sort the filming…

May 31, 2010
CC Salon NYC – Open Education

I was browsing the Creative Commons website (as one does!) and was particularly taken with the idea of the CC Salons‘ – small, local events based around themes of interest to the Creative Commons community. They seem to mainly be evening events not dissimilar to what Mike does with Bathcamp and I think that is…

May 30, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 15/33

Well that was an interesting week. I awoke Monday morning to a Twitter stream full of rumors about the imminent closure of Becta and significant worries about the future of HEFCE and by implication JISC. Lovely way to start the week. As it happened the rumors regarding Becta were correct and while it is fair…

May 29, 2010
Google Prediction API and OER Discovery?

Last week at the Google I/O event Google released all manner of geeky toys for developers to play with and the tech blogosphere is doing the usual job of picking them apart and focusing on opportunities to make a dollar (or $50million). The one that struck me as interesting was the Google Prediction API. To…

May 23, 2010