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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.
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Bringing Bettr Back
So I’ve been thinking about trying to do another event focused on the ideas of education and learning focused start-ups and just generally the way the web is effecting education. Having recently read DIY-U and met some of the people referenced in it as well as revisiting some of the posts about the Hacking Education…
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[JISC] Weeknote 25/33
Been a pretty quiet week. After the last couple of event filled weeks August tends to signal a bit of a slow down at JISC mainly because so many people take massive chunks of it off as leave! That isn’t to say there isn’t plenty to do still but the buzz around the place certainly…
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Everything starts with an E(pub)
Once you get caught up with an idea it sometimes seems like that is all anyone is writing about on the web! This week it has seemed like every link I followed led to more really interesting discussions about eBooks, ePub and digital publishing in general. I also caved in and purchased one of the…
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Riding the [JISC] Elevator
Back in the early days of my return to JISC I attended a meeting where one of my colleagues Andy pitched an idea about creating a new kind of mechanism for what seems to have become known as ‘micro-funding’ in-house. The idea was called the JISC Elevator. A move away from the very formal proposals…
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