Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Shall We DEACTivate?

The Digital Economy Act is now a reality and is likely to remain so whoever wins the election (despite the fact the LibDems have pledged to repeal it) so rather than just moan about it on Twitter and join another Facebook group I thought it might be good to try and do something a bit…

April 25, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 10/33

Monday was spent at the Repositories and the Open Web event in London. Phil has written up a report from the day so I won’t duplicate that but it was an interesting day – particularly as it demonstrated that within the Learning/OER materials part of our community the focus was much more on solving the…

April 24, 2010
Jiva Gang Launch Tutorhub Beta

Last night I attended the beta launch of Tutorhub.com from my old (well not so old) colleagues at Jiva Technology at the Watershed. In some ways it was a bit of a strange experience for me – I was extremely involved in the early thinking and planning around the product, though back then it was…

April 22, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 9/33

It is Sunday afternoon and the sun is actually shining for a change so I’ll have to make this update a short one. Monday and Tuesday were dominated by the JISC Conference which I have already written about. Just to reiterate I thought it was great and probably the best of the seven I have…

April 18, 2010
No More Freebie Ning

One way or another Ning has been on my mind alot lately. Starting with the ongoing spam issues that I have with the Libraries of the Future Ning site that I set up in a previous role and have rather grudgingly maintained, through to the issues Mike has had with the Bathcamp network that briefly…

April 16, 2010