Digital by Default

Digital by Default

[JISC] Weeknote 7/33

Weeknote 6/33 was a no-show as I was on annual leave that week and while I could write an update on vodka, champagne and Erdinger consumption and Twestival attendance it probably is inappropriate for this format. Week 7/33 inevitably consisted of a fair bit of catching up. As I have mentioned before JISC is a…

April 4, 2010
BERG, Popular Science+ and the coming of the iPad

A few months ago BERG released a video that displayed their vision of how a magazine might work on the then mythical Apple Tablet. Called Mag+ it was very much a ‘concept’ video and I guess I wasn’t alone in thinking it had as much chance as being a reality as some of those concept…

April 2, 2010
Wordle of 1000 days of Twitter

Today is my 1000th day on Twitter officially. In reality there were probably 100 days or so at the beginning where I barely used it and couldn’t quite grasp the point. Still it feels like a landmark nonetheless so I have banged out a quick wordcloud of my tweets thanks to Tweetstats and Wordle. I…

March 31, 2010
Ada Lovelace Day: Kathy Sierra

It’s Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science, and I’ve taken the pledge to write about a female heroine of science or technology. I am lucky enough to work in an organisation that is filled with intelligent, technologically minded women. JISC and…

March 24, 2010
A ‘Data Driven’ Bathcamp

So I have volunteered (read been roped in by Mike) to curate the upcoming Bathcamp evening. For reasons I am not quite sure about given my own leanings away from the topic I decided to try and put on an evening based around the idea of a ‘Web of Data’. Thankfully my Twitter stream has…

March 23, 2010