Digital by Default

Digital by Default

[JISC] Weeknote 4/33

This week seems to have flown by but like they say “time flies when you are having fun..” and for the most part this week was really good – which is something of a surprise as it didn’t look like it would be on paper. A good chunk of Monday was spent contributing to a…

March 12, 2010
MJ Phone Home

Last week my Crackberry shuffled off this mortal coil after hanging on in deep intensive care for a couple of weeks. This was a sad day. Not because it left me phoneless – it was actually pretty simple to dig up another handset – even if it was a 5 year old Nokia – but…

March 8, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 3/33

This week I spent some time pulling information together to update NJ about the technical side of the UKOER project and JorumOpen – this inevitably led to me reading more about it myself and jotting down new ideas. Later in the week the proposal from CETIS around new technical OER projects was given the nod…

March 6, 2010
Being Ignited..

Yesterday evening I was lucky enough to attend the inaugral Ignite Bristol at the Polish Club in Clifton. It was a brilliant event and I’d like to thank the organisers for putting together such a great evening in such a fun, unique venue. It was a terrifyingly professional set-up with proper cameras and lighting not…

March 5, 2010
Musings on Linked Data stuff

So apparently “the idea that doing linked data is really hard is a myth” according to attendees at last weeks LinkedDataLondon event. I have to admit to wondering what they are comparing it to then as it seems to me that it is anything but easy. I am a little bit of a Linked Data…

March 1, 2010