Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Mobile Roadie: DIY iPhone App for your event

I wasn’t at LeWeb last week – it has never been one of those events that has appealed to me and the bad press it got last year certainly didn’t do much to change that opinion. It seems to have been more warmly received this year though and one of the real hits was Mobile…

December 13, 2009
Eventgineering: getting wifi right at events

Anyone who has read this blog for a while will know I am fascinated by the way events have been changing in the last few years. The rise of the unconference, live streaming and the backchannel are all elements I have written about before and I firmly believe we are only at the start of…

December 12, 2009
Introducing ‘New Street Hell’

My new job at JISC means I spend alot of time on trains as do many of my colleagues and one thing we all agree on is that Birmingham New Street station is some kind of outpost of hell here on earth. With this in mind, and because I am prone to do stupid things,…

December 6, 2009
The Tyranny of the Hit

I had the misfortune this week to get stuck at Birmingham New Street station for an additional hour and in desperation for something to pass the time I picked up a copy of the Economist (it was on offer and the new Wired wasn’t in!). Since I stopped working in a library (which was more…

December 6, 2009
The Future of the Bookshop in a Social Web World

I don’t think it is any secret that my one real ambition is to own my own bookshop. When work isn’t going well (which has happened pretty regularly these last couple of years) I spend an awful lot of time thinking about it. Then again when things are going pretty smoothly like at the moment…

December 1, 2009