Digital by Default

Digital by Default

A last QuickPint for the road..

A few months ago when I first left JISC/HEFCE I wrote here about my ideas for QuickPint a real ale/pub focused website that I was planning on trying to set up – as much as a shop window to demonstrate what could be achieved outside of the geekier end of the web (as well as…

August 29, 2008
Social Innovation Camp – the sequel!

One of the events I was very sorry to miss earlier this year was the Social Innovation Camp – but as it was in London at just about the time I packed in JISC/HEFCE I wasn’t really in a position to head down to London no matter how interested I was (plus I have my…

August 22, 2008
The education 2.0 debate hits Techcrunch!

..well Techcrunch UK – but still its nice to see education get some coverage outside of the usual suspects. The article kicked off an interesting debate in the comments which I contributed a couple of small points to and enjoyed reading the many intelligent comments (while people were not always agreeing it all remained very…

August 21, 2008
Learn 2.0 start-ups

Since I started at Beanbag I’ve been taking more of an interest in the other start-ups in the whole ‘learn 2.0’ space (yea I know – another effing 2.0 but I can’t think of another way to describe it – sorry!). Anyway I thought I would just do a quick post about the sites I…

August 10, 2008
SXSW pimpin’

No this isn’t some kind of Iceberg Slim homage but rather a quick post to encourage anyone who has a couple of free minutes to go to the SXSW 2009 website, sign up and vote for the two sessions that Bristols own Mel Kirk has submitted. This is a purely selfish act on my part…

August 8, 2008