Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Crouch, touch, pause, engage!

For those of you who aren’t glued to their TV screens during the Six Nations the title of this post is a reference to the instructions given by a referee in rugby before each and every scrum. Why am I talking about rugby? Well as a part of my job I find myself being introduced…

July 27, 2008
(e)Book ’em Danno!

Alongside my more standard geek credentials (web, gadgets, comic books, tv, movies..yadda, yadda, yadda..) I am also a bit of a library geek from way back and all those years at JISC didn’t exactly cure me of that! So not surprisingly I’ve been following the Amazon Kindle – waiting for both news of a version…

July 20, 2008
just a quick visit..

After spending much of Monday discussing future web strategy with various JISC folk and then following the blog and Twitter coverage at JIF08 at Keele I was inspired to come and check out the old blog and give it a bit of a spring clean! Thankfully Akismet has been working its magic so I was…

July 17, 2008
First week on the Beanbag..

So I have survived my first week working on Beanbag Learning and it has to be said its been interesting! I’ve never worked for a small company before (though often in small teams) and have certainly never worked with a job description or even a job title! Still its been good so far and certainly…

July 13, 2008
becoming a beanbagger..

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Beanbag Learning and offered my take on the site and how it could move forward (not that anyone had asked!). That started a very social media style chain reaction via comments on my blog, some Facebook messaging, a handful of emails, a few beers in the 7…

July 6, 2008