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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…
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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure
“My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.” Ashleigh Brilliant This quote kind of sums up how I’ve been feeling about the web recently. Much as I love all ths stuff I’m involved in around the edges of the social web I just don’t know how much real impact it has on…
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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…
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(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…
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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…