Digital by Default

As of the 22ndOctober I will be leaving JISC for six months while I undertake a secondment for HEFCE managing the HE content on the governments Directgov portal.  It promises to an interesting and challenging assignment.  I’ll be working with members of HEFCE, DIUS, the Directgov team and HERO on the project and the aim…

The Digital Ethnograpy crew at Kansas State university who previously produced the extremely popular Machine is Us/ing Us video (that I often use in my presentations to help explain the evolution of the Web..) have put a couple of new videos out both of which are extremely interesting (and as ever skillfully produced) A Vision…

I was recently asked to  write 500 words on  the above..so I thought I would share my less than original thoughts here.. The term Web 2.0 has always been both vague and controversial and covers a great deal of ground.  Wikipedia attempts to define it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2    and the entry is particularly long and detailed…