Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Statto..

Stuart over at OSS Watch recently wrote a post about how OSS Watch measure ‘buzz’ around there activities. This sent me off on a little bit of a tangent as I started to give a little thought to the tools we use at JISC to monitor the impact of our website (and when I say…

September 13, 2007
Lack of remote control..

As I was sitting in the foyer of the very impressive Said Business school last Wednesday after giving my very quick, and unfortunately quite poor, presentation to the JISC Services Communications Channels workshop (still I was on first and would have made everyone else look good!) I was left wondering two things 1) how the…

September 10, 2007
The Persona Touch

I buy into the concept of usability..I mean who doesn’t these days to some extent. I budget for usability work on every web project I work on – big and small…for years I was a devout follower in the Cult of Jakob (though I think he has lost touch with the real world these days..) …

August 30, 2007
JISC and the ‘amplified conference’

In September I am heading to Lisbon [nice!] to give a talk to the TERENA-PR group about the ideas behind the ‘amplified conference’. This idea has been getting some traction recently in and around JISC (though it has been a mainstay of the growing number of Web 2.0 related events for a couple of years)…

August 28, 2007
Everything is (not quite) miscellaneous

David Weinbergers new book definitely brings out my inner librarian but while I generally have enjoyed it [despite its massively geeky nature] I’m not sure I 100% agree with some of its major points [plus it good be a bit shorter – it kind of runs out of steam] While I do agree that tagging…

August 27, 2007