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Part three of the DREaM sequence took place in the British Library???s conference facilities on Monday 30 January ??? full details are here, presentation videos are here (for community members). This was the half way mark in a series of events that I???...
Having been socialised into a society that worships the ???0??? I???m using a small anniversary to ponder social music. Just as we celebrated the arrival of the year 2000 with fireworks (and fears that it would kill our computers and bring planes out of...
Part two of my New Zealand tales, back on schedule as this was originally sent eight years ago today. Some poetic meanderings about the brilliant wonderfulness of the flora, geology and water cycle are followed by a quick summary of Christmas when...
I've been using this blog to post some travelogue emails I wrote to friends and families when I was a young, carefree global vagrant. Blogs had barely entered my vocabulary at this point, so I recklessly invaded the inboxes of my nearest and deare...
The blog is an established social media tool, emerging in the late 1990s as a way to publish online. A wide variety of organisations have developed ways to create a blog: mostly free, generally making the process easier, with greater flexible and ...
via guardian.co.uk For those who like to see a town or city animated through the careful application of a planned event or two here are a few new year's eve celebrations to keep an eye on. Some have been handed down from one generation to the next...
I???ve been soaking up quite a bit of social network literature recently as it is becoming the central theme in my PhD planning. As a focus for analysis it can often be found sharing space with discussions on social capital, yet the events literatur...
Edinburgh Napier welcomed Leeds Metropolitan???s Prof Rhodri Thomas for a handful of sessions last week. Rhodri sits within the UK Centre for Events Management at Leeds Met, hosts of 2010???s Global Congress that I wrote about in these here posts.With...
via guardian.co.uk The Guardian today released the first findings of its investigation into the riots which swept through some cities in England during the summer of 2011. More is to come, as they drill down into the data with a team of academics ...
In the short lull between teaching and marking, when I should be working directly on my PhD research, I have a chance to write up some notes from a conference I attended on 21 November 2011: Adding Value ??? Creativity Applied. Held at the Royal Col...
Burntisland's looking great today, with a cooling breeze off the Forth. Misty too, Forth Bridges drifting in and out of sight. But where for lunch? EDIT: We went to 'Potter About' for lunch. Great big portions, decent prices and a busy/friendly at...
This is a picture of the picture above my bed, but more importantly I've added a Google Buzz autopost to my Posterous-based website. What with Google having put Buzz to sleep I'm reasonably confident the autopost will go to G+ instead, but there's...
I???m getting used to the idea that piecing together a PhD is likely to involve periods of thinking about all sections at once. Reading some expansive texts one day, which provide a theoretical context for ones ideas, is then followed by a day???s dis...
As my PhD research slowly gets into gear this quick post reflects some current joy with Scrivener and potential future fun with NVivo. (The latter is largely notes to myself and might not make for great reading.)ScrivenerThere's a ten minute intro...
As today's guest lecturer from the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab is unable to join TSM10107 and me (due to a dental emergency not conducive with public speaking) I'm using the blog to plan, set out and run an alternative session. Why shoemake...