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Three years into my job at Edinburgh Napier Uni and I've managed to work through almost fifty business cards. I'm meeting nearly 1.4 people a month it seems, although that average will come down once relatives are taken out.*Cards come in packs of...
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Bringing shiny spacesuits to the Edinburgh Fringe has surely been done before - Macbeth set on the International Space Station perhaps - but surely none has been put through its paces quite so thoroughly as James Baker's. Here are photos from the ...
Enjoying the lengthening days of south eastern Australia in the southern spring was a glorious, laid back rural experience. I spent time on two farms: each of them suffering in the drought, one of them seemingly with greater success though as the ...
On my way back to Australia following a northern summer in Edinburgh I spent a week in Bali. This was before the bombing (though only by about three weeks, and I spent in an evening in the bar which suffered most damage) so a snapshot of life on t...
As part of my drive to get as much PhD thinking and planning done before The Return of Teaching in September I had a couple of really rewarding and interesting meetings with colleagues this week. The general topic was how could I set up a PhD at E...
via techcrunch.com Follow the TechCrunch link to a relatively short piece on the uses of Ushahidi and connected technologies in crisis and disaster relief. Among the points to note are that this is from the technology-focused media, that it's writ...
A breakfast event, at 8:30am, was an earlier start than I've been used to this summer. It kicked off a varied day, although it's only 6:00pm just now and the final chapters have yet to be written. So to a quick run down... Festivals Edinburgh brea...
If the Edinburgh International Book Festival wants a way to instil a bit of danger into its programme Mark Watson can provide a template: guerilla book launches don't come any more subversive, claiming the streets for literature and prose, plot an...
I'm still just as stoked that I walked so much of the West Highland Way - a couple of weeks' distance has not quelled my enthusiasm. Here is a selection of shots taken with Bob's camera (then compressed onto Facebook and extracted by me), conveyin...
via guardian.co.uk Beat this Edinburgh! A mobile sauna festival of the weird, wonderful and ingeniously creative. No need to go the hassle and the expense of filling a tiny comedy venue with sweaty punters and a tired comic: just head to beautiful...
A cheeky post from Edinburgh - not so much a travelogue then, more a 'homelogue'? Either way I was clearly enjoying myself, although it's interesting to see how little the Edinburgh festival changes from one year to the next in some ways.
Here's a conference I wouldn't mind attending, if I had something to present. From the blurb: ___ October 2011 Conference on Social Media and Tourism. The conference is sponsored by Virginia Tech University in cooperation with MCI University in In...
Leeds Met Uni hosted the Global Events Congress from 14-16 July 2010. Earlier posts here have covered much of what I found to be interesting, valuable and relevant to my own work (present and future). With a few weeks' distance however this post n...
via guardian.co.uk I should, really, read these articles in full before posting a story and spreading the word. Time is of the essence mind, so here's an article from this year's Edinburgh Festival (9 August 2010). It's about events, festivals and...