Travelogue 19: 'finnland, or the surrealities of travel 24.02.04'
Eight years ago today I sent the last in a series of diary emails home, missives which I've since been reposting on this blog. I hadn't intended for this to be the final one, but it took on a life of its own after it had been sent, so perhaps it w...
DREaM workshop two. (Part three of five events.)
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???...
Social music
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...
Travelogue 18: 'morning after feeling 15.01.04'
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...
Travelogue 17: 'elvis lives 08.12.03'
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...
Blogs for teaching, learning and research: a personal collection
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 ...
Top 10 places for New Year's Eve traditions (courtesy of The Guardian)
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...
Networks: readings, notes and links
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...
Rhodri Thomas and the politics of events evaluation
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...
England riots: an interactive timeline (guardian.co.uk)
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 ...