London 2012 Olympic photos: inside the park (2/3)
A few more photos from the Olympic Park, taken Wednesday 1 August. Featuring... sponsor logos, BBC broadcast centre and waterfall bridge. (CC licence.)
London 2012 Olympic photos: inside the park (1/3)
These photos, taken by me, are from Wednesday 1 August ??? some from the aquatic centre, around the park, down at 'Park Live' to watch Bradley Wiggins's gold medal ride and a few of the wild flowers that line the waterways. (Published here under CC.)
London 2012 Olympic photos: pre-Games
The Olympics came to Scotland and if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Here are some images from Hampden (Spain 0 ??? 1 Japan) and then Edinburgh's live site on the day of the opening ceremony. All photos taken by me and you'e welcome to use them under t...
London 2012 Olympic Twitter archive
Over the course of the London 2012 Olympic Games I put together a Storify of tweets relating to the events and the debates and the media stories that people were linking too. It wasn't systematic process, there'll be lots that slipped through the ...
#citizenrelay Citizen Relay is just the start
This is a short post with a big link: www.citizenrelay.net Maybe I'll add to the post in the coming days, but for now I'm just glad to have been part of this project to trace the London 2012 Olympic Torch as it travelled around Scotland. I spent W...
Desert Island Kitchen
Last night I spent a couple of hours in the kitchen with my friend Richard playing at Desert Island Discs, the popular BBC Radio 4 show currently hosted by Kirsty Young. I put together a list of eight tracks on an iTunes playlist, plugged an iPod ...
#enconf Using Storify to tell the story of an academic conference
Edinburgh Napier University, my employer, hosts an annual conference for academic and professional services staff ??? an opportunity to get people together, focus on chosen themes and discuss ways of integrating them into our teaching and learning. ...
#futr Day 2: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
Day two of FutureEverything dawned after the long round trip to Preston where I was staying. I???ve written up the first day, over the course of about 1,500 words here. As for day two you can read the organisers??? own thoughts here. But to the bu...
#futr Day 1: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
Top image: 'Deirdre_BlueOrange_Futr' / flickr.com/photos/stuartchilds/6998237316 [This is the FutureEverything logo.]Bottom image: @jennifermjones discusses London 2012 as a media spectacle [Taken by me.]
#enubs12 Day 2: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Conference 2012
Day one of the Business School conference is covered here. This second post focuses on the day???s keynote from Dr Farida Vis (@flygirltwo), who took a very early train up from Manchester to be with us. I???d never met Farida before, but have followed...