Radio Magnetic: at the Edinburgh Fringe and all over the interwebs.
Just time before bed to write up my thoughts on a recent seminar, held during the Edinburgh Fringe and hosted by Inner Ear (the folks behind Radio Magnetic). Titled 'Digital Audience Development' it looked at 'how to select and sequence online ser...
Hail fellow.
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...
Star Man: now with moving pictures.
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Star Man: climbing to space during Fringe 2010.
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 ...
Travelogue 12: 'sheeps that pass in the night 02.11.02'
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 ...
Travelogue 11: 'green 01.10.02'
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...
In house catering.
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...
Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief
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 'mixed' day at the Edinburgh festival.
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...
Mark Watson's roaming Edinburgh book launch for 'Eleven' #watsonbooklaunch
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...