Digital Audience Development, courtesy of Inner Ear.
It was very good to see a large audience for the 2011 'Digital Audience Development' session at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Run by Inner Ear Ltd. again on Thursday 4 August, this was the second time I've seen them present ideas and case studies ...
Trip to Krakow, July 2011
Some rough and ready photos from a sunny summer holiday to Krak??w. It's nearly seven years since I was last there so there were a few changes ??? most notably a shiny new shopping centre, a museum in Oscar Schindler's factory and a vast modern art g...
Hong Kong: teaching trip, July 2011.
Higher Education in the 21st century: I'm just back from a week in Hong Kong, teaching on the MSc Marketing with International Festival and Event Management that Edinburgh Napier runs over there with HKU SPACE. It was a great week, meeting lots of...
Refinements.
It's a full 12 months, 365 days, since I turned a pile of dog-eared Post-It notes into the seed of a PhD idea, so a appropriate time to mark some recent thoughts. I hope this is going to be a brief post, responding in part to the #iDocQ conference...
#iDocQ: PhD discussion conference.
#iDocQ: Information Science Doctoral ColloquiumRobert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Sunday 19 June 2011This is the first of two posts to come out of this one day conference ??? the second will focus on the development of my own research ideas as a re...
Breda on screen.
Following up some recent posts on the Breda project, just a couple of notes on the next stage of the work. A fortnight ago I watched the students' presentations from the Netherlands, while I sat in my flat in EH11. Breda live stream all their lect...
Let me count the ways.
A late night in the offing in SW19 tonight: Andy Murray slugging it out under the roof at Wimbledon as the rain falls elsewhere. It wasn't like that last night as I strolled along the South Bank under a crimson sunset, glinting off the London Eye ...
In response to Eli Pariser and online 'filter bubbles'.
In The Observer on Sunday 12 June, Eli Pariser sets out a vision of the web which is heavily influenced by the information we submit each time we visit a site, carry out a Google search and otherwise give away a little bit more of ourselves and ou...
Participation, engagement, identity and employment.
The module system that underpins Edinburgh Napier's courses has strengths and weaknesses: it facilitates the breadth of topics our students cover and enables us to develop a range of single and joint honours programmes; but it also fragments the u...
Lessons from Holland.
When I was out in Breda I did my best to use 'the Netherlands' when talking about the country I was in. Holland is part of the Netherlands, not all of it, yet the man on the Clapham omnibus tends to use the words interchangeably. I asked for a loc...