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 ...
December catch-up: creativity applied conference (RSA, ICC, Creative Scotland, NESTA and others)
In the short lull between teaching and marking, when I should be working directly on my PhD research, I have a chance to write up some notes from a conference I attended on 21 November 2011: Adding Value ??? Creativity Applied. Held at the Royal Col...
Photo blog: Burntisland in the November sun
Burntisland's looking great today, with a cooling breeze off the Forth. Misty too, Forth Bridges drifting in and out of sight. But where for lunch? EDIT: We went to 'Potter About' for lunch. Great big portions, decent prices and a busy/friendly at...
Testing if Posterous will autopost to Google+
This is a picture of the picture above my bed, but more importantly I've added a Google Buzz autopost to my Posterous-based website. What with Google having put Buzz to sleep I'm reasonably confident the autopost will go to G+ instead, but there's...
DREaM workshop one. (Part two of five events.)
I???m getting used to the idea that piecing together a PhD is likely to involve periods of thinking about all sections at once. Reading some expansive texts one day, which provide a theoretical context for ones ideas, is then followed by a day???s dis...
Software review: Scrivener and NVivo
As my PhD research slowly gets into gear this quick post reflects some current joy with Scrivener and potential future fun with NVivo. (The latter is largely notes to myself and might not make for great reading.)ScrivenerThere's a ten minute intro...
Lecturer as shoemaker.
As today's guest lecturer from the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab is unable to join TSM10107 and me (due to a dental emergency not conducive with public speaking) I'm using the blog to plan, set out and run an alternative session. Why shoemake...
#SMWglasgow Social media, research, academia and industry
A week ago, while Edinburgh was enjoying one of its local holidays, I took the express train to Glasgow ??? partly for an Apple Store pilgrimage, partly to attend Jillian Ney's (@jillney; blog here) session as part of Social Media Week. Glasgow was ...
Leaving The Shire.
With a dash between campuses on Tuesday 6 September 2011 I matriculated as an Edinburgh Napier University research student. The clock started ticking towards the first deadline on my PhD quest, a journey if you will??? as told by Dave Pritchard on t...
From The Guardian... analysis of Twitter activity during the #riots
via guardian.co.uk The Guardian have looked at some 2.5m tweets sent during the riots that swept through parts of England earlier this summer. What does this analysis open up for analysis of regular, planned events? Click the link above to catch t...