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...
West Highland Way photos II
I'm still just as stoked that I walked so much of the West Highland Way - a couple of weeks' distance has not quelled my enthusiasm. Here is a selection of shots taken with Bob's camera (then compressed onto Facebook and extracted by me), conveyin...
Finland has the best festivals: Teuva's 'Mobile Sauna Festival'
via guardian.co.uk Beat this Edinburgh! A mobile sauna festival of the weird, wonderful and ingeniously creative. No need to go the hassle and the expense of filling a tiny comedy venue with sweaty punters and a tired comic: just head to beautiful...
Travelogue 10: 'northern hemisphere 12.08.02'
A cheeky post from Edinburgh - not so much a travelogue then, more a 'homelogue'? Either way I was clearly enjoying myself, although it's interesting to see how little the Edinburgh festival changes from one year to the next in some ways.
Call for papers: Conference on Social Media and Tourism October, 2011
Here's a conference I wouldn't mind attending, if I had something to present. From the blurb: ___ October 2011 Conference on Social Media and Tourism. The conference is sponsored by Virginia Tech University in cooperation with MCI University in In...
Leeds conference, with a few weeks' distance.
Leeds Met Uni hosted the Global Events Congress from 14-16 July 2010. Earlier posts here have covered much of what I found to be interesting, valuable and relevant to my own work (present and future). With a few weeks' distance however this post n...
Can Twitter wit replace live comedy? | Culture | guardian.co.uk
via guardian.co.uk I should, really, read these articles in full before posting a story and spreading the word. Time is of the essence mind, so here's an article from this year's Edinburgh Festival (9 August 2010). It's about events, festivals and...
PhD ideas: 8 August 2010
An update to my text file outlining PhD ideas. Some new ideas have been added, some sections rearranged and the potential theoretical contributions section has been expanded. This builds on the work viewed and discussed at the Leeds conference.As ...