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...
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...