Click for curtain-up: technology and theatre | Culture | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk Theatre has the best technology? A quick post from a Guardian article looking at technology-in-theatre, as fostered by a 'Pervasive Media Studio' project in Bristol. The analogy is with the use of surround sound in the movies: i...
St Andrew's Day round up of links and events: part 3.
By the titles of some of today's posts you'd have thought there were some events to talk about, which haven't made much of an appearance so far. Now that I'm nearly blogged out for the day, here are some comments:- I attended an RSA event at the S...
Internet Week Europe - November 2010
via internetweekeurope.com London has the best festivals, yes? Internet Week Europe is born of a similar event in New York, attracting some fantastic contributors, audiences and media coverage. Of course, in my world there's every chance that thes...
St Andrew's Day round up of links and events: part 2.
Following hot on the heels of a long post wrapping up disparate thoughts collated over a few weeks, this shorter post is little more than an annotated reading list: a to do list of thoughts and contributions. ___ Greg Richards Building on his work...
St Andrew's Day round up of links and events: part 1.
This is my forking moment for the month. A couple of weeks' work on other projects, university business and time spent choosing a dining table has left me with a myriad different ideas, links, articles and events to try and rationalise... they are...
PhD ideas: 25 November 2010
It's a while since I posted an updated 'ideas' file, but there have been distractions since August. There may not even be anything particularly new here, although the file itself remains an important repository for ideas, notes, references and sup...
Silence reigned in EH14.
Alas and alack: snow scuppered my first chance to present my research ideas yesterday. It's St Andrew's Day and the UK is going into stasis, one county at a time. The campus was closed, the classroom's empty, but thankfully the email held up and t...
Please come to my seminar! Monday 29 November.
I've a week to put together an informal seminar about my PhD ideas, building on the more formal written proposal which is also being compiled in the coming days. The first step has been to prepare the following abstract for the seminar - please le...
Events in the connected city (part three): add ingredients and mix.
Sometimes, when I'm delivering a lecture, I start a sentence knowing that I've no idea how I'll finish it. I'd love to say this is game my tricksy mind plays with my weary intellect, though I suspect the truth is somewhat less constructive: a comp...
The RSA: membership organisations; Big Society; ...events?
With the podcast still playing, I want to note this RSA event: The Big Society: Challenges and opportunities for membership organisations. (I wasn't expecting to tag anything with 'Big Society', but as the term gains currency and becomes more clea...