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...
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...