Olympic headlines, stories and comments
Before, during and just after the Olympics I kept a rolling diary of news stories, headlines and comments on things that caught my eye. I haven't edited it down, so it's pretty raw in places. I'm publishing it here so I can refer to it for inspira...
London 2012 Olympic photos: fencing at ExCel and London Pleasure Gardens
These photos were all taken on 4 August, when I went to the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands to watch a day of fencing. You can see the efforts made to dress the venue in the standard London 2012 palette, both inside and out. I was admonished at...
London 2012 Olympic photos: inside the park (3/3)
A final set of photos from 1 August, inside the Olympic Park. Highlights include the Olympic megastore, some night time photos and the BP sponsorship presence. (CC licence.)
London 2012 Olympic photos: inside the park (2/3)
A few more photos from the Olympic Park, taken Wednesday 1 August. Featuring... sponsor logos, BBC broadcast centre and waterfall bridge. (CC licence.)
London 2012 Olympic photos: inside the park (1/3)
These photos, taken by me, are from Wednesday 1 August ??? some from the aquatic centre, around the park, down at 'Park Live' to watch Bradley Wiggins's gold medal ride and a few of the wild flowers that line the waterways. (Published here under CC.)
London 2012 Olympic photos: pre-Games
The Olympics came to Scotland and if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Here are some images from Hampden (Spain 0 ??? 1 Japan) and then Edinburgh's live site on the day of the opening ceremony. All photos taken by me and you'e welcome to use them under t...
London 2012 Olympic Twitter archive
Over the course of the London 2012 Olympic Games I put together a Storify of tweets relating to the events and the debates and the media stories that people were linking too. It wasn't systematic process, there'll be lots that slipped through the ...
#citizenrelay Citizen Relay is just the start
This is a short post with a big link: www.citizenrelay.net Maybe I'll add to the post in the coming days, but for now I'm just glad to have been part of this project to trace the London 2012 Olympic Torch as it travelled around Scotland. I spent W...
Desert Island Kitchen
Last night I spent a couple of hours in the kitchen with my friend Richard playing at Desert Island Discs, the popular BBC Radio 4 show currently hosted by Kirsty Young. I put together a list of eight tracks on an iTunes playlist, plugged an iPod ...
#enconf Using Storify to tell the story of an academic conference
Edinburgh Napier University, my employer, hosts an annual conference for academic and professional services staff ??? an opportunity to get people together, focus on chosen themes and discuss ways of integrating them into our teaching and learning. ...