Since this is a bit of a technical post, I thought I’d pop this video in. It’s broadly related, but it also has the advantage of giving the non-techies something to enjoy in amongst all the jargon. It’s also a contemporary celebration of the classic British tradition of the ‘pun skit’. Four Candles 2.0, if [...]
Categories: Technology
Tagged: iPhone
I first met Nancy Baym on Twitter, and now we’re also friends on Facebook. We’ve talked via email about a couple of things as well. She’s a professor in the US and we have some mutual friends in common, many of whom one or both of us have never actually met in person. She’s written [...]
Categories: culture,Education,Technology,University
Tagged: Academic, Internet, Interview, Music, Social media
Photo of Jake ‘Andy Warhol’d’ on the iPad I thought this would be a shorter blog post than usual. I wrote it on an iPad – and while that’s not as arduous as some people would have you think (“It needs a real keyboard!”) it’s a slower process than writing it on the laptop would [...]
Categories: Technology
Tagged: iPad
Photo by smlions12 I’m not very good at Facebook. I know some people who are masters of it, and it pretty much dominates their web experience. Whereas, I’m in a constant struggle to make it useful, friendly and interesting all at the same time. I’m actually a little bit frightened of it. But I want [...]
Categories: Technology
Tagged: Facebook
Photo by estoril This started out as a discussion on Twitter, but it got a bit out of hand and I had lots of questions thrown my way as a result, so I thought I’d capture and clarify it all in a quick blog post. I kicked it all off by saying this: And then [...]
Categories: Technology
Photo by mkorchia In a new Wired magazine article called The Web Is Dead, Long Live The Internet, Editor in chief Chris Anderson (author of ‘The Long Tail‘ and ‘Free‘) declares the demise of the web browser in favour of dedicated apps on devices such as iPads and iPhones (no mention of Android handsets, then). [...]
Categories: Technology
Tagged: Apps, electricity, hairdryer, Internet, iPad, iPhone, toaster
I’ve been having conversations over the past 24 hours about the ‘value’ of social media. The social transparency and personal profile that this kind of medium affords is one of those things that crops up from time to time in articles such as this one in Techcrunch and this one in Music Think Tank – [...]
Categories: culture,Family,Music,Technology
From Brass Bands to Colombian Hip Hop. This year’s national Un-Convention event promises to be the biggest and best yet. Taking influence from Un-Convention events around the world and inviting some of the most inspirational and influential figures from the global grassroots music scene – this year will use Un-Conventional spaces – including a barge, [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Technology
Tagged: Music, Seminar, unconvention
We’ve recently moved into a new neighbourhood, and I’ve been checking out the local spots. I love the record store here (apparently there’s a better website on the way) – and our local pub is a fantastic venue for all sorts of great live gigs – the sort of international calibre stuff you wouldn’t expect [...]
Categories: culture,Technology
A cuppa with the artist formerly known as Spoons Three internet aeons ago, I used to do a podcast with James Debenham. It was called ‘Dubber and Spoons Take The Bus’, and it was just a recording of the inane conversations James and I had on the way home from work. No script, no rehearsal, [...]
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