• event: Imagining a History for the Future of the Book (London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship)

    (Punters should come to this if in London. Ray is Good!) No form of human knowledge passes into a new medium unchanged. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core cultural and social practices that…

  • The Internet as playground and factory

    Patrica Clough interviewed at a recent conference at the New School, NY. The interview is a bit of a hot-air rant that lacks any form of evidence, but there are some good ideas buried in there. Thanks to Trebor S for the link The Internet as Playground and Factory – Patricia Clough from Trebor Scholz…

  • Google Earth climate change 3D map

    Explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth and find out about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation, ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen in December (COP15). Choose a tour from the list below and click the play button to see it unfold, or you can also view these tours…

  • Social Media vs the Dictator – Clay Shirky

    Lessons learned. The social context of technological-use is as important as the technology itself (try telling that to the practical minded Dictator!)

  • Quick Response: Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 #oxsmc09

    (Transcript below if you can’t follow my polemical prose; and sorry but the synchronisation in this clip has a mind of its own). I attended the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on Friday (18 September) at the Said Business School. The theme of the Convention was ‘assessing the evolution, impact and potential of social media’;…

  • Last day at King’s College London…

    It crept up a lot quicker than I expected but it is my last day at King’s College London tomorrow.  It was a enriching and worldly experience full of dramas and triumphs and highs and lows and new experiences. The world got a hell of a lot bigger and through King’s I discovered something special…