• Twitter activism

    (picture from the Independent) This story is from the Guardian, then to the Melbourne Age, then to this  blog. I am not sure if this was truly ‘twitter activism’ as the story claims; but still the nativity in which many institutions approach Web 2.0 and its potential for political mobilisation astonished me.  All technology is…

  • What the #hashtags

    Hash tags (#) are a way of aggregating posts on twitter or facebook or other social software applications.  They are driven by the community and have been used to great effect recently by the G2o protesters in London (#g20) and for the Amazon censorship of gay literature fiasco (#Amazonfail). I would imagine that they should…

  • Look at this *ing hipster!

    Ok, who says blogging has to be serious? (thanks to Mary-Anne Breeze (Mez), facebook).

  • New Muslim Art: Saatchi Gallery

    (picture taken with my crap Samsung 1.3 mega pixle thingees phone) The Saatchi gallery is a free private gallery in West London (near Sloan Square and owned by Charles Saatchi), that exhibits new contemporary art.  Charles Saatchi is a co-founder of the mammoth advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi that has close links to the Conservative…

  • Grand delusions…

    (the Round Reading Room) Today I am working from King’s fabulous Maughan Library. I like it here, it not only expands my ever decreasing perspective on the world, but humbles me before all the great European mistakes. I am writing a series of case studies for the project I am working on called Arts-humanities.net The…

  • MA Digital Asset Management

    The Centre where I work at King’s, the Centre for eReseach, in conjunction with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), is starting a new MA course this year in Digital Asset Management. Details of the new course are as follows: The Programme will equip students with the necessary critical and reflective capacities, set…