Archive for the ‘masters’ Category

Offline Social Networking.

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Met with Shani Lee ( Nlab co-ordinator and part of CCCLeicester) this afternoon for lunch and a natter at DMU. Came across a few points of shared interest - which was good. Especially when we are on the same page about the predominance of Leicester's new media and social technology presence online. I am ...

Smartmob Leicester.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

As AJCann wrote about earlier - we used to Seesmic to arrange a "smartmob" (or "coffee" for those who are not convinced by social media terminology) to discuss what was proposed yesterday. In the past - from holding various moderator roles and reveling in teen angst as a Livejournal "early ...

Nonfirmation.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

For those who haven't been following me on Twitter I've been in Roskilde (Denmark) for the last 4-5 days. I was over for my wee cousin's Nonfirmation (Which is all about coming of age - without any of the religious attachment - probably more about officially rejecting Christianity - and ...

Pondering about Twitter…

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

(Taking over from Alan, who has banned himself from blogging about it... spreading enthusiasm...) Whilst in the jacuzzi (Oh the wonders of being a grad student...) with my friend/housemate/occasional dissertation buddy, Stuart, I was explaining the excitement I had for Twitter and how some of the best discussion was occurring upon ...

Old School Internet. (aka books and stuff.)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Today I am forcing myself to get down to some "proper" background reading for both my dissertation and the two remaining Masters essays I have left to complete. I'm actually reading such things as "books" - a novel concept where somebody has printed off the Internet and stuck it all ...