If you’re in any way involved with digital culture (which essentially means all of us), you really need to read Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the…
VIRCOMM 2014 and the Science of Community
The 2014 instalment of the VIRCOMM conference was the first to be organised by up-and-coming community management consultancy FeverBee, founded by the energetic Richard Millington. The theme this year was the science of community management,…
Don’t mention Doctor Who…
[caption id="attachment_2532" align="alignleft" width="300"] David Tennant as Richard II[/caption] On Friday 15th November, Ravensbourne hosted a milestone in online video distribution. A Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Richard II starring the increasingly ubiquitous David Tennant…
Singapreneurs, anyone?
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240"] Nanyang Technological University Campus (Photo credit: Venet_)[/caption] Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be invited to Singapore to present a series of guest lectures at Nanyang Technological University's (NTU)…
Heading to South By
SXSW Interactive is allegedly the greatest event in the world for anyone in the creative Web and technology industries. Sitting here on a plane containing select former colleagues from my previous life as a computer…
Google Minus – Reporting from VIRCOMM 2013
It was highly ironic this week to sit through an entire day's worth of conference presentations at VIRCOMM 2013, an event for online community professionals, and hardly hear Google+ mentioned at all. In fact, the…
Coda to Mozfest 2012
For the second year running, the university where I (mostly) work has been host to Mozilla's annual Festival. Mozilla hires the entire building – all nine floors of it – and fills it with the…
The End of TV!
So, I've been beavering away over the summer on the book I started a few years ago and have been struggling to get any headway with ever since. I did manage to get the first…
I, Cinna Success
On Monday 2nd July 2012, Ravensbourne hosted the I, Cinna event I mentioned in a previous blog post. This brought together the talents of students from a wide range of course backgrounds, as well as…