In just two weeks' time, a project I have been working on for the last six months with Ravenbourne students, The Royal Shakespeare Company, networking company Cisco, and educational Internet provider Ja.net will be reaching…
E-commerce for MintArts.com with Prestashop
E-commerce has been one of the main drivers of the Internet age, with sites like Amazon and Ebay becoming household names from nowhere in scarcely a decade. Their popularity has changed the face of retail…
Book Project – Chapter 1
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Image via Wikipedia[/caption] Over more of the last few years than I should admit, I've been trying to put together a book that summarises and explains what is happening in the…
Radical Transparency 1
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Image via Wikipedia[/caption] Recently, my Twitter followers were annoyed to see my feed taken over by an electronic device, which was robotically announcing my travel destinations, and occasionally (when I let…
Why the Wisdom of Crowds is not enough…
Social media has been around for a few years, and has now reached the stage where people are starting to forecast its impending demise. They cite the saturation of Facebook memberships in some Western countries,…
Welcome to the digital panopticon
We've had the Middle Eastern civil uprisings allegedly fuelled by Twitter, and now we've had the Blackberry-powered riots here in the UK. Together, these two situations show the power of social networking to amplify and…
Ravensbourne viral video
I got together with students from the course I run at Ravensbourne to create a viral video to help with promotion. Here's our first product:
Vive La France!
France’s banning of the use of Facebook and Twitter self-promotion by members of the French media has met with some derision in the US. But it’s really not such a crazy strategy. Both in the…
Hello (academic) world!
So I finally started an academic blog. Since I’ve been a permanent academic employee at Ravensbourne for around 9 months now, it seemed about time. Academia is still a very exclusive club. Research is still…
