http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:21:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  After spending much of Monday discussing future web strategy with various JISC folk and then following the blog and Twitter coverage at JIF08 at Keele I was inspired to come and check out the old blog and give it a bit of a spring clean! Thankfully Akismet has been working its ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/17/just-a-quick-visit/ Things have obviously been a little quiet here for a while and beyond my usual laziness in getting posts up on a regular basis the main reason is that I am now primarily blogging at http://backpass.org This is in light of my soon to be freelance status and a feeling that ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2008/03/14/ive-moved/ Its been a busy old week in the wide, wacky world of the web.. Flavour of the month (and a personal fave of mine) Twitter has been down for often than not in the last week or so.  There also seems to be some infrastructure moves going on behind the scenes ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2008/02/03/big-week-on-the-interweb/ The demise of Eduspaces is a real pity as it seemed to be a community with a decent niche and a well established user-base.  That said it is a tough thing to make money from and not everyone is Facebook and the team at Curverider have mortgages to pay like ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2007/12/18/eduspaces-r-i-p/ Over the last few months I've spent alot of time thinking (and reading ....) about this whole 'amplified conference' idea - and especially in the last few weeks its been something of an oasis of web 2.0 fun in a desert of mundane web 1.0 activity! Both Brian Kelly and Andy ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2007/12/18/ampd-conference-20/ OK it has been pointed out to me by one or two people that my blog post yesterday might have been a little bit negative! I'm not going to pretend I haven't been frustrated by elements of my new role but things are slowly improving and its just a ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2007/12/04/the-negative-zone/ Its becoming increasingly apparent to me that I have been living and, more importantly, working in some kind of bubble for the last couple of years.  The great leaps forward in the web that I saw happening around me were actually an illusion and they had failed to take hold ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2007/12/03/brave-new-world-not-really/ No sooner had I finished mulling over the implications of the Power of Information report I wrote about earlier in the week when I came across another eGov/Web 2.0 article - this time from Richard MacManus at the Read/WriteWeb blog (based on a couple of Gartner reports). In this case it ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2007/11/06/more-egov-ramblings/ During the summer a pretty radical (well for the government) paper was published called The Power of Information.  Brian Kelly recently wrote about it on his blog and it reminded me I had been carrying it around with me since I left JISC!  It took a hard look at government ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2007/11/05/by-the-power-of-greyskooops-information/ Well life at my new job at HEFCE has certainly been eye-opening. As far as working environments go it couldn't be much more different than I'm used to and the fact that I had to have a member of IT install Firefox for me after getting permission as it ... http://jukes.jiscinvolve.org/2007/10/31/new-job-week-2/