Wizz Jones sings a topical song about the Beatniks in Cornwall 1960 and Alan Whicker reports on the local council’s letter to shopkeepers urging them all to refuse to serve people with long hair. Wizz Jones with the beatniks in Newquay 1960 Wizz Jones was one of the seminal acoustic singer songwriters who helped to […]

I think the Post Office might be one of the best broadband deals for anybody making the move from dial up to broadband for the first time because of the hand-holding you get with the setting up. It’s also a serious contender for anybody disatisfied with their present broadband provider and considering switching over. The […]

Where did the wealth destroyed on Stock Markets come from? If 20 percent of the value of world stock markets can be wiped out in one week, as has just happened, then where does that wealth actually disappear to? Is it buried in a big hole somewhere, scuttled at sea or sent on a rocket […]

Do you notice anything odd about this dartboard seen in an East London pub recently? Most darts boards look a bit like this, but different. How on earth would you ever end a game of 301 on such a dart board?

Sea Eagles Release Programme Various attempts have been made over the years, some successful, to reintroduce wildlife species into areas where they have become extinct in the past. The ospreys in England are one well known example, and a similar scheme is currently underway to reintroduce sea eagles into Scotland. This season is the second […]

Lobster pot fishing Loading up a small boat with lobster pots ready to put out from Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife. I’ve always been fascinated to watch the comings and going in these little fishing village harbours in Cornwall, France, Spain and now the east of Scotland. “We watch the working boats come […]

Continuing the interview with Cormac Lawler, in which we begin to address the nature of “learning by doing” as it relates to distributed projects, and wiki in particular. Cormac Lawler: About changing of groups’ structure over time, I think my own domain (Wikiversity) is showing an increasingly strong tension along the lines of making Wikiversity […]

Theatre Breaks not for cutbacks   Having avoided traditional summer holidays the past two years, preferring to go abroad in the off seasons, I certainly won’t be cutting back on theatre breaks and other little weekends away or short breaks in the UK. Neither will hoards of other people up and down the country regardless […]

Twitter Story ContestI was alerted to a twitter writing competition over on copyblogger and decided to have a go. The rules are that the story must be exactly 140 characters in length, and it’s only one entry per person with a deadline this Friday so I composed an entry right away. I could have waited […]

After a bit of a gap, the two-way interview between Cormac Lawler and myself continues. This post continues the discussion about distributed action research and wikiversity from previous episodes:DARnet-interview-part 1DARnet interview part twoPart 3: Questions About Wikiversity Andy Roberts asked: I’d be very interested to hear to what extent parts of Wikiversity have managed to […]