Ever thought about weekend theatre breaks in London? **Book London theatre break tickets now, with hotel or travel and meal in any combination via DARnet through London Theatre Breaks** It’s well known that in London we have lots of famous old theatres all around the Shaftesbury Avenue area of the West End ‘Theatreland’ as well […]
Another Animoto movie, this time about London Bridge for the song “Cormorants“. After the one I captured from Animoto and converted for youTube recently, it was nice to get a comment from Tom Clifton of Animoto with a promise that we’ll be able to dowload high res versions “within a few weeksâ¦?” That’s great Tom, […]
London Underground tube mainentance workers went on strike today, as planned five weeks ago. The dispute is preciptated by the employer Metronet going into bancruptcy and the RMT union is campaigning for the maintenance of Transport for London’s undergound infrastructure to be brought back under public ownership. Labour Prime minister Gordon Brown and London Mayor […]
During the month of August I’ve been undertaking an intensive online course about the commercial internet and web 2.0. This course is called the Thirty Day Challenge and it has covered aspects including the crucial importance of market research, methods for measuring potential traffic, immersive learning, ethical writing, targeted posting, and authentic voice authorship. It’s […]
I know this is a bit off-topic for DARnet but it is August after all, and during this month I’ve been doing some research about astronomy for beginners. The perseids watching was a genuine interst and now after the main part of the event I read a newsreport from South Wales, one of my favourite […]
It’s not that I intend giving out lessons on amateur astronomy for beginners, and I don’t own a telescope or anything, but I do like to notice interesting phenomena in the natural world, and that includes the heavens. The phases of the moon, Venus the evening star, the basic star constellations like the Plough and Casseopeia […]
Inspired by Tino Triste, I have decided to remove the rel=”nofollow” tag from the comments links in this blog, to reward people who leave relevant comments. The world wide web was designed precisely to to be made out of of sites linking to each other and this principle is used to determine the strength, relevancy, […]
Informal learning, Internet technology and Action Reseach – and a new design! I’ve added a new tag line to the blog: Informal learning, Internet technology and Action research This is taken from my degree title, of course, but as ever with the degree adapted to my own context! These are the main topics I blog […]
I had a bit of time to myself with an offline laptop recently, whilst Linda was using my main computer to record an interview podcast as it happens. So I decided to write a reflective “about” page for the blog. The main purpose was for myself, trying to get some focus on where the blog […]
The ideas of object centered sociality formed a big stimulus when Jyri Engestrm visited London in June . This post is just to note a report of Hugh MacLeod speaking at connectSF. from InmanBlog: Social networking sites are all about “social objects.” The objects themselves — pictures people upload to Flickr, say — are unimportant. […]
