What you get when Research and Community come together
A report just came out from RIN.ac.uk that is relevant to the aims of this website (more details on the project website ). I will tweet out some of the more interesting factoids on @techczech but I think the results can be summarised roughly in three points: Very few researchers use Web 2.0 services. Case…
Read more →I started this whole thought experiment as someone who knows quite a lot about research and quite a lot about technology and the social web. But not all that much about how they go together. Sure I've trained others in researching the web, using social networking and bibliographic management with Zotero. And I've advised academics…
Read more →One of the thoughts that kept coming up in my head as I was hearing about all these great digital humanities projects at THATCamp London was: this is amazing but it's yet another silo. As someone who has tried (and mostly failed) building several very niche communities with non-tech inclined audiences, I've come to the…
Read more →I have been thinking about this for a while but the below happened as a proposal for THATCamp London . If somebody already had this idea, great. If somebody had a similar idea, lets think about this together. If somebody likes these ideas and wants to do something about it, you're welcome to them! What…
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