I think every time I get around to updating this site I always say, ‘oh I’ve been so busy, must do better…’, but, to be honest, the likelihood of that is never great. But in positive news there have been some things happening. As you probably all know the world has been pretty screwed […]
Every time I say that it’s been ages since I’ve updated this site, it becomes even longer before I get around to doing it again. But I have some updating to do. I have completed my second PhD. This one is in publishing studies. It’s called Books Are Social: the role of social technology in […]
It’s been unforgivably long since I’ve posted anything here. I know that all 5 of you who occasionally stumble upon this site have been waiting anxiously for updates… But let me catch you up. I am now a senior lecturer and the Publishing MA coordinator at Oxford Brookes University. The role is full-on, busy, and […]
As promised, from time to time I will update the timeline of social media. I am not going to say much about this, but I will highlight that Peach, had its rise and fall so swiftly that in a few days it was considered dead. We also found out in the past year that no […]
It was a gamble, I admit. And, I didn’t get it 100% right, but last week we decided to go ahead with the re-design of Lunchquest. It was time. It hadn’t changed at all from the first time I set it up four years ago, and many things were no longer fit for purpose. So […]
First things first when writing about Foucault’s theories: get a hold of the concepts first. This is the part that hurts the head and taxes the brain, but it is the most necessary way to come to terms with Foucault’s works. Now, I am not claiming to be a scholar of all things Foucault, but […]