It’s been a busy few months here in PhD land, but don’t worry. I’ve not forgotten this website or blog. In fact, in the next couple of weeks you can expect a couple of bogs to come up focusing on different topics that may be of interest: this time Echoes of the City. I […]
Here’s an ebook history. I know, I’ve been quiet for a while. A lot of very exciting things have been happening both with my research and in other projects I have underway. But, one interesting thing that has come up in the past few weeks is the history of eBook readers. It’s actually very hard […]
Thanks to a generous grant from The Bridge Awards I was able to attend the 2016 Futurebook Conference in London on December 04, 2016. This was in order to further my doctoral research on whether social media can be a slush pile for traditionally published products and how publishing models need to shift to accommodate […]
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 […]
As promised, here is the final keynote speaker from the 2015 Futurebook, Charlie Redmayne, HarperCollins UK Chief Executive. It’s a nicely long piece, so there is no transcript.
This week, as part of my part-time day job with Scottish Book Trust, I wrote a blog about writing poetry on Twitter, or Twitter Poetry; it will be part of a series of ‘Doing Digital’ blogs looking at using social platforms as a place to create and share creative writing. You can read the blog […]
This blog post will focus on tips for getting on with theoretical writing. Foucault’s works are dense and sometimes hard to use, but the benefits of wrapping your head around the Archaeology and Genealogy are innumerable when working in transmedia settings. For the past 10-11 months, I’ve been working on writing the theory chapter for […]
Oolipo While I’ve heard of a Wattpad and Medium, I’d not heard of Oolipo until a digital meeting which basically came down to: How can writers make money from working in digital. This is a hard question to answer, and none of us had a real way to approach it. Sure, we can teach people […]
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