Exeter campus bookshop, story continues on the going

Previously there have been links to the Exeter student newspaper objections to the decision not to have a bookshop when the campus centre is open again. I recently went for another look and it seems the open space may be ready for the new term in the autumn. However the retail spaces may not be finished till next year.

The Blackwells bookshop remains in a portacabin and is expected to sat there till Christmas. The new arrangement will assume a temp bookshop for a month at the beginning of the first two terms. stock will concentrate very much on courses.

It still seems to me that some sort of hard copy bookshop could continue. If the university can manage without a bookshop, do they need a library? Can video conferencing cope with lectures? The new site may be impressive but IT support may not be enough of a central feature in itself. All of this can be talked over in the remains of this year before it is too late.

I do support e-learning etc, but the theory of blending still has a scope that includes physical books. We are also losing music CDs in Exeter. The HMV shop has limited space upstairs and I will rave on about this during the wheelie Wild Show on Phonic FM. Thursday mornings 10 - 12. Current problem is Joss Stone LP1. They just don't have the stock. Tracks available on YouTube but it just seems wrong.

The photos include the architect vision in which the lighting concentrates on the new curves. And a daylight one in which the previously existing buildings are also visible. The overall effect is quite post-modern in a 1950s sort of way.

Local television can co-exist with social media - Rougemont Global Broadcasting as prototype

There is another announcement about local television. But as far as I can tell this is still concentrated on broadcast, not much about streaming over the internet or social media. Also, and this is a bit crucial, Exeter is not on the list of places for an early launch. But there can continue to be video on YouTube etc. and social media relating to this. People in Exeter can also observe what happens in Plymouth, Barnstaple and Bristol.

As mentioned previously, Rougemont Global Broadcasting is a test of what can be done via YouTube. It was always intended to complement Exeter TV. Jo Gedrych is now based in Dunbar where there is some community video but again Dunbar is not on the list. I think it will be worthwhile to stay in touch as Dunbar may have a model, or at least some info on regional events.

I am also interested in Salford as a locality. I realise the new studios are intended as a national resource but Salford has an identity in itself as well as part of Greater Manchester. Preston and Lancaster both have the potential of local television so why not other places close to Manchester?

Some of the topics that I follow relate to Exeter and other places. I have tried to develop canal walks as a chat show. This could be towards Double Locks from Exeter Quay but there are also photos for walks towards the Olympic site and between Manchester and Salford.

More later when I find out about the Culture dept proposals.

Map details attached

Meanwhile the Wheelie Wild Show on Phonic FM is an actual broadcast even if sound only. there is an awareness of social media so I will try to work in some connections between the music tracks.

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Positive spin on a weekly Express & Echo, could social media fill in the gaps?

From September the Express & Echo will be published once a week on a Thursday. It will aim at about 200 pages so perhaps almost as many as many as six times thirty two as Exeter is udes to. But I think the nature of a weekly publication could change fundamentally in relation to the internet and social media.

Currently there is not much promotion of the website in the print version. The "Contact Us" section has a paragraph on Breaking News suggesting www.thisisexeter.co.uk for updates from the Echo newsroom. If the print version is only once a week then the website will be even more essential for anything that happens between Thursdays.

Also the web is not exclusive for sources. There is no approximation towards monopoly as with a printing press. So websites become part of social media and the audience can find a variety of views. The role of a print publication could be to show all the possible connections and summarise the current conversation. A weekly is not the same as six days stacked together.

Featuring a wider range of social media could also extend the content available for print publication. OhmyNews in South Korea has developed a model of citizen journalism by concentrating resources on wedsites and editing. They have a free weekly print version to reach a wider audience. Already the Express & Echo has features such as wedding photographs sent in by readers and also on Thursdays a selection of pet photographs.

Thursday is also the day for the Wheelie Wild Show on Phonic FM. A major concern for Chris Norton is the music but I can sometimes slip in some talk so I will try to raise the issues around local media. We may carry this on while the transition to weekly print is worked through. So the Facebook page is one place to look or add a comment.

Cooperative Paper could relate to social media online : wifi Exeter map as example

http://www.spacex.co.uk/pl103.html

Paper based show starts at Spacex on Saturday. Not sure if the images will connect online.

Social media may sometimes be less restricted by academic conventions than previous recipe exchange coverage.

more later

I have an online Google drawing of a map of WifiExete. How to convert to hard copy?

https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1ZYyUZl8oDKRfwR35OGrS1rS59tV5xlZoSIqdSEVD8VI&w=960&h=720

Sidmouth Folk Week , posts shorter but more later

Sidmouth Folk Week continues so the blog posts are shorter this week. enough to remind me what to repeat.

Fallen Apples were busking outside the Anchor on Sunday. They got an actual booking at the Fringe out in the hills towards Branscombe. I don't understand what real folk music is supposed to be. I think they should have been booked onto a Sidmout stage. But the video may turn out well. Lighting at Dukes not that good, seems better from the side.

I have given up on using keywords as geo location to identify the styles connected to each pub. Well, I may come back to it later but it makes not much sense at the time. And I have not noticed many mobile devices. In theory social media could monitor the style in each location and which networks of friends should move in which direction. Actually you just keep moving to maintain reasonable information on available options. Sounds like a computer could cope but seems not to be used in practice.

For example Moveable Feast turned up in Anchor Gardens so keywords for venue same as Dukes. And I think the Fallen Apples were booked at Bedford Hotel during the winter so this venue registers along with the buskers. More data could reveal more sense.

#winterlude3 relection over winter to include BETT, Online Information and LEarning Technologies

The "winterlude" is a sort of break over winter that happens to coincide with trade shows. I started a cloudscape in 2009

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/1953

Mainly it includes Online Information, BETT and Learning Technologies

http://www.bettshow.com

http://www.online-information.co.uk/

http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk

This year the Winterlude will also include Cross Media Live although this will not happen as a show till September 2012. It is proposed by the organisers of IPEX, a major print show. My guess is that cross media is sooner than some may think.

http://www.crossmedialive.com/

Also in 2012 there will be drupa with an innovation parc

http://www.drupa.com/cipp/md_drupa/custom/pub/content,oid,18861/lang,2/ticket,g_u_e_s_t/~/Special_Shows.html

Some of the technology could be at the XML part of Online Information.

My take on XML is not that techy, i see it as  a way to cope with text. So expect more simple guesses and then actual reporting from the show floor.

#learn9papers revised papers on Learning with ISO 9000

This post is a reminder to develop this more later. Could end up as a book or at least long enough to be on offer through some payment device. I need to put some hopurs into a rewrite so current model will not work out.

Learn9.net and Scribd have copies of papers on Looking at revised ISO 9000, values and Dr Deming. these two were from Management Theory at Work conferences. Then also on Knowledge Economy, Protection Science and Experimentality. My papers have more or less repeated attempts to present ideas about quality as a method.

Current versions are free but not so easy to follow. #learn9papers should find new info when it turns up. 

"financially sustainable" - Guardian Media Group so what is "sustainable" about?

Writing to staff, Miller said that the results "underlines the need for GNM [Guardian News & Media, the immediate parent of the Guardian and Observer] to transform itself into a financially sustainable, digital-first organisation," a need that he went on to to describe was "pressing".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/01/pay-top-guardian-media-group-executives

The word "sustainable" is widely used but I am still not sure what it means. Here is an example from the Guardian. what to think?

Perhaps there is an implication of stability. as if a sustainable organisation stays much the same.

But "digital first" at the same time?  Could be rapid change as well.

Informa, what year are we in now? Taylor and Francis Cross Media Live 2011 2012

It is almost August so there is some drift mode about. But I do know which year this is.

The Bookseller reports that the proportion of digital sales for Informa publishing is 75%

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/digital-makes-75-informa-sales.html

There is not a lot of detail, though Taylor and Francis is included. Is this mostly journals? How much reference material on a database? And what sort of changes follow from this? My impression is that academic journals have mostly gone digital for libraries but the format continues. Still limited tolerance for drafts and variety of versions.

But the main point is that the Bookseller report is for actual numbers from the first half of 2011.

Meanwhile in another part of the Informa organisation Cross Media Live is announced for 2012.

http://www.crossmedialive.com/

This is aligned with the IPEX show and LinkedIn pages. The digital age offers new profits but apparently not till next year. There is something out of time in all this.

If the digital publishing reports were still of the kind where ebooks might be 3% sometime next year, then the classic IPEX view of view of print would still make sense.