Gaberrz encourages Exeter City Council towards YouTube #EX1to4

The official Exeter City Council printed flier is out for the summer In The City Season 2011.

The info on Acoustica in the Park includes the news that Gabrielle Aplin is a "YouTube sensation"

this is well based in numbers

So my question is what would happen if Exeter City Council put even more energy into YouTube when promoting events?

Previously I have found some difficulty in connecting to animation on YouTube for example because of a policy not to support flash for bandwidth rerasons. Fortunately the central library now sells headphones so YouTube awareness spreads ever wider.

#EX1to4 is a suggested tag to add to anything in that area. could be Youtube clips or just a text tweet if that seems easier.

Meanwhile, anyone know a good #tag for "respect, exeter"

YouTube keeps coming up with Aretha Franklin. No bad thing, but not quite what I was looking for.

University without a bookshop, a first for Exeter?

My blog on wifi Exeter has more on the apparent decision to provide web access rather than a bookshop when Exeter campus returns to normal early next year.

Is there another university with a policy not to have a bookshop as in selling paper books?

The building costs have been multiple millions. My guess is that the costs of a bookshop startup are not of great interest to Blackwells or Waterstones at this time. Anyone know where else there might be investment?

If you have a campus with a bookshop, maybe best to leave it alone.

web to print should myoui consider a day pass? #andytribute

Web to Print – It is the Future for Print
By Andrew Tribute
I recently attended and spoke at the Xerox Forum, an event run in Berlin by Xerox Europe. I was speaking on a panel and was asked what I would recommend for printers to invest in within the next year. My answer was that I would recommend developing their Internet expertise in the area of web to print to make it easier for customers to work with them.
 
Like my other blogs this one boils down to linking to Andrew Tribute.
 
Web to print is now official and drupa seems closer than further away.
 
My only quibble is that whattheythink keep sending me these snippets that then demand a subscription when you click.
 
Could we just have one email a month with a really good bit? I do think about a day pass but need to clear my diary so I could concentrate for the day.
 

#therecipeexchange making a story , social media, blog formats, review group

Don't think previous blog made it into the review site
 
 
 
previously my Tourist photos were included but the format is for extended text in final edit. Maybe Facebook is closer to a blog but I need a few more words.
 
Recipe exchange as based in a village history. Social media, hacker party, Manchester open media, academics on YouTube. We still do not know what this show is about.

internet course material , what happened in the UK? @chrisjones

A tweet from Chris Jones leads me to a warning story in the London Review of Books
 
 
The danger is that private commercial operations will take market share from the existing UK universities.
 
Examples from the USA are described, in particular the University of Phoenix.
 
It is stated that "The assumption guiding these new institutions is that the internet provides the ideal vehicle for delivering course material to less well-off students, who can study at home as suits their schedule."
 
So I wonder about whether people at UK universities have thought about the internet for core functions - research, subjects that actually interest them, conversation, students with loads of money for PhD etc.
 
My impression is that a lot of the research so far has been forms of critique, reasons why the technology is not quite right and why things should carry on as usual. Learning technologists learn that technology is not the way to get published.
 
Disruption takes many forms. Can be internal for organisations, but not often.
 
This extended tweet is not aimed at @chrisjones in particular. Just follows on from his link.
 

lost track of critique , the cloud is here anyway

Previous post on Cross Media Live is still making sense.

There is now a communications scene of which print is a part. when the trade shows demonstrate this clearly is not known precisely but I will try to do a damage check around the first week of December this year. Bound to be "disruptive".

Meanwhile print culture continues. I find that Spacex still expect responses to art to be in text format. Networked Learning conference has limited video and no easy embed function in the message system.

Technology enhanced learning as a subject is still mostly about learning theory, not much technology as such. There could be more disruption. 

The critique issues I have come across seem to have been looking at technology as if there was a choice how much it should be used. I think things have gone beyond a design phase. At Experimentality last eyar there was critique of the cloud but I think the technology is now so widely used that it has to be accepted as available. There are positive aspects but the critique base for a manifesto seems not to have followed this up. Maybe there are journal articles somewhere that I can't find. So I keep looking but meanwhile I think there are uses for social media that are worth getting on with.

scope of "print" shows should have changed already #crossmedialive

The Guardian Media pages include an interview with Gavin O'Reilly in which there is mention that both the Guardian and the Times are making losses. But this is not seen as important enough to explore.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/30/interview-gavin-oreilly-independent-media

There is nothing on an Irish web strategy for news. Printweek last week had nothing on Cross Media Live but repeated that Northprint attendance was 40% up.

I still think the decision to launch a Cross Media event was welcome and also shows a judgement on what is happening. Print media continue not to report print media all that well. If they just suddenly ended it would be a "shock". As in closure of web offset reported in Printweek.

September 2012 definitely too late. Discussion should start now, maybe IPEX World on LinkedIn.

#likeminds #therecipeexchange recipe minds like exchange in Exeter

Still thinking about how art is promoted through social media

probably has something to do with small pieces loosely joined

Recipe Exchange continues through actual Spacex, Twitter, Facebook etc.

Like Minds returns to Exeter later in the year (Paris online much sooner)

Like movies but directors are quite keen on control of visual images.

#cqimoso Digital Aesthetics move along Plan - Do - Study - Act #therecipeexchange

I am still thinking about the idea of "Sense - Think - Act" as presented at the Spacex meeting on digital aesthetics. I am still not sure how this is aesthetics. Maybe there is a model or pattern in the mind that just seems right. Usually i find that Plan - Do -Check/Study - Act makes most sense. But you have to think about it. The action or doing is in two places or phases. Is it the designer or the machine that has this momentum built in?

Anyway, there is still a loop. The "sense" can just start again. The same events could be described with either model.

The idea of prototypes was much discussed. apparently the Arduino is rarely replaced with dedicated hardware. The idea that it can be frequently changed just takes hold.

So the Recipe Exchange needs to consider changes in recipes over time. This is not yet obvious on the website. Maybe the word "procedure" would help. I am trying to relate things to quality idea.

Meanwhile on YouTube #cqimoso is working well as a search tag. I started some clips during last year and there is now an excellent animated slide show as well as an intro on the official CQI channel. Numbers show there is some interest. So this is a reasonable start in using YouTube as a base for more social media interest..

Cross Media in the UK - will the issues wait till September 2012 #crossmedialive

The Cross Media site has been updated to show the first event in September 2012. I heard about this through LinkedIn on the IPEX World group but have now checked the public site.

http://www.crossmedialive.com/

Cross Media Live will be at the Business Design Centre in Islington, where Adobe Live happened on a couple of occasions. My guess is that Adobe attend fewer actual events as time moves on. Things could be very different in September 2012.

The event is intended for "design, marketing, brand owners and print professionals to meet and discuss key industry issues and the latest technology trends."

At IPEX issues included the future of business to business publishing in print. Will Printweek have moved entirely online by next year? Or if this is a bit fanciful, will there be a clear statement of Haymarket strategy?

There are so many possible views on the likely dates for technology developments. I think this is a significant month, May 2011, when the organisers of IPEX decided on a Cross Media event without "heavy metal" as suitable for London.

By the way, I am also interested in the canal walk from Regent's Park to the Olympic Site. To find the way, just head east. Except for the tricky bit where there is a tunnel from King's Cross to Angel.  There is a need for an A4 sheet with a clear map. Help please. One route is very close to the Business design Centre. Early in 2012 would be ok but this cannot wait till September.