Blogging’s Second Bounce?

The explosive growth in blogging has, inevitably, flattened out somewhat over the past couple of years. Those who led the way into blogging a decade ago and more were rare and hardy pioneers for a few years before people like me, from the middle years of the decade onwards, saw the light and piled onto [...]

“School is never out!”

These are the words of the Honourable Dina Pule, Depute Minister for Communications in the South African Government, in her ministerial address to the e-Skills Summit in Cape Town this morning.
How right she is, although I am sure she is also aware of the deep and complex arguments that surround such a seemingly simple statement [...]

A Moment of Interplay: shifting between worlds

In The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, published almost half a century ago, Marshall McLuhan observed that the world he lived in was changing shape. It was a world that, as he depicted it, was simultaneously ‘dissolving and resolving’, a world that appeared to be at ‘a moment of interplay of contrasted cultures.’ [...]

Bloomsbury Commitment to Open Publishing

From the Bloomsbury Academic website:
We’re committed to publishing the best scholarship in the social sciences and humanities – and for the content being as widely accessed as possible.
Our research publications will be made available online on a Creative Commons non-commercial license. Unlike open access journals we are not looking for authors (or their research funders) [...]

Was that the summer?

As has been our wont for the past few summers, Jan and I have been wandering the highways and byways of England for the last couple of weeks or so. We are currently in the lovely Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire (I can say with complete honesty and accuracy that we travelled from Boston to New [...]