Yesterday Sue Cranmer and myself went to the UKCCIS summit. Futurelab is listed as one of the council’s members and it’s obviously an area we are interested in. What follows are just a few of the thoughts I had about the event.

In the first week of September I attended Digra 2009 (for those that don’t know Digra stands for Digital Games Research Association). This was fascinating as I am not really a gamer. In fact, according to Richard Bartle (one of the keynote speakers) this means that I shouldn’t write about games at all. However, on [...]

I was wondering why music lessons are often poor. I must admit, it’s not an area I have thought about before today, and if it wasn’t for the Today programme this morning I wouldn’t have given it a second thought.

To stop me thinking about the remote possibility of a “shuddering, fiery, boiling, cataclysmic end [of the world] on Wednesday this week” (see the BBC for one such discussion) – although given the weather here in Bristol I agree with my three year old that we’re more likely to be flooded – I have been [...]