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Infrastructure: The importance of failure 9 May 2013 | 05:47 pm
On 6th June 2012 internet access to Bangladesh was severely disrupted when the South-East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) cable was damaged. The SEA-ME-WE 4 cable runs from Franc...
More Issues in Open Access(#OA) 13 Dec 2012 | 06:04 pm
photo: Horia Varlan There has been a recent flurry of activity around Open Access (OA) as Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) gear up to implement ...
Opening up publicly funded research – the questions David Willetts hasn’t answered 16 Jul 2012 | 11:23 pm
photo: DougitDesign.com / Doug Aghassi Today the UK Science Minister David Willetts announced ‘plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by ...
Some Thoughts on Open Access Publishing 3 Jul 2012 | 07:42 pm
photo: B4bees Last week Graham Harman posted an interesting set of thoughts about the importance of open access publishing (here, here, here and here). I came to Harman’s comments via Stuart Elden’s...
Between us in the City 29 May 2012 | 06:34 am
photo: Gregory Jordan The latest issue of Environment and Planning D has a special theme issue: Citizenship Without Community edited by Angharad Closs Stephens and Vicky Squire. It’s a great issue w...
Doctoral Studentships in Politics at Newcastle University 12 Jan 2012 | 03:20 am
Originally posted at www. chasing dragons.org North East Doctoral Training Centre ESRC Funded Studentships in Politics Politics at Newcastle University is pleased to announce the availability of ESR...
Modern Warfare 3 and the retreat from precision 30 Nov 2011 | 04:05 am
photo credit: Joseph G. Ajila Pinzón Recently I finally found time to play my way through the single-player campaign of Modern Warfare 3 (MW3). As those who follow me on twitter know, I had been a...
Reading Peter Adey’s Aerial Life 26 Nov 2011 | 05:37 am
photo credit: albertopveiga Just over a year ago, I was invited to comment on Peter Adey’s book Aerial Life for an ‘author meets critics’ panel at the at the RGS-IBG conference. It was a real plea...
The LSE-Gaddafi affair: the lesson for UK Higher Education policy 7 Mar 2011 | 11:59 pm
photo credit: Tracy O In a perceptive comment on the LSE-Saif Gaddafi affair, Richard Sennett notes that LSE director Howard Davies “didn’t create the problem of the dodgy donor – he succumbed to a s...
James Ash: Commodifying Affect 21 Jan 2011 | 04:28 am
photo credit: baboon™ I’ve been busy for the last month or so, so have fallen behind with a few things. One of the things I wanted to publicise before Christmas was James Ash‘s New Voices seminar at ...
