Image: Mark Hillary via Flickr (Creative Commons)Going Digital
This event was held today at the Guardian HQ, on York Way, which is just around the corner from King's Cross station, which is ideal for me. This was a very nice building to be able to see inside, and good coffee.
There were some interesting speakers, but I'm not sure how successful they were at addressing the title of the day, which was related to using online resources to raise achievement.
The Guardian Archive was not demonstrated much, although this was one of the showpiece elements of the day, although some of the image collections that were demonstrated had, for me, less use than the millions of Creative Commons licensed images on Flickr.
Martin Wainwright, who has written an intriguing book called 'TRUE NORTH' was an entertaining speaker. He also provided some good C.P. Scott stuff, and Jo Grimond.
Here is the somewhat circuitous stream-of-consciousness topic sequence that Martin went through, starting with a conversation with someone on the train to London from Leeds...
Train - British Rail - Narnia - Nature table - Health and Safety - Morris Minors - Martin Parr - Fungi - London Plane - Guardian Manchester Garage - Elephants - Guy Fawkes
It was good to see the Jane Bown photography exhibition down on the ground floor as well.
Managed to get work done on the train there and back, so all in all a reasonably useful day.
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