Shift Happens was an arts/digital conference thingy the other week that I regret missing. It looked to be rather interesting. Chris does a roundup.

Chris goes through five hours of Twitter usage and lists the useful and interesting things that came to him through it. As he says, it works because he's developed a relevant community of people to follow but that's kinda the point. What you get depends on what you put into this stuff.

Chris Unitt raises the idea of extending the artist/writer/poet/dancer-in-residence concept to blogging.

Chris Unitt picks up on and develops an item on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed about how Indian slum children, left to their own devices, interacted with a computer built into a wall.

"After 7-8 hours they were teaching each other to browse. After a few days or weeks they were operating everything in Windows. Between 3-6 months the children were capable of using a computer to the standard of the average user in the West. School results jumped spectacularly when the children discovered Google."

Chris Unitt is succession planning for CiB. He plans to hand over the reins in January. Anyone interested should get on his (or my, come to think of it) radar.

Nice short interview with Chris who took over CiB from me in the Spring. Gives me a chance to say how pleased I am with how well he's found his voice on the site and has made it his own over the last few months.