One for the folkies

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The speaker is the endlessly interesting raver-novelist-turned-media-theorist-cum-philosopher Douglas Rushkoff, whose blog is syndicated at rushkoff.

I'm now back from the Edinburgh Local GRADschool, which was one of these "throw a load of strangers into a room for three days and make them do command tasks, so as to convince them of their aptitude for Creativity, Communication and Transferable Skills" events: this one was specifically for PhD students. I was only there because it was a condition of my funding - I've been on a few such events before, and have found them in the main to be ghastlily corporate and buzzword-laden. In the end, though, it was actually quite fun, albeit incredibly tiring. half_of_monty: yes, you told me so. You win. A bit more of a debrief to follow, hopefully, but for now I've got this conference proceedings deadline on Wednesday, and my paper still needs considerable tweaking :-(