Never mind, Ali is up here for the i3 conference next week and so we'll put the world to rights then. My chums, Ali Pickard and Julie McLeod were away Ali in the Ukraine (please make your own jokes) and Julie at a conference. A very agreeable time was had and I was very satisfied with all the courseworks I saw. Now, as you know dear readers, I love my sojourns in Newcastle and this was no exception. I've been down in Newcastle for the last two days at Northumbria University doing my external examining for the Information and Communication Management masters programme. The papers from i3 will be appearing in Information Research in due course. She also highlighted just how important it for us to learning from marketing as a discipline. The final one was Dr Christine Urquhart, formerly of Aberystwyth University who brought together many of the themes which had emerged from the previous days' sessions. Our other keynotes were Professor Jane McKenzie from Henley Business School who is a knowledge management specialist and spoke on various aspects of organisational learning. I never thought that the Erzhaus would make it into i3 but, as you will imagine dear readers, I was very pleased that it did. Adam earned my undying admiration by beginning his paper by speaking about the Spanish Habsburgs and how their inbreeding eventually brought the line to an end in 1700 with the death of hopelessly deranged Carlos II. Something, this genealogist, confesses he hadn't thought of previously. He offers some thought-provoking insights into information flow through genetics from a start point that ancestry is the way we communicate information through the generations. This year we were delighted to have Dr Adam Rutherford, the geneticist, journalist and television presenter who offered a very entertaining and enlightening presentation. At i3, we endeavour to have one keynote (out of four) who comes from outside the information science discipline and can, therefore, offer a very different take on information.
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