I recently wrote about the Doing research amongst technologies workshop series I am co-organising, and for which I co-convened the opening workshop session. I also had a pleasure of attending the second of the series, convened by a colleague from my Open University days, Joe Smith, a consummate public scholar, both in the broadcast and digital realms. I wrote some reflections on Joe’s session over on the workshop website, which focused on the prospects and challenges of doing ‘digital scholarship’. As ever, Joe provided some interesting and often stunning examples of digital scholarship, many concerning his core research areas of environmental change and the politics of consumption.