By chance I happen to be in Birmingham on one of the evenings when the lovely Nick Booth runs his social media surgeries in the fantastic Fazeley Studios.
And I’m helping out by showing some folk how to blog and post pictures.
Day 2 (of about 50 over the next three months) of my time with Newham Social Services, leading the Performance Team (the guys who collect performance information about services and report it to senior management) while a permanent person is recruited. Getting some sense of perspective today of what’s actually possible in 3 months and…
This morning to a presentation on Rewerse (semantic stuff including a tool to do smart screen scraping – not sure about this, will blog later). Then a warm and dull hour with Factiva on taxonomy yawn – had a mad dash to find some food that I could eat – everything here was bread and…
Just back from the “launch” (well a great opportunity to listen to Larry Lessig in the flesh for an hour anyway) of Creative Commons licences for the UK at UCL. Thanks to Louise for publicising the event. Interesting to hear the various reactions to Remix Culture and what to do about it. Useful fact: The…
It was like a two-hour roller coaster ride. I ZOMG-d out loud nearly all the way. Way more intimate than I’d expected, and I’m not talking about the lady with the handkerchief. Hard to describe without spoilers – you need to go, it’s only booking til April 19th and go for tickets in the “floor”…
True connie-sewers of the podcasting art will already be subscribed to http://www.perfectpath.co.uk/psc/index.xml in both their newsreaders and their podcatchers and will therefore be savouring the dulcet tones of Andrew Webster, Executive Director of Social Services for the London Borough of Lambeth over on Public Service Conversations. For the rest of you – geddover there now…
So the Swan Youth Theatre of the eighties reunionised itself on Saturday night with fabulous help from Richard Jones, Clair Hector, Adrian Phillips and Kathy Jones. All of whom are pictured here together with Rufus Norris, Marc Dugmore, Ali Nott, Viv Norris and Richard Sockett (this was a recreation of a press photo of this…