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.
We got a call just after 10:30am on Wednesday from ITN saying that they had a film crew in Guildford reporting on the overnight snow and wondering whether they could come and film at our Warm Hub. In the late summer, you know when we had a change of monarch and several prime ministers and…
I don’t really know Dave Winer, but in the world of blogs, everyone feels like they know the people they read and I read Dave’s blog everyday and I listen to his Morning Coffee Notes podcast. Dave turns 50 today and he’s asked for links rather than presents. I’m glad to do that for him,…
Sunball and Joe are two of the DFID Youth Reporters, a group of young people who are part of a mentoring programme to help them bring a youth perspective to debates about “poverty, climate change, growth, stability and jobs” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSR44SaFhE&fmt=18] My experience of them both was that they combined a startlingly deep knowledge of current…
I’m in the USA for the first time – just had my first american breakfast (burp) which also included sightings of Linda Gray and Larry Hagman – you know that you’re in Texas when… Before yesterday, I hadn’t been on a plane for more than 4 hours and never been on anything bigger than an…
I’m talking to some lovely folk at a top-secret location somewhere in the North-West of England. We’re talking about the social web and how they might use it. This blogpost is an example. While I’m writing this they are all sitting quietly and I’m also uploading some pictures to flickr. I’m showing them how I…
I may never do a solid day’s work again! [Readership {groans)…what new toy have you found today Lloyd?] I ignore you, faithful readership [at my peril, I know] but LOOK at ARTRAGE – I stumbled over it in one of the less-quoted paragraphs of Scoble’s message-in-a-bottle and It’s….. It’s painting Jim, but not as we…