04/11/2009
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BFI, Stephen Street, London. W1
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BFI, Stephen Street, London. W1
I’ve been working in a variety of ways at the Centre for Creative Collaboration for more than a year now. My trip to America gave me an opportunity to reflect on what I’ve learned with others in the course of that year. Whenever I told people about the Centre, they were very interested in what…
Some (actually many) years ago I was working as an Information Manager at the Audit Commission. I became increasingly frustrated by the difficulty of joining up data across, the organisation. There were loads of opportunities to add more value to what we were doing by taking data collected in different contexts and telling stories based…
I had a chat at #tuttle with Al Robertson about incorporating some sort of racing element to the trip. He suggested instead of racing people to pit myself perhaps against some moleskins, USB sticks or other storage devices that could be passed on from person to person completely independent of my trip. Hurrah (yet again)…
Sunday didn't feel like a Sunday at all. Daytime was a lot of trying to get to meet people and being frustrated. I spent the afternoon at a #technomad meetup – lots of very interesting people using social technology to travel in different ways and generally be homeless without being *homeless*. In the evening, I…
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Dear American Friend I’m writing to tell you about my forthcoming coast-to-coast trip which I’ll be making in March and to ask for your help and support. I’m calling it “Please Look After This Englishman” and it involves me traversing the real-world instantiation of my online social network, acquiring and…
Download (5MB) Cathy talks to us about the importance of including and attracting more women in building the future; the importance of support from family and teachers; actively explaining what an exciting career engineering can be; she also tells us about the work of the Future Cities Catapult Helen Keegan and I spent International Women’s…
Unspeakably jealous. Of the cool films but mostly of the steenbeck. I learnt to edit on one of those, and sitting here in a big pile next to my desk are my old 16mm cans full of prints and negatives, pleading to be saved from the format junkyard. Just using a steenbeck and watching images made by light shone through tiny stips of celluloid is already like travelling way back in time across the vast exploding continuum of technology. All these web videos will soon be unreadable in just a few years, too, unless we preserve them somehow.