06/11/2009

I’ve just done a quick count of the clothes that I’m carrying with me.  I don’t know why I hadn’t done it before, but hadn’t.  I suppose I packed in a hurry, concentrating more  on getting stuff into storage than what I was taking with me. So in my suitcase (plus what i’m wearing right…

I'm reading Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines, as #llobo's tend to do. Actually I'd avoided reading it till now because I didn't want it to unduly influence my thinking about my own wanderings.  Which it now is, of course, but that's another story. There's a point though where one of the characters reads from Karl Marx's…

Why do people buy stories?  Why do people pay story-tellers to tell them the stories that they’ve gathered out in the world?   I’m not talking about the bulk of book & movie purchases, which seems to be fiction: made-up, complicated and modernised versions of ancient themes.  They’re generally reassurances that all is well –…

OK, so I’ve just about cleared searches for “The Apprentice” out of my referral logs (of course until the next series) but a couple of weeks ago Suw said she was helping Saira Khan to set up a blog for a show Radio 5 and now Saira’s going round inviting bloggers to a do next…

A couple of things in my stream this morning about using newly liberated data: Hadley pointing to Jo Ivens’s piece “Open data: we can’t just rely on developers” for demsoc.org “I am a policy type who cares about social justice and believes that the voluntary and social enterprise sectors can have a central role in…