Getting to Lafayette I've planned a few days rest near Lafayette LA before moving onto New Orleans – it's a kind of mid-point decompression after SXSW. I'd really like to be there as long as I can – Thursday thru Sunday. I misread the Amtrak timetable and thought I could leave Austin on Wednesday night…
Day 2 was a travel day – the first of five. The hotel staff redeemed themselves by telling us about an excellent supermarket behind the Royal Palace in Amsterdam – as we were going to be on a train most of the day and we got up late, we basically had picnic breakfast and picnic…
I’m very grateful to be asked to report from the London Summit on Thursday as part of the G20Voice team. I’m one of 50 international bloggers invited to take part. As usual with events involving high profile government figures, the details of what will happen, when and where are still sketchy but basically we have…
At the beginning, I thought that by now I might be wanting to stop wandering and settle again. Nope. I’m not thinking of settling again just yet. It’s working. It’s working for me, it’s working for the people closest to me. I don’t hear anyone saying “please, stay here and do this thing”. There are…
I went along to #brewcamp last night in Walsall. It was lovely, I got to hear about the amazing open spaces and wildlife in and around Walsall from Morgan Bowers and Mark Blackstock's story of growing a local aggregator which confirming that people come back to places that send them away. As this was a local government…
One of the great things about putting this work in front of a wider audience is that people are engaging with it who don't already know me, like me, understand what I'm doing, get the way that I work. That means I have to keep explaining it from different perspectives and not only does that…