10/11/2009

Someone needs to say they’re going to show up for it. That’s what makes stuff happen. Lots of other important things help too, but it really kicks off when someone says “I’m going to be there or do this, no really, I am, I don’t care if nobody else does, I am.” That’s what makes…

I really liked posterous.com  It was a great way to create collaborative blogs and an easy way to get people contributing to a blog who didn’t like the idea that they were “blogging” but didn’t mind sending an e-mail or two. I used it particularly pleasingly for a couple of applications: Most Interesting, which allows…

I scribbled this diagram in a notebook while on the train sometime ago and have been waiting to find the time to install a drawing package to make it prettier (I found dia – it just works!).  It's a gross simplification, but sometimes you have to take things up a level to see what's really…

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…

Here's a quick idea inspired by a bit of my conversation with Matt Edgar whom I met this morning thanks to a twitter shout out from @Deirdre. We were talking about mobile apps like instagram and the problem with them being tightly coupled, so you can't easily get at bits of the data, and link to…