10/11/2009

I lost my ability to restrain pen and tongue on twitter this morning.  I apologize to anyone upset by it. I hate being in this position. I’m embarrassed, ashamed, tired, disappointed, bored, desperately bored with being the nice guy who everyone respects and admires but who is puzzlingly incapable of generating regular revenue and looking…

I’m at the Novotel in Hammersmith at the Unicom conference on Social Tools and their business applications. This morning we heard from Euan Semple, Lee Bryant and Sarah Prag from the BBC. Up now is Duncan Brown from Influencer 50 talking about the influence of blogs. I’m on first thing tomorrow morning, talking about building…

I applied for a job a week or so ago (I know!) As part of that I had to update my CV.  I’ve become a bit stupid about that, thinking I somehow didn’t need a CV, that my Linked-in profile was good enough, given I’m a forward-thinking social web geezer. Stupid, not only because you…

In In The Absence Of The Sacred (1991), Jerry Mander wrote: “The corporation is not as subject to human control as most people believe it is; rather, it is an autonomous technical structure that behaves by a system of logic uniquely well suited to its primary function: to give birth and impetus to profitable new technological…

Podsafe Music Network In the break, promo from Roger Smalls. Mark does the tartanpodcast – what do you hang on a wall? Wallpaper & a picture – art (and tony blair) no doubt we’ll hear in a minute what that was all about. 4th out of 1800 music podcasts on podcastalley.com. Listen to music podcasts…

Tremendous bits of support coming in that I'll be able to talk about once they're confirmed.  However, while this is really really welcome, there's been much more response to help with kit than with direct cash support (to cover my overhead back here, some travel costs and contingency for daily subsistence).   I'm putting up…