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…
Do you understand what I’m doing at the moment? I mean, beyond the material thing that I’ve given up my flat and am on the road living and working with people as required, being useful and moving on. No, neither do I. Except it seems to have something to do with living differently, with experiencing…
IndieGoGo has the concept of Perks – incentives for people to contribute, these might be simply emotional: "We'll love you forever and you'll feel warm and fuzzy"; they might entitle donors to access to early product "Get a DVD of the rough-cut of our movie"; or something else connected with the project, t-shirts, high-res images,…
Podcasts for Educational use 1 teacher and two university lecturers in the room. Mmmmmm.. Technologies challenge traditional ways of transmitting knowledge. Last October, he’d just got into podcasting. A friend had a big contract with a south london borough for remedial education. The borough decided they had too many unemployed uneducated kids. So they got…
I’m in Nottingham (right now in the @fibrecamp basement studio at Lacemarket House – very chilled and lovely) and staying in town at least until tomorrow. I’m aiming to be back in London for Wednesday afternoon, I’ve a couple of things I want to do, I’m hoping to get to see Hugh MacLeod on Wednesday…
I’m very honoured that Suw has asked me to contribute to her “panel” in Berlin on the tech gender gap (taking place on the Thursday afternoon). Here’s the description: “It is undeniably true that there aren’t enough women in tech, that women are not well represented at conferences, and often don’t get the promotions, rewards…