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Just heard another pitch for a hamster-wheel business. “We want to let people organise their stuff” translates to “We want to sell advertising space to brands and a ‘service’ to people who want to sign up for ‘information’ about a bunch of brands while organising their stuff”. Confusion still reigns about who the real customer…

I’ve been working in a variety of ways at the Centre for Creative Collaboration for more than a year now.  My trip to America gave me an opportunity to reflect on what I’ve learned with others in the course of that year.  Whenever I told people about the Centre, they were very interested in what…

I was always told “You don’t go looking in ladies’ handbags, you never know what you might find” which seemed more of a temptation to me than a discouragement. And in that spirit, today I’m going to open up my one-man social media empire bag and let you know exactly what’s in it. First an…

Over the weekend I really enjoyed watching @sizemore and some chums making a sci-fi short in 48 hours for the Sci Fi London Film Festival 48 hours competition.  I was even more impressed when I saw what they came up with. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/21914737 w=500&h=283]  Mike opened up to questions on his blog and I asked about…

On the first day I was in San Francisco I was advised “You need to give people more time to help you”. One of the key bits of character building in this trip has been letting go of impatience, allowing things to happen in their own time.   Allowing the route to unfold in its…

One of my most consistent creative blocks is thinking about how what I’m making is going to be received.  I can go round and round in circles in my head for ages worrying about this or that. (Btw it’s one of the reasons I try to write longhand and then type-up rather than type straight…