church bells catch me out trying to record them :)

Finding it hard to concentrate – I have a stiff neck and a headache (bloody french food) and I’m struggling to keep up with the backchannel, the panel speakers and my own brain – now Loic just put up the pictures of Adriana shooting in Pennsylvania so I’m giving up on even trying to pay…

The structure of documents and the difficulty of representing them in computing. How can electronic documents improve on paper, rather than how simply to imitate it. The History of computing – three dumb downs and a betrayal, Fire in the Valley, Freiburger especially the last chapter (Citizen Nelson) The betrayal of Personal Computing – should…

So first stop is definitely Glasgow.  I’ve booked a train ticket.  Otherwise today I’m mostly discarding things that no longer serve me…  Plus The two-day open-house creative jam that Martyn had suggested has morphed through our patented process of conversation, reflection and further conversation 😉 into a project to record an album of new and…

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…

A couple of things in my stream this morning about using newly liberated data: Hadley pointing to Jo Ivens’s piece “Open data: we can’t just rely on developers” for demsoc.org “I am a policy type who cares about social justice and believes that the voluntary and social enterprise sectors can have a central role in…

Get a US SIM card – last year I got one from T-mobile that was easy to cancel after a month and gave me unlimited data for $50 – is that still available? Or is there something better? Go into the city, hang out, see at least one person I already know. Asked about coworking…