This started out simply as a post highlighting a slightly charming picture of my mother walking at Alton Towers, with her mother, and sticking her tongue out at the camera (held by my father, I presume). But looking at it in flickr and thinking about the people involved got me into thoughts about tagging and…
So in the previous post I went on (and on) about relationships online and off-. The next point is that we seem to have grown up with a prejudice that online relationships are “not as real” or “not as good” as those we create offline. While I am prone to this myself, when I think…
David Lynch wants kids to learn TM in schools – I wish I could embed this, but I’ll have to send you via a link instead. . (disclosure, this vid was shot for friction.tv by my erstwhile partner in crime Debbie Davies – how *does* she find them?) Anyway, puts me in mind of this……
Really enjoying “pre-alpha” access to seesmic.com the new kid on the lifestream block courtesy of Loïc LeMeur. It’s a closed group for the time being and feels nicely diverse and international which makes a good change from the usual West Coast dominance. Halley Suitt’s french cracks me up as much as it did at the…
It seems that London’s opera critics think that Sally Potter’s Carmen is, well, a bit crap. I can’t comment, I haven’t seen it yet – but I still love the blogging and videoblogging over on the ENO’s mini-site. A couple of the critics have been a bit sneery about the whole 2.0 angle on this…
Well, more like I have some compassion for him – but “I have compassion for the fool” sounds like something Martin in the Simpsons would get punched for saying (more Simpsons later). I went to the Frontline Club last night, actually, thanks Euan for reminding me that I *paid* to go to the Frontline Club…
Sorry for using his shock tactics to grab your attention, but as I rode home from listening to the troll, Andrew Keen, I realised there was something I could agree with him on: He says Web2.0 is just a mirror for our culture and society. I see a new-found confidence, optimism and freedom. I see…
Still musing on the fear of “dark forces”, “bad people”, shifts in power, and similar trivia. In sorting out the Podcast Archive I listened again to Johnnie at “Blogging, A Real Conversation” from 2 years ago. He started with something like this video (though we didn’t have Youtube in them days). [youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZHZHNByCs] Johnnie used it…
One of Dave Winer‘s best bits of advice is “zag to their zig” and that’s what I’m trying to do with the Café. Just when it seems that *everyone* in the entire world is getting into online social networking, I want to open a coffee shop and help people meet each other face to face….
I just created an archive page for podcasts stretching back to the beginning of 2005. I’m a little shocked at how many I did – it was a bit obsessive at times wasn’t it? 🙂 I can’t find a copy of the very first one from 31/12/04 or the pre-podwalk podwalk so if you’ve got…