100 posts I’m sure I’ve written, but can’t for the life of me find anywhere 1.On gratitude for Kettle Chips 2.On gratitude for escalators 3.On being an attractive man in middle age 4.On having man breasts 5.On Coffee Republic vs Starbucks 6.On having days when I’m particularly sensitive to smell 7.On fear of being bitten…
I’m increasingly distracted today by a conversation that’s been going on a few cubicles away (I use a serviced office with lots of hotdesks) about e-mail marketing. They’ve been going on and on about the ways you can get round spam-filters and make sure you get through to people; fooling people into opting-in to stuff…
COLLAR – is an idea right now that I want to turn into a real place – not simply a conceptual space or an online/virtual space, although it can’t escape being those too. But a real space that people can physically come together in to talk and learn and teach each other about the current…
The Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government has produced some research on it’s I&DeA knowledge site (Grrrr…annoying need to register to get at the goodies) about Communications functions in local councils. I skimmed one on core competencies and one on who should run the website before getting a bit antsy – neither of them…
In the first issue of Global Knowledge Review, the ultra-cool Lilia Efimova (Mathemagenic) writes about her irritation with the dominance of tree models in knowledge and information management and provides a great reference to Christopher Alexander on organic city design. This is the corollory (sp? – other side anyway) of the challenge we faced at…
I’m drawn to the idea of some explanatory statement for people I’ve never met or spoken too this intimately. Now, I’ve read some darned good manifestos in my time: Marx & Engels set me on fire as a teenager, Cluetrain turned my understanding of the world upside-down and encouraged me to leave the “security” of…
My close friends are becoming tired of hearing about me taking the whole of August off from work to just be – be dad, be husband, be me. But it did me the power of good and helped me remember several things that I tend to forget when back in super-money-making-machine mode. The world really…