Potential – remember that? I wrote about potential during 2gether08, about the huge potential that builds up at events where we all get together, about how intoxicating it is, and interesting to see what happens to fulfill that potential – it’s not always obvious, the links are not always clear. I’d like to really do…
Thanks to Tim Davies in the comments of “No to Quotas” for helping me see why I’m getting worked up about this one. Where is the problem that we’re trying to solve here? The problem with Innovation Edge wasn’t that the wrong people turned up. It wasn’t that certain groups or parts of society weren’t…
There have been a couple of times in the last week or so when quotas have been suggested for solving a problem of “fairness”. They were brought up at the Tuttle discussion about Amplified08 in the context of deciding which networks should be represented at this network of networks forum and again during the panel…
John Naish, talking at the opening of 2gether08 used the term infobesity to sum up what he was saying about our addictive need to ‘consume’ more and more information. In the work session I ran, Leon Benjamin described organisational dependency on hierarchy as being as difficult to get rid of as a heroin addiction. We…
[the title by the way will probably only mean something to travellers on the Great Western Railway] Suw just commented on my tuttle post on open spaces that we might have a book-reading session, which reminds me that I was talking to Laura North the other day who is working on the National Year of…
Isn’t happiness weird? I often find myself being choosy about who to give it away to – but why would I withhold happiness from anyone? And anyway, the more I give away, the more I get back 🙂 Isn’t New Year weird? How did something that should be about innovation become so fixed in tradition?…
Charles Frith (one of my fave twitter buddies btw) writes about two types of people Cold War survivors who see the world as black and white, good and evil and behave guardedly online with spy-like pseudonyms and ‘Post-Coldies” who are more comfortable with a zillion shades of grey and who let it all hang out….
Thanks Rachel for tagging me. I’m not a very secretive person (you may have noticed) so this feels quite hard. I’m sorry if you’ve heard any of these before. 1. My nickname at middle school was BB which came about on a trip to France when I was sitting on a coach in tight jeans,…
I want to make clear that I don’t say the following from any position of superiority. People who know me well know how rude and controlling I can be when I don’t get my own way. But it occurs to me that working at Six Apart must be tough. Mena to Ben Metcalfe at Les…
I had a moment of clarity last week while holding an open space at Online. I hesitate to call it an “ah-ha” moment. It’s more of a “well….duuuhhh!” moment. Hold Tight! All organisations have formal systems and informal systems. You know the formal bits because formal usually means explicit – the org structure diagram, job…