What I’m doing

Originally posted on Centre for Creative Collaboration – blog

Well it didn’t come as a great surprise but I got confirmation yesterday that my panel about Tuttle2Texas (last year’s trip) has not been accepted in the (pretty much) final round of selection for the South By South West Interactive Festival. I don’t know the reason it wasn’t selected.  Obviously with the large numbers of…

Originally posted on Centre for Creative Collaboration – blog

I had a chat at #tuttle with Al Robertson about incorporating some sort of racing element to the trip.  He suggested instead of racing people to pit myself perhaps against some moleskins, USB sticks or other storage devices that could be passed on from person to person completely independent of my trip. Hurrah (yet again)…

So let’s get one thing straight, kids. Thirty years ago today, on 8th December 1980, it was not cool to like John Lennon, it was not cool to like The Beatles. In what we had in place of iTunes back then, the record department in Preedy’s in the High Street, where I went every week…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/nDrXaHsPRtA] This was the first Pro bout on the card – over in less than a minute.  I didn’t catch how old Neil was but he looks like a kid to me and he didn’t seem to stand a chance.  This is the kind of experience Nick may have.  Or maybe he’ll last longer.  Maybe…

So now that I’ve stripped this trip right down, I’m starting to bring in a bit more complexity. And this morning I was thinking introducing the idea of racing someone.  Or more than one.  How about it? How about we choose a mutual starting point on the West Coast and pledge to attempt to meet…

These are the cafes that seem to be going on regularly in the UK.  Realistically I think I’m unlikely to get around to any before Christmas, so I’m looking at dates in the new year.  If you run one of these and I don’t know you well already, or if you’re doing one somewhere else,…