I can't remember whether I've mentioned it here, but I've just started working with Dan Thompson and Sophie Collard on a project that initially was called #futurecleanup – here they are talking about it. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/30516183 w=500&h=283] Since then we chose to rename the project #wewillgather to make it clear that it wasn't just about…
Here's a quick idea inspired by a bit of my conversation with Matt Edgar whom I met this morning thanks to a twitter shout out from @Deirdre. We were talking about mobile apps like instagram and the problem with them being tightly coupled, so you can't easily get at bits of the data, and link to…
I've been on the road for eleven months now. And as the anniversary approaches and I'm more and more able to say "I've been doing this almost a year" the reactions of others (and my own feelings) have moved from "Yikes! That's scary" to "OK, so it seems to work for you, that's interesting". One…
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I'm trying to write about this, but I keep seeing films that I haven't watched yet and am getting lost in the joy and excitement of it all. I just saw this and nearly wet myself… [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/41362455 w=400&h=300] There was a launch event at the BFI Southbank last night and we got to see…
I just wrote my first Storify based on a trivial interaction we had today deciding who would go to a meeting. So I thought I'd try embedding it over here… [View the story “Open decision-making” on Storify]
I had a frustrating episode the other day trying to work out a three-way journey round Birmingham. I wanted to know how to get to a given address by bus from the city centre. In fact, what I'd have really liked would have been to know what the best journey was from where I was…
I find myself in Birmingham for a couple of days (16th & 17th April), with the wherewithal to create a popup cinema to show some films from the British Council Collection. I'm based in B30, but can come anywhere in Brum that's easily accessible by public transport. Give me a shout on 07919182825 if you'd…
I scribbled this diagram in a notebook while on the train sometime ago and have been waiting to find the time to install a drawing package to make it prettier (I found dia – it just works!). It's a gross simplification, but sometimes you have to take things up a level to see what's really…
Some (actually many) years ago I was working as an Information Manager at the Audit Commission. I became increasingly frustrated by the difficulty of joining up data across, the organisation. There were loads of opportunities to add more value to what we were doing by taking data collected in different contexts and telling stories based…