I’m really pleased that one of the few bits of “proper” work I’m doing in the next couple of weeks is to MC the Community Day for my friends at Learning Pool next Wednesday (14th). I caught the tail end of a similar event last year and wished I’d been there for longer. I’m very…
I wrote this while attending Uncivilisation a couple of weeks ago. It became clear to me that uncivilisation is an ongoing process, rather than a state of being. It’s a process of unlearning, removing complications and reversing out of evolutionary dead-ends. It’s about unticking boxes. It’s a process that I’ve been going through for about…
I’m in Bude, Cornwall and perhaps unlike much of the rest of the UK, it’s very much still summer here. When I poked my head out of the tent this morning, all I could see was mist and the sort of cloud that quickly gets burned off to reveal a glorious sun-shiney day. Hurrah! Pass…
I overheard the following side of a conversation on a train journey recently. I’ve replaced the names with initials, though it’s highly unlikely that even with names intact the people in this situation would be directly recognisable. Nonetheless, I can recognise the situation from my own experience and I imagine that anyone who’s spent…
Our public conversations are of one kind mostly. We only know how to debate. The peoplle who hold the levers of power are those who are well-skilled in presenting a case, presenting an incontrovertable argument. They were the kids who succeeded in the debating society who learned to argue for or against something regardless of…
It’s interesting to me how many times the same questions come up as I hobo my way around. I thought I’d do a series of posts answering some of them. “So, when are you coming back?” This one reveals an assumption about what I’m doing, that it’s a thing, it’s a project, it had a…
I’ve got a cold, or something after a weekend in the woods at the Dark Mountain Festival. This is highly unusual for me but I’m sure it’ll be gone after a day sleeping it off… I need some help sorting out this week please. I’m going to be in London all day on Tuesday. Then…
Very bad at blogging lately. Just want to let folk know who don’t follow twitter and haven’t seen me that everything is going brilliantly. It’s working for me and all my hosts as far as i can tell. I’m going to be in birmingham early next week and still working on being in leeds soon…
That had I been Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch or Rebekah Brooks, I would have known everything that was going on in my media empire and no wrong doing would ever have happened “on my watch”. I would have created a culture of honesty, transparency and respect for the law at all times. Likewise, If I…
“Drag people to your circles to follow and share” No! too much hassle. Give me a simpler way to categorize people – I’ve got 500 people sitting in my “Find and invite” list and 400 who’ve already added me. Do I really have to drag and drop each one? Is this the best interface they…