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Talking about the social web
I’m talking to some lovely folk at a top-secret location somewhere in the North-West of England. We’re talking about the social web and how they might use it. This blogpost is an example. While I’m writing this they are all sitting quietly and I’m also uploading some pictures to flickr. I’m showing them how I…
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To Bicester Village
I spent this afternoon at Bicester Village, the Disneyland High Street of outlet stores in Oxfordshire. Equal parts weird and fascinating. Most frequently overheard was “darling, can I get you this sweater/bag/pair of shoes for Christmas?” You know, the sorts of people for whom all shopping from mid-October on is a part of Christmas shopping….
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Unlocking the see-saw
That was the title of the VRM shindig today. It was fun and interesting and stimulating. I left ready to do something. I don’t think my coding teeth are strong enough to join in with that bit, but some more co-ordinated and detailed requirements analysis or user testing would suit me fine. I did a…
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The Importance of People and Real Things
I’ve spent the morning realising that thinking about people is quite unusual, I mean real people, not people as consumers, community members, entrepreneurs or employees. I’m not saying that the guys I listened to this morning aren’t thinking about them, just that the stories we’re telling are still more about technology than about what people…
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Fatherhood
Another typical Sunday night with the Davises. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9iCiYmS7rg] My daughter, Rose, 15, sourced the music, devised, directed, shot, edited, uploaded and annotated this in less than an hour – all I did was dance around like a dickhead.
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Glimpsing Obama
On Saturday, I was at Victoria station on my way to somewhere else and I saw on Twitter that Barack Obama was just about to arrive at Downing Street to meet Gordon Brown. I decided to take a detour on the no. 24 to check it out – having seen the pictures in Berlin, I…
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Clay Shirky at Demos
Thanks to France being all quatorze juillet yesterday, we got the benefit of Clay Shirky’s wit and wisdom over lunchtime at Demos. Although the first few minutes were “Previously on ‘Here Comes Every Body’”, as you’d expect in a session chaired by Paul Miller at the lefty think-tank there was much focus on the use…
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Videoblog Masterclass – Using video as a social technology
I thought I’d write about the stuff I took to my videoblogging masterclass last week. I’d like to repeat the process with other clients – and maybe a public one – it worked well in a small group of communications specialists and people from lines of business. I’d have liked to have done it all…
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Tim Berners-Lee on web science.
Just a snippet. Cross not to have power supply. Sir Tim says something to the effect of: People doing interesting things fall between stools. The web has to be thought of as humanity connected, rather than an interconnection of computer systems. And you have to remember it’s big, very big and it’s complex. It’s not…