I’ve been trying to do this of late – I named my fargo blog with the phrase as a strapline. The idea is to just write freely instead of thinking about who’s reading and what they’re thinking. New bloggers often worry about who’s going to read what they write. We remind them that actually it’s…
The most frequently asked question about #tuttle is: “Is it still going?” To which the answer is “Yes, still Fridays, still 10am-noon, still no agenda, currently on Level 5 at RFH” And. We operate on a much smaller pool of people, which means the possibility of more intimate conversation (I’ve had some doozies!), but also…
Pete Seeger visiting steel drum makers and players in Trinidad Moving Doctors I just got round to registering with a local doctor, five years after I left the area where I was previously registered. I know this is bad. I mean it’s good to put it right, but it’s bad that it’s taken me this long….
Dave and Lloyd chat about early blogging, deleting blogs, thinking about workflow, outlining, working with Fargo! and WordPress, interspersed with Lloyd’s cluelessness about the basic dangers of electricity. Download (45MB) “The interesting thing about Bank Holidays…” – Lloyd’s recap of his early blogging – The actual first (undeleted) post on Perfect Path – Dave Winer’s…
I often use Fargo to compose posts on my wordpress.com blog. But I’ve just seen a problem with formatting when you use the outline structuring for a list. Here’s a list: This item is at the top level of a list It has a sub-entry And another And this is the second item in the…
I’ve always hated writing CVs. I could never convey the interest and excitement of work that I had done compressed into a sentence or two, written in the third person or the passive voice. It also seemed that it was always too much about me. When I looked at the work that I had done…
I’ve just seen that qik.com is finally going down. I did some work to download my videos last year soon after blip.tv torched my stuff. I’m ashamed to say that I don’t seem to have documented the process. If I find anything, I’ll post it, but it went something like this – if you have…
I ran an unconference session at a conference for Housing Tenant Engagement people last week. Dave and I touched on it in our latest podcast – he asked me how it had gone, how it worked in a situation where people hadn’t chosen specially to come to an open space, when they’d been there solely…
Download 40MB Lloyd and Dave talk about social capital in the context of unconferences. Lloyd’s first unconference? BarcampUKGovWeb Lloyd pointing at the cool for Jeremy Gould in 2008 What used to happen on seesmic Open Space Technology Users Guide Johnnie Moore Lloyd on LocalGovCampGate Dave on LocalGovCampGate John Locke’s Labour Theory of Property London Social…
I haven’t dug deeply for other bits of the story, but you’ll get a feel for what this is all about looking at posts from Dave Briggs and Sarah Lay. I used a rude word on Twitter about it and raised the hackles of the pious. What can I say? I can rarely resist a…