I’ve been here a year but I’ve been neglecting you a bit. Where? Well, to most people I say “Wandsworth, just by the bridge”. For those who drive around South London, you know by Wandsworth Bridge there’s a drive-thru McDonalds? By there. Party people will know it as “just by The Ship”. People who work…
These are rough, not even half-baked thoughts on the Monday after the month before. Like anything not properly cooked through, munching on them quickly or unconsciously may give you a tummy-ache. Take it (and my mixed metaphors) with a pinch of salt. I reserve the right to change my mind about all of this later…
Tabs left open after Tuttle today, ie things I looked at or showed people. Bromsgrove Silver Jubilee Parade (video 3 mins) Barbican 1969 (video 20 mins) The Garner Innovation/Hype Cycle (image) In Business: Regenerating Margate (iplayer audio 30 mins) FreakyTrigger (website) Bob Dylan’s bait & switch Unmoored (website) ArtAngel (website) Joanna Zylinska (biog) Bachelard (wikipedia)…
I love writing and editing in Fargo. It really works for me to organise my thinking this way. I’ve been posting to my wordpress.com blog through Fargo since the gateway was introduced. I like that too, no more messing with all the bells and whistles of the wordpress interface, just the clean writing window and…
I got a bit distracted there with housekeeping/community stuff. Back to the thing I was thinking about business model frameworks. If you’re not familiar with my work (or even if you are but you’re not sure what I’m talking about) then have a poke around this bunch of links. So for me, the bit that…
The “tragedy of the commons” is a metaphor used to describe (according to Wikipedia) “the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one’s self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group’s long-term best interests”. I noticed it creeping in at the Barbican yesterday for…
The public wifi access at The Barbican is provided by “The Cloud” which was acquired by BSkyB in January 2011. BSkyB is 39% owned by 21st Century Fox (previously part of News Corporation) whose Chairman and CEO is Rupert Murdoch. Since seeing the kerfuffle about City recycling bins (now no longer) tracking smartphones, I’ve been…
Yesterday at Tuttle (in the Barbican) David and I had a conversation, which I then carried on with Tony about the similarities between the growth dynamics in co-working spaces and gentrification in urban environments (first the penniless artists move in because it’s the only place they can afford, they make the area attractive and then…
I’m a bit dazed this morning by news from my friends Neal & Kathy in Maine that Kathy needed emergency surgery last week and that they’ll likely face a $50,000 bill (without insurance – they have a farm and food business out in the wilds). I know what the healthcare situation is in the US…
Yesterday I gave myself a little time to muck about. I saw Dan tweet about a collaborative google map about “Water Infrastructure Collapse”. I had a look and got the general idea to highlight instances where the infrastructure isn’t working. I’ve been interested in the concept of the mostly-invisible infrastructure stack since listening to Vinay…