Sometimes I don’t really know what I think until I write it down and show it to other people. That’s what happened with my blogpost yesterday – I realised how little I really had decided about this and how much more there was to define. One thing is to get thinking about what social artists…
As I’m here a lot, I thought it might be nice to shake the Tuttle crowd up a little while making it more accessible to Shoreditch/Tech City types. So we’ll be in the Barbican foyer every Friday in August, just turn up and have coffee (there’s a Costa here) and chat – same format as…
I have a residency for the rest of August at Hack The Barbican which is a month-long experiment in creative collaboration in the public spaces of the Barbican Centre – the hashtag for the whole thing is #HTB2013. The aim of the group as a whole is to make the most of the mix of…
Wait! What is this, Google Mail? Another helpful inbox redesign to enhance my productivity? Why thank you so much! Or maybe this one will be just as “useful” as those weird yellow labels with chevrons in them. A gentle reminder to me every morning that you can read my mail and arrange it however makes…
TL;DR there’s some debate about how we might make the annual barcamp for public-service types even better. I have some opinions… For those who don’t know… This is my first contribution to a debate that I first saw starting on Friday morning about how to do UKGovCamp better. UKGovCamp is the annual big unconference for…
I took part in a session at the Living Streets Supporters Conference today to talk about #wewillgather, organizing without organizations and generally using twitter and social media for hyperlocal campaigning and activism. I recorded the session and include it here so that I know where to find it later and also so I’ve a link…
I have downloaded a number of my posterous blogs and they’ve been sitting there looking at me. I also made a resolution recently to get as much of my stuff together under lloyddavis.co.uk. That meant some faffing with domain registrations, hosting and DNS but I finally got that sorted out last week. I made a…
I’m always tempted to stay overnight, but I’ve never actually done it. I may not have slept perfectly last night anyway, but I’m sure it was better than lying on a corporate head office meeting room floor. People did come to my early morning session on “the future of blogging?” despite being up against an…
I missed doing any sort of participant intros, it’s a good way to set up the day and it does more to make people feel part of the organisation than any amount of telling them that it’s all about them. I confirmed for myself that I understand github well enough to use it (I thought…
I gave people the lowdown on why we’re doing it, what we’re doing, how far we’ve got, what we need now: why we’re doing it The Barbican Centre approached Charles Armstrong to produce something for the month of August while the concert hall and theatre space are being refurbished. Charles sensibly asked some of his…