Write the date at the top of the page and then get on with the day. Because I’m playing with feed readers, I subscribed to the Flickr feed for photos tagged with my name.  I thought I’d just subscribed to my photos, but I think I was also subscribed to new tags already.  Anyway.  A…

Blogging on the train like it’s 2008. One of my favourite AA sayings is something like “people don’t fail at this programme because they’re too stupid, but some do fail because they’re too clever!”  I find this “game of life” to be like that, whatever you’re playing at right now and whether it feels like…

In his newsletter Dave points to Duncan Brown talking about bookings as an example of what he calls “design by cliché”.  It’s an interesting idea, but in the case of bookings, I don’t think that being a ‘cliché’ is the problem.   It’s more that the reason all these things are called bookings is that once…

I heard someone on a call the other day saying “I’ve just heard of this thing called Personal Knowledge Management or PKM” which reminded me that: “Every day somebody’s born who’s never seen the Flintstones“ But seriously, it got me digging into when I first mentioned PKM on this blog.  And of course it was…

I went down to Weymouth for a couple of days this week to see my mum.  On Tuesday we drove over to Lulworth Cove for a coffee, picnic lunch on the beach and an ice cream. The first time (maybe) we went there was Easter 1973.  It was quieter than Autumn half-term 2025, the parking…

It seems that seventeen years ago today, I was in Berlin at the Web 2.0 Expo.   Andrea Vascellari got some video of me asking Tim O’Reilly a question about online/offline relationships.  In retrospect, there’s a lot of naivety and privilege in the air. I noted: the stories we’re telling are still more about technology than…

I spent a couple of summers in the early eighties selling ice cream, chatting up the odd grockle and looking out over the sea to Portland. The other stream that I take to when I need to calm down a bit is NASA’s HD Views from the International Space Station Recent conversations about “the media”,…

I'm taking part in a reading group for "Hospicing Modernity" with a particular focus on how the messages in that book might apply to churches and spiritual community. We're gathering once a month and the meetings are confidential (I don't think we've even agreed on using the Chatham House rule) but I'm only going to…

I'm glad to see that at least Dave B is reading this nonsense.  I didn't get a pingback, though Dave, I saw it because I read your post via RSS.  Is that deliberate?  I don't remember how these things work. Maybe it's an artefact of the way your microposts are aggregated?   Anyway. I agree with the…

I just sat for five minutes waiting for a call to start that isn't scheduled for another hour.  That's the kind of me I've woken up with today! Happity Friday! Still pondering and burbling about rebooting/regrowing and this thing that to some is a living culture, to some is a media ecosystem, and to others…